The UN has blown the whistle on “widespread and systematic” food aid diversion in Somalia, triggering the suspension of EU funding to the World Food Programme, and generating lurid headlines about the theft of aid meant for the starving. The donor reaction is understandable – yet...
Insufficient progress towards climate goals is slowing down the global fight against poverty, hunger and deadly diseases, according to a report released on Thursday by the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO)....
More than 50,000 refugees have arrived in Armenia from the Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and their number is increasing “by the hour”, UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said on Thursday....
What does life look like in northeast Libya after catastrophic flooding killed thousands of people? Find out for yourself with this weekly view from a photographer on the ground in Derna, a city that lost entire families and neighbourhoods when two dams burst after a storm...
Ali Latifi:Today on What’s Unsaid: The preventable trauma of humanitarians Imogen Wall:The primary stressor for most aid workers is not what they witnessed and experienced. It's the way that organizations are run and managed. Latifi:This is What’s Unsaid, a new bi-weekly podcast by The New Humanitarian where...
With record numbers of people transiting through Central America and Mexico in search of a better life further north, UN migration agency IOM on Wednesday appealed for regional action to address their immediate needs while tackling the drivers of migration....
Morocco was hit hard by the earthquake in the evening of September 8th, and has been scrambling to organise rescue and first aid operations to the affected areas since – notably the hard-to-reach and most badly hit villages of the Atlas mountains. On Monday 11 September,...
The fundamental dispute between Pakistan and Afghanistan is about their shared border, also known as the Durand Line, established by the British through the Durand Line agreement with Afghanistan in 1893. While Pakistan accepts it as an established international boundary, Afghanistan has yet to officially...
MPI Europe Associate Director Camille Le Coz discusses migration dynamics in West Africa and and how African leaders are responding to these trends with Leander Kandilige, a senior lecturer at the Centre for Migration Studies at the University of Ghana. ...