Kenya: Why I Came Back to Dadaab - a Different Kind of Refugee Return Story

'My life is worth more than this.' Read more »

Somalia: 'There's No Future in This IDP Camp' - Why Somalia's Crisis Needs a Rethink

'You need to start thinking of these informal settlements as permanent settlements - mini-cities.' Read more »

Sudan: War Has Destroyed My Darfur Town - but I Will Keep Fighting for Justice

'There was a feeling that we were going to die, that we had no chance to survive.' Read more »

South Sudan: A South Sudanese Returnee's Story, From Khartoum to Their Childhood Home

'If the government and NGOs can live up to their promises, then I would at least be able to start planning for the future.' Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia - a Dream for Many, a Nightmare for Many More

People are getting nervous Read more »

Sudan: How Mutual Aid Networks Are Powering Sudan's Humanitarian Response

'The beautiful thing is that we come together and spend time doing this.' Read more »

Kenya: Embracing Local Knowledge Is the Key to Resilience in Northern Kenya, Not Project Box-Ticking

'In the welter of jargon-heavy policy documents promoting 'resilience-building', the big question remains - what is 'resilience', and for whom?' Read more »

Ethiopia: Boom to Bust - Fallout of War and Drought Leaves Ethiopians Mired in Poverty

'What I have seen with my own eyes is a huge number of people starving and even dying.' Read more »

Sudan: Sudanese Aid Workers Face Hundreds of Job Losses

'Most of my colleagues are all displaced, they all lost their homes.' Read more »

South Sudan: Urgent Help Needed for Stranded South Sudanese Returnees

'The South Sudan government, aid agencies, and donors need to work together to urgently put an end to this deepening crisis.' Read more »

Sudan: Obstacles to Aid Pile Up As Sudan's Conflict Rages On

'There is power, authority, and financial incentives to control the delivery of aid.' Read more »

Sudan: Q&A - The Civil Servant Documenting Sexual Violence in Conflict

'I made a pact: It either ends me, or I have to live trying to end it.' Read more »

Ethiopia: Food Aid Freeze Leads to Suffering and Deaths in Tigray - Relief Official

'Our children are falling like leaves.' Read more »

Sudan: As Humanitarian Crisis Deepens, Donors Must Dig Deeper

'Sudan's war is barely two months old, yet international fatigue and neglect are already brewing.' Read more »

Burundi: In Burundi, Returning Refugees Face Mixed Fortunes

'Some decide to return to exile believing that they can find better things.' Read more »

Somalia: Aid Slow to Arrive for People in Northern Somalia Fleeing Las Anod Fighting

'The only thing we get is water, but there is no food.' Read more »

Ethiopia: U.S. Suspends Food Aid Over Theft

The US Agency for International Development has suspended all its food aid to Ethiopia over the discovery of "widespread and coordinated" theft, throwing the vital relief effort… Read more »

East Africa: Sudan Refugees Struggle to Exit to Ethiopia, While Aid Workers Trying to Enter Are Turned Back

'They started to question why I was leaving Sudan, and they accused me of not being Sudanese.' Read more »

Ethiopia: World Food Programme Leadership Resigns Amid Aid Diversion Probe, Sources Say

The agency's aid into Tigray has been suspended since an internal investigation - due to deliver its findings any day - was launched in May. Read more »

South Sudan: 'I See It As My Duty to Help for As Long As I Can' - Sudanese Volunteers On Supporting Hospitals and Opposing the War

'We are praying for relief and an end to the bloodshed.' Read more »

Chad: As New Conflict Unleashes Darfur's Old Demons, Those Who Can Flee to Chad

'If you have nothing to give them, they will kill you.' Read more »

Somalia: A Military Offensive Won't Solve Somalia's Humanitarian Crisis

'Aid primarily reaches regions where the government's authority has already been long established.' Read more »

Sudan: As Aid Efforts Ramp Up in Sudan, Local Groups Must Take Centre Stage

'We are facing this crisis on our own.' Read more »

Sudan: Local Ceasefires and Disrupted Aid - How Sudan's Conflict Is Impacting Darfur

'We are going to see tough days in many cities.' Read more »

Somalia: Why Somalia Is One of the Hardest Places in the World to Be a Journalist

'Women detainees held in a next-door cell whispered about the rapes they had experienced and passed me written notes with contact details of their families.' Read more »