In late July, Yared Melese, a 30-year-old NGO worker, checked into a hotel in North Wollo zone, part of Ethiopia’s troubled ...

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Policy advisers doubt the UN’s peacebuilding proposals will make a difference on the ground, but new ideas are sorely needed.

At least 12 people have been killed and nearly 3,000 wounded in Lebanon following an Israeli attack on 17 September targeting ...

Humanitarian action is not just for humans. The world will soon be swerving full speed toward a universal climate emergency.

Hong Kong’s legislature passed the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance in March, making various, vaguely defined ...

Guarantors of South Sudan’s turbulent peace process have called the government’s decision to postpone elections by two years a “disappointment”.

Notes and musings on how aid works, from The New Humanitarian’s policy editors. This is another edition of Inklings, where we ...

A construction boom is transforming the Mogadishu skyline. But as investors pump money into new apartment buildings and ...

UKRAINE: Three staff from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed on 12 September when shelling hit ...

A spate of flooding disasters in Asia, Europe, and Africa has led to hundreds of deaths, thousands of injuries, and mass displacement events across three continents, underlining the global scale and ...

The ongoing war in Myanmar between the ruling junta and armed ethnic groups has led to widespread abuses and systematic atrocities, including torture, sexual violence, and attacks where civilians were ...