Congo-Kinshasa: In DR Congo's Uvira, Pro-Government Militia Actions Show Abuses Aren't Just an M23 Problem

"People were whipped, arrested, some died in detention." Read more »

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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: Life Under the M23 - What Our Reporting Reveals About Rebel Rule in DR Congo

"It is a bona fide police state that focuses only on security and neglects all other areas of life." 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 »

Kenya: 'The Weight We Carry'

Poems from Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp 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 »

West Africa: COP30 - the Cautionary Tale of the Sahel's Great Green Wall

"Its power is its ability to attract funding in Europe and the United States. The problem is that's all it does." Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Mining Interests and Missed Deadlines - Why Congolese See Little Hope in M23 Peace Talks

"They are signing commitments they never intended to implement." 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 »

Nigeria: Boko Haram Is Back, and Nigeria's IDP Return Policy Is in Trouble

"You can't just return people and expect them to face whatever is out there." 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 »

Malawi: 'Remember We Exist', Refugees in Malawi Say As Aid Is Slashed

How do we survive when the very system meant to protect us begins to disappear? 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 »

Cameroon: Aid Cuts and Elections - How the Humanitarian Rollback Has Caused 'Chaos' in Cameroon

"At the level of programme activity, it was catastrophic." Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Land Grabs and Assassinations in DR Congo's Rutshuru

"They tell us they are hunting the FDLR, but it is peasant farmers who are dying." Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: The M23 Takeover, Part 2 - Congolese Describe Domination and Defiance in South Lubero

"It's a bona fide police state that focuses only on security." 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 »

Congo-Kinshasa: The M23 Takeover, Part 1 - in DR Congo's Walikale, Forced Labour and Fears of Arrest

"They sow terror so that they will be listened to." 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 »

Africa: From the Global Sumud Flotilla to the UN General Assembly - Where Are the Humanitarians?

Civil society movements are carrying the mantle of humanitarian values that national and global institutions have all too willingly abandoned. 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 »