South Sudan: 'The Whole Country Is Traumatised'

Decades of war left almost half the population with post-traumatic stress symptoms and little mental health care Read more »

Africa: Inside Efforts to Prevent a Regional Ebola Crisis in Central Africa

The current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the second deadliest in history, killing more than 400 people and infecting hundreds more. Its location in both… Read more »

Burkina Faso: In Eastern Burkina Faso, Local Grievances Help Militancy Take Root

"The country has never experienced what it is going through now" Read more »

East Africa: A 'Manufactured' Brexit Migrant Crisis Masks New Risks Ahead

Andrew Connelly Read more »

Sudan: Briefing - Sudanese Call for Bread and Freedom

"What we're seeing right now might not be the final chapter, but we are nearing the end" Read more »

South Sudan: Girls Forced Into War Face Gender Double Standards in Peace

Women and girls bear an additional burden in any war, as the threat of sexual violence or abuse combines with the standard risks of conflict. Read more »

Africa: Six Aid Policy Priorities to Watch in 2019

Not so much a crystal ball as a cracked Land Cruiser windshield: peering into the road ahead, here are six humanitarian issues to keep a close eye on in 2019. They're not all new -… Read more »

Africa: Ten Humanitarian Crises and Trends to Watch in 2019

These 10 crises and trends will help shape our coverage in 2019. Here's why they have our attention and should demand yours. Read more »

Africa: IRIN's 10 Most Popular Stories of 2018

From #AidToo and UN mismanagement to Cameroon and a siege in Syria Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Four Humanitarian Challenges for Congo's Next Leader

As elections to replace President Joseph Kabila in the Democratic Republic of Congo were reportedly postponed on Thursday, after a delay already of more than two years, a host of… Read more »

Africa: A Generation of Unschooled Cameroonians, Another Generation of Conflict?

"As we trekked, they kept on telling us that they don't want us to go to school again," says 15-year-old Martha Lum, four weeks after being released by the armed gunmen who… Read more »

Africa: 'A Common Concern for Humankind'

The United States and Hungary alone opposed the adoption on Monday in New York of a new global compact to strengthen international cooperation on large movements of refugees, help… Read more »

South Sudan: Peace On Paper

On the night of 15 December, 2013, shots rang out on the edge of South Sudan's capital where the elite presidential guard slept. Juba was already a tinderbox. This was the spark. Read more »

Africa: 'Nowhere to Go' On the Front Lines of Climate Change

In a report released this week during the UN climate change summit in Poland, the UN Environment Programme warned of a widening gap between the cost of adaptation in developing… Read more »

Africa: Briefing - the New Global Migration Pact

After a lead-up marred by vocal opposition and withdrawals of support, a landmark UN-led agreement aimed at forging cooperation to manage the estimated quarter of a billion people… Read more »

South Sudan: No Easy Road Out As South Sudan Marks Half a Decade of War

"There are tough, tough times ahead" Read more »

Africa: A New Normal in Humanitarian Aid - Treating Middle-Class Diseases

Treating undernourished children, boosting nutrition for pregnant women, and even providing a statistical basis for the term "famine" have all become routine parts of humanitarian… Read more »

Africa: Rebuilding Lives While Awaiting Peace in South Sudan

In her home village in South Sudan's Yei River state, Poni Beida, 32, farmed while caring for her husband and five young children. Read more »

Africa: New Italian Law Adds to Unofficial Clampdown On Aid to Asylum Seekers

"Hundreds have already been expelled from reception centres" Read more »

Central African Republic: War Crime Survivors Dare to Hope for Justice

It was two nights before Christmas in 2013 in a suburb of Bangui, the capital of Central African Republic. All Claire's grandchildren were gathered in her house, playing, seemingly… Read more »

Uganda: Audit Finds UN Refugee Agency Critically Mismanaged Donor Funds

Geneva, 28 November 2018 - The UN's refugee agency wasted tens of millions of dollars in Uganda in 2017, overpaying for goods and services, awarding major contracts improperly, and… Read more »

Mali: New Violence Eclipses Mali's Plans for Peace

A baby boy burnt alive in his mud-walled hut by a militia group. An elderly man killed by stray bullets as he returned home from a market. Villagers besieged by Islamist militants… Read more »

Burkina Faso: In Burkina Faso, a Local Drive to Educate Children Fleeing Extremist Violence

When nine-year-old twins Jan and Jannick started their new school term at the beginning of October, they admitted that for the first time in years they weren't scared to attend… Read more »

Africa: Eritrea-Ethiopia Peace Leads to a Refugee Surge

A group of Eritreans lines up outside a small, green army tent surrounded by yellow scrubland at the top of a ridge marking the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. Read more »

South Sudan: South Sudan Peace Deal - 'Whose Power Are They Sharing Anyway?'

Millions forced from their homes by the conflict need to be heard Read more »