Humanitarian Emergencies

Conflict & Hunger Deeply Embedded in War-Ravaged Yemen

By Abdulwasea Mohammed
During the week of May 21, the UN held its annual week dedicated to the Protection of Civilians. The themes of the week’s events, particularly the side events, I had the honor of participating in, mirrored many of the pressing issues in Yemen, as conflict continues.

Climate Disasters Have Major Consequences for Informal Economies

By Catherine Wilson
In the Pacific Islands and many developing and emerging countries worldwide, the informal economy far outsizes the formal one, playing a vital role in the survival of urban and rural households and absorbing expanding working-age populations.

As Game of Thrones Rages in Sudan, the Neighbors Pay the Price

By Hisham Allam
The conflict in Sudan is impacting the economy in Egypt, and those who make their living moving goods across the borders have spent weeks hoping the situation will normalize.

Population Denialism is Reminiscent of Climate Denialism

By Kirsten Stade
A new study estimates that global heating will push billions of people outside the comfortable range of temperature and weather in which we have evolved.

How Wagner Group, Mercenaries With a Wider Agenda, Impact Civil Society

By Fawzia Moodley
The Wagner Group, a shadowy mercenary group that has been operating for many years in African countries such as Sudan, Mali, the Central African Republic, and other mainly Francophone countries, has again been thrust into the limelight due to its involvement in the Ukraine war on behalf of Russia.

Khartoum is Falling – the Global Community Must Move Fast to Protect Children in their Darkest Moments

By Joyce Chimbi
As unprecedentedly fierce armed battles play out on the streets of Khartoum, more than 600 people are dead, thousands injured, and over 1 million displaced.

Rwanda: Better Mapping of Erosion Risk Areas Needed More Than Ever

By Aimable Twahirwa
Following severe flooding and landslides that hit major parts of Rwanda earlier this month, experts are convinced that investing in the mapping of erosion risk areas could go a long way to keeping the number of casualties down.

Indian Christians Seek Equal Rights for Dalit Converts

By Umar Manzoor Shah
Renuka Kumari is a 45-year-old Christian woman from the Dalit community in India's northern state of Uttar Pradesh. She faces numerous challenges every day and hopes for a day when her struggles will end and she can lead a comfortable life.

Social Media Mobile Phone Data in Disaster Management and the Implications That It Has on Vulnerable Populations

By Hannah Tuckman with the UNC Water Institute and the Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Belmont Forum funded project
This week sees the review of the United Nations Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. It will bring governments, partners and communities together to reduce disaster risk and losses and to ensure a safer, sustainable future.

Acute Hunger an ‘Immediate Threat’ To Over a Quarter of a Billion People

By Paul Virgo
While King Charles III’s coronation in Britain was hogging much of the international media’s attention at the start of this month, it was easy not to notice another story that deserved at least as many headlines.

Violence Knows No Borders

By Richard Probst and Anna Reuss
Events in Sudan have been a constant topic of conversation in Cairo's coffee houses since the violence erupted there four weeks ago. The images of almost 30 Egyptian soldiers briefly detained in Sudan by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias and the death of an Egyptian diplomat in Khartoum caused a stir in Egypt.

Finding Ways to Feed South Africa’s Vast Hungry Population

By Fawzia Moodley
In the deep rural village of Jekezi in South Africa's Eastern Cape, most young and able-bodied people have fled the area, leaving behind people with disabilities, the elderly, and children.

Parliamentarians Ask G7 Hiroshima Summit to Support Human Security and Vulnerable Communities

By Cecilia Russell
Parliamentarians from more than 30 countries agreed to send a strong message to the G7 Hiroshima Summit in Japan later this year, focusing on human security and support of vulnerable communities, including women, girls, youth, aging people, migrants, and indigenous people, among others.

New Mosquito Species Could Derail Fight Against Malaria

By Wilson Odhiambo
‘Urban’ Kenya has been alerted because new mosquito species, Anopheles stephensi, threatens to derail decades of effort made in the fight against malaria.

Can a Pledge to End TB Stick This Time Around?

By Morounfolu Olugbosi
This week, the United Nations will host two days (May 8-9) of preliminary talks to plan a larger conference on tuberculosis (TB) in September. These preliminary talks will be held in New York City, the epicenter of the last significant surge of TB cases in the United States (U.S.) thirty years ago.

Theatre Used to Dispel Polio Immunisation Myths in Pakistan

By Ashfaq Yusufzai
Pakistan, one of two polio-endemic countries in the world, has started staging theatrical dramas to promote immunisation in an attempt to encourage parents who refuse to allow their children to be vaccinated.

In Sudanese Conflict, Either You Lose Everything, or You Die

By Hisham Allam
On the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, Saber Nasr, a young Egyptian man of 20, developed a fever.

An Afghan Appeal to UN Leadership

By Ahmad Wali Ahmadi
We are a group of Afghans living in the country and working across sectors including peace, civil society, humanitarian aid, human rights, media, and the private sector, and are working to promote dialogue and seek long-term solutions for our country.

A Letter from Kabul

By Jean-François Cautain
I am writing from Kabul where I have been living for this past 11 months. I consider myself a friend of Afghanistan, a country full of contrasts that I know since 1986; I have lived here for a little over 12 years.

Tuberculosis Risk Factors Exacerbated by Climate Change

By Ed Holt
While there is no established causal relationship between climate change and tuberculosis (TB), studies have begun to highlight the potential impact its effects could have on the spread of the disease.

Holistic Education Support in Colombia Extended to Counter Snowballing Learning Crisis

By Joyce Chimbi
The largest external displacement crisis in Latin America’s recent history is unfolding as countries open their borders to an influx of refugees from Venezuela following unprecedented political turmoil, socio-economic instability, and a humanitarian crisis.
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