August 09, 2023
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 »
August 08, 2023
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 »
August 07, 2023
Ethiopia: Ethiopia - a Dream for Many, a Nightmare for Many More
People are getting nervous Read more »
August 02, 2023
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 »
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 »
August 01, 2023
Sudan: Sudanese Aid Workers Face Hundreds of Job Losses
'Most of my colleagues are all displaced, they all lost their homes.' 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 »
July 27, 2023
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 »
July 25, 2023
Congo-Kinshasa: 'Timid' Aid Response Hurts Congolese Displaced By M23 Conflict
'Our lives depend on our neighbours.' Read more »
July 12, 2023
Congo-Kinshasa: Sexual Violence Plagues Women Displaced By DR Congo's M23 Conflict
'The figures are alarming.' Read more »
July 03, 2023
Nigeria: Living Trapped Between Boko Haram and Nigeria's Military
'The military wanted to make us leave our villages. They've attacked us four times, burning houses and crops.' Read more »
Nigeria: 'They Just Shoot and Burn' - Civilians Targeted in Nigeria's War On Boko Haram
'We need the international community to demand a thorough investigation.' Read more »
June 29, 2023
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 »
June 26, 2023
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 »
June 22, 2023
Ethiopia: Food Aid Freeze Leads to Suffering and Deaths in Tigray - Relief Official
'Our children are falling like leaves.' Read more »
June 21, 2023
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 »
June 14, 2023
Burundi: In Burundi, Returning Refugees Face Mixed Fortunes
'Some decide to return to exile believing that they can find better things.' Read more »
June 13, 2023
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 »
June 09, 2023
Central African Republic: More UN Sex Abuse Allegations in CAR - 60 Peacekeepers to Be Sent Home
'The evidence also points to a breakdown in command and control by commanders over their personnel.' Read more »
June 08, 2023
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 »
June 07, 2023
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 »
June 05, 2023
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 »
Congo-Kinshasa: Cash Transfer NGO GiveDirectly Loses U.S.$900,000 in DR Congo Mobile Cash Fraud
"These were people who had high starting levels of vulnerability (who) were told that they were going to receive a potentially life changing amount of money." Read more »
June 02, 2023
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 »
May 31, 2023
Congo-Kinshasa: Shaky M23 Ceasefire Stokes Fears of Further Conflict in Eastern DR Congo
'We have belligerents who are not acting in good faith.' Read more »