‘It is a humanitarian crisis, but we don’t see any humanitarian response to it’ James Blake | Freelance journalist and analyst focusing on international security, counter-terrorism, humanitarian, and...
USA + 5 more
USA + 5 more
‘It is a humanitarian crisis, but we don’t see any humanitarian response to it’ James Blake | Freelance journalist and analyst focusing on international security, counter-terrorism, humanitarian, and...
Aron Lund | Freelance journalist and analyst specialising in Syria Violence has returned to northwestern Syria, as Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government pushes into rebel-controlled Idlib...
Hisham al-Omeisy Nearly six months after a much-publicised deal was made in Sweden to bring an end to four years of war and the resulting humanitarian crisis in Yemen, the UN now says Houthi fighters...
For Tutsis who survived the Rwanda genocide or watched as their loved ones were slaughtered or raped, reconciling with the Hutu attackers once seemed unimaginable. Today, however, reconciliation has...
‘My child should know what happened to his father’ Laurel Chor In Mannar, a sleepy town in northern Sri Lanka, a small construction site sits on a street corner next to stalls selling snacks, car...
DR Congo + 2 more
Emmanuel Freudenthal | Freelance journalist, and regular IRIN contributor Although Alsény Touré managed to escape the West African Ebola epidemic, the shadow of the disease still lingers over his...
'There’s no indication any of the parties are interested in genuine peace’ Sam Mednick Freelance journalist based in South Sudan Now that the implementation of South Sudan’s shaky peace agreement has...
By Paula Dupraz-Dobias After denying the existence of a humanitarian crisis for years and blocking foreign aid, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro struck an unexpected deal in March to allow the...
By Patrick Meinhardt At the centre of al-Sudd swamp, one of the world’s largest wetland areas, is Old Fangak, an isolated town that has become a haven for tens of thousands of people fleeing South...
‘There was no one coming to help me and my family… so I had to do something’ By Tendai Marima Freelance journalist based in southern Africa. Floodwaters from Cyclone Kenneth have receded, but damaged...
Libya + 1 more
By Francesca Mannochi and Alessio Romenzi Throughout the past month of violence that has gripped Libya’s capital, aid groups have repeatedly warned of the grave danger 3,400 migrants and refugees...
‘This is the last generation of our family to be farmers’ Maria de la Guardia, Mumbai-based multimedia journalist covering humanitarian and women’s issues. Facing the worst drought in decades, cattle...
Niger + 4 more
By Eric Reidy ‘The young men are leaving this place – this hell we’re living in.’ On 7 May 2018, Niger deported 135 Sudanese from the migration hub of Agadez back across the border to Libya in a move...
Editor's note This story is part of a video series exploring local aid on the front lines of crises. Watch the other videos in this series here. As temperatures rise in parched northern Kenya, local...
‘I used to have issues with people, but now I know how to handle them and don’t get into fights’ Lucinda Rouse, Senegal-based freelance journalist covering West Africa Liberia’s civil war began 20...
World + 1 more
They are ‘literally just taking a humanitarian activity and labelling it as a crime’ Eric Reidy, Freelance journalist and regular TNH contributor Early last August, Sarah Mardini sat on a balcony on...
‘There is no such thing as Ebola’ Vittoria Elliott, Freelance journalist When the recent Ebola outbreak erupted in the Democratic Republic of Congo more than eight months ago, rumour and distrust...
Kenya + 1 more
It’s lunchtime, and customers are streaming into Gilbert Munyeneza’s small café off one of the busy main streets of the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya. Read more on The New Humanitarian
Hunger and desperation are driving thousands of people out of a remote rebel-controlled camp near Syria’s border with Jordan, but the fate of those who have left – and what will become of those who...
Lebanon + 1 more
Maher Hamdan had to abandon his education when he became a refugee. Now he’s trying to make sure that younger Syrian refugees in Lebanon don’t have to do the same. There are nearly 500,000...