Sudan: Women and Girls Fleeing El Fasher Describe Widespread RSF Sexual Violence

"Each time, a group would arrive in military vehicles, take us to a room, and rape us violently before leaving." Read more »

Kenya: 'The Weight We Carry'

Poems from Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp Read more »

Rwanda: UN Faces Scrutiny Over Refugee Transfers From Rebel-Held DR Congo to Rwanda

"It was brutal like you wouldn't believe." Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania Election Killings - Outcry and Calls for International Investigations

"As Tanzanians, we are going to reclaim our country. Whoever wants to support us needs to know that." Read more »

Kenya: Why It's a Bad Idea to Triage Refugee Food Aid When Everyone's Hungry

"I am going to pick a rope and hang myself to death." Read more »

Sudan: From Exile, I Watched El Fasher Fall - and My Family Fight to Survive

"There is a particular cruelty to safety when your family is dying." Read more »

Sudan: Pay Up or Be Executed - El Fasher Survivors Speak of Kidnappings and Mass Killings

"We left with nothing. Even water and food were thrown to the ground." Read more »

Sudan: An Atrocity Foretold - How the RSF Siege of El Fasher Turned Into Genocidal Slaughter

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale. Read more »

Kenya: Raila Odinga and the Politics of Power

Predicating change on capturing power makes politics a zero-sum game. Read more »

Kenya: Dadaab Refugees Decry Divisive and Unfair Food Aid Cuts

"We do not accept to be divided and made to turn on each other." Read more »

Sudan: Sudan's Displaced Are in Homes, Not Just Camps - and Aid Keeps Missing Them

"We must stop searching for a crisis that fits existing models and start designing responses that fit the crisis we actually have." Read more »

Sudan: Those Responsible for Sudan's War Have No Business Being Involved in the Peace

The war is now deemed responsible for the deaths of up to 150,000 people in mass casualty incidents and of over 500,000 people due to hunger. Read more »

Somalia: The Diaspora Lifeline That Helps Keep Somali Families Afloat

"When things like droughts happen, the diaspora tends to step up, even though many people here are having more economic difficulties than ever before." Read more »

Somalia: Al-Shabab's Shadow State - Why Somalia's Militants Are Winning Legitimacy

Privately, representatives of humanitarian and development organisations often confide that al-Shabab would be a more efficient partner than the federal government. Read more »

South Sudan: Who Is the White Army, the Militia At the Centre of Renewed Conflict in South Sudan?

"What we want is for the community to live peacefully." Read more »

Niger: Niger Arrests Six Sudanese Refugees in Raid On Agadez Camp

"They took 6 of our strongest voices." Read more »

Kenya: Cut to the Bone - the Cost of Ration Cuts and Delivery Delays in Kenya's Refugee Camps

It is almost impossible to survive on so little. Hunger is now widespread. Read more »

Somalia: Weak State and Clan Politics Leave Somalia's Urban Displaced in Limbo

"Nearly everyone here has been displaced from different parts of the country, but we all have one thing in common - no one can return home." Read more »

Kenya: Refugee Entrepreneurs in Kenya's Kakuma Camp Struggle to Survive Aid Cuts

"We're trying really hard to survive, but these efforts are not always paying off." Read more »

Ethiopia: I Don't Want to Fight Again in Another Tigray War

Worst of it all is the prospect of seeing Tigrayans killing other Tigrayans. The last war was terrible, but at least we were united. At least we had a cause. Read more »

Ethiopia: Silence Over Sexual Violence in Ethiopia Enables Yet More Abuse, Says Report

"Rape culture is being normalised." Read more »

Uganda: Grassroots Groups in Uganda Are Keeping GBV Services Going Despite the Cuts

"We are not doctors or therapists. But we listen. We show up. That's what we can offer." Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Flagship Refugee Integration Plan Runs Into Local Opposition

"Give us quality and accessible health care, good schools, markets, roads, and guarantee our security - then we can talk about integration." Read more »

Sudan: I Will Never Find Home - a Sudanese Photographer's Wartime Journey

A story of displacement, belonging, and a past that won't let go. Read more »

Uganda: To Stay or Go? the Dilemma Confronting Uganda's Climate Displaced

"You cannot take someone who lives in highlands to flat land, from a rain-sufficient area that promotes agriculture to one that suffers flooding and drought." Read more »