IRAQ: Iraq announced this week that work has begun to excavate a sinkhole that the so-called Islamic State (IS) is believed ...

Famine has been confirmed in parts of Gaza for the first time since the beginning of Israel’s 22-month war on the Palestinian ...

Conflict First person 21 August 2025 Will we ever return? Facing down Israel’s invasion of Gaza City Flee to an uncertain fate of potentially permanent displacement or stay and risk death. This is the ...

A secret meeting with the GHF has fuelled fears that the humanitarian system is being bent to serve the interests of the ...

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A lack of administrative recognition means Mogadishu’s growing informal settlements are deprived of government services.

Humanitarian endeavour must urgently shift from operating in a land of ineffective illegitimacy to one of responsible ...

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