A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.

As pro-democracy campaigners refuse to negotiate with the military rulers after a bloody crackdown, life gets worse for ordinary Sudanese.

Five years of conflict have taken a particularly heavy toll on women, as villages empty of men, and women are left to head households on their own.

As local and international health workers scramble to contain the first cross-border Ebola cases, is Uganda ready?

Residents fear a cycle of rights abuses, protests, and crackdowns will bring a new era of increased militancy.

As Oxfam reels from enquiries into its handling of sexual exploitation and misconduct, these articles offer insights into #MeToo in the aid sector.

Khartoum holds the key to peace and ending the humanitarian crisis. Will the Transitional Military Council agree to a change in direction?

Should El Niño predictions have triggered an earlier aid response?

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.

A US volunteer is on trial for helping migrants cross the US-Mexico border. He’s not the first humanitarian to fall foul of the law recently.

Fire damage is driving up already high food prices in northwestern Syria, forcing more people to rely on aid.

Attackers tied to the former Janjaweed militia are accused of killing scores, the UN plans to pull non-critical staff.

Data privacy and civil liberty concerns are mounting over the potential for misuse of biometric information provided by migrants to the EU.

For 10 months, Kleinfeld chronicled the upheaval to civilians’ lives and livelihoods as violence spread through the Sahel, killing thousands and displacing hundreds of thousands more.

Lives, relationships, and meals in one neighbourhood of Lebanese, Palestinians, and Syrians who have opted for community over division.

From Congo to Canada: how a potentially game-changing Ebola vaccine was developed.

The same vaccine helped to quickly contain an outbreak last year, so why is it proving so hard to halt the spread of the virus now?

Aid groups warn of ‘avoidable deaths’ as inaccessible clinics, conservative beliefs, and misinformation push pregnant women to forgo healthcare.

For 10 months The New Humanitarian has been on the ground reporting as a surge in violence rips through West Africa. Here’s what we found.

A weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.