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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Sudan: How Years of Impunity Gave Sudan's Generals Licence to Destroy My Country

'We woke up that Saturday to a new reality of killings, of bodies strewn on the streets, of artillery bombardment and burning buildings.' Read more »

Sudan: 'A Ticket to Anywhere' - Stories of Grief and Relief On a Bus Out of Khartoum

'We were living for five days under continuous fire.' Read more »

Ghana: Soaring Prices and Dwindling Farm Yields Drive Growing Hunger in Ghana

'Everybody buys food. So if there's a problem with food prices then it becomes a major driver of food insecurity.' Read more »

East Africa: Hard Borders and Little Aid - How Civilians Are Escaping Sudan's Conflict

'I never imagined I would find myself in this situation.' Read more »

Africa: We Need to Talk About International Aid and Refugee Self-Reliance

'International organisations and NGOs often treat refugees as burdens that need to be taken care of rather than as human beings capable of taking care of ourselves.' Read more »

Sudan: Aid Agencies in Sudan Face Massive Reboot As War Takes Hold

'This is now a much harder operational environment.' Read more »

Somalia: 'I Poison My Children in Order to Survive' - the Terrible Toll of Somalia's Drought

'I have six children, and this is the only way I can get food.' Read more »

Sudan: Khartoum Diary - 'I Lost My Son in This Meaningless Power Struggle'

'This is not Kabul or Mogadishu. It is not even Darfur or another warzone in Sudan.' Read more »

Uganda: Refugee Programme Hit By Fresh Fraud Concerns

'We kept asking for feedback. But nothing happened.' Read more »

Ethiopia: Tigray's Long Road to Recovery

'Life is more and more difficult. We lack everything.' Read more »

Sierra Leone: What's Changed Since #AidToo? Not Much, Say Sex Workers in Sierra Leone

'It has to pay for the girls to leave sex work. If they cannot earn as much, then they will always go back.' Read more »

Sudan: Sudan Unrest - The View From Darfur

'International media are focusing on Khartoum, but rights violations are also happening here.' Read more »