Aid Funding Cuts and Malnutrition Force Kakuma Refugees Back to South Sudan

Posted on December 1, 2025December 2, 2025

Men carry bags of food aid at the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, March 6, 2018. Picture taken March 6, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

Refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya are starving and suffering from malnutrition. The slashing of the United States Agency for International Development in early 2025 has led to a 70% decrease in funding for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The WFP has had to cut the refugees’ rations to 30% of the minimum recommended amount a person should eat to stay healthy, leaving 45% of South Sudanese, the largest group of refugees, without food assistance. This has…

Centrafrique: Humanitarian Priorities Must Be Based on Need, Not Geopolitics

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Posted on October 30, 2025November 6, 2025

The ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic (CAR) remains one of the world’s most underreported and neglected emergencies. In 2022, CAR recorded one of the highest national crude mortality rates globally (55 deaths per 1,000 people), exceeding that of Ukraine, yet the crisis continues to receive minimal international attention. United Nations (UN) data suggest that there is no health emergency in CAR. This silence and lack of reliable information reflects a troubling pattern: the Global North’s selective visibility…

Barred from Healing: Denial of Qualified Medical Care Deepens Humanitarian Crises

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Posted on April 28, 2025November 6, 2025

This article is written in Arabic and English. For the English version, please see below. في مناطق النزاع حول العالم، يمكن أن يكون الوصول إلى المهنيين الطبيين المؤهلين هو الفارق بين الحياة والموت. ولا يوجد مكان يتجلى فيه هذا الأمر أكثر من غزة، حيث أدى الحصار المتعمد على العاملين في مجال الرعاية الصحية الماهرين إلى تفاقم كارثة إنسانية متزايدة. أحد الحالات الرمزية هو حالة الدكتور محمد الموسوي محمد طاهر، الجراح البريطاني-العراقي المتخصص في جراحة الصدمات والمعروف بمساهماته الاستثنائية خلال مهمة…

War in Sudan: Unprecedented hunger and displacement

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Posted on April 12, 2025April 30, 2025

The United Nations (UN) released a 10 April report stating that the 2-year war in Sudan is one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century, with tens of thousands dead, over 12 million people displaced, and 25 million – half the population – facing extreme levels of hunger. The report states that both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces [RSF] and Sudanese Armed Forces [SAF] have obstructed access to critically needed humanitarian assistance. “Tens of thousands more will die…

An Abyss of Suffering: The Daily Account of a Goma Resident Amid the M23 Invasion

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Posted on February 7, 2025February 21, 2025

This article is written in French and English. For the English version, please see below. La version française Le 25 janvier au matin, le Mouvement du 23 mars (M23), milice soutenue par le Rwanda, a envahi Goma, la plus grande ville de l’est de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). Le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations unies estime qu’au moins 3 000 personnes ont été tuées depuis que les rebelles du M23 se sont emparés…

From Conflict Minerals to Global Responsibility: Why Congo’s Crisis Matters to Us All

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Posted on January 28, 2025January 31, 2025

The long-standing humanitarian crisis and conflict in eastern Congo is a personal one for me. As a refugee from Goma, eastern Congo, I lost family members to this conflict. I am writing this piece to shed light on the worsening situation in the region, both as a Global Health Master of Public Health student and as someone who dreams of peace and a healthy community in my homeland. I ask you to keep learning, sharing, writing to your representatives about…

Sudan’s Forgotten War

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Posted on October 19, 2024November 1, 2024

Ezzeldin Saleh and colleagues, in the October 2024 Lancet, draw attention to the horrific and unprecedented conflict in Sudan that has caused immense suffering for the Sudanese people since April 2023. Nearly 11 million people have been internally displaced, and 2.3 million have sought refugee status in neighboring countries. The economy has collapsed, and famine is rampant throughout the country, with approximately 53% of the countries 25.6 million people experiencing high levels of food insecurities – and 14 areas experiencing…

Gazan Death Toll Four Times Greater Than Official Estimates, According to Multiple Experts

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Posted on July 23, 2024November 28, 2025

In mid-June, the Gazan Ministry of Health reported a cumulative death toll of nearly 39,000 people attributed to the Israeli assault on Gaza, including 15,000 children. However, other credible researchers estimate that the true death toll is likely over four times higher than reported. Susan Abulhawa, a Gazan refugee, scientist, author and human rights activist argues that the currently reported numbers “don’t give an accurate picture at all”. Abulhawa states that the reported numbers only account for individuals going through…

Crisis in Sudan: Urgent Call for De-Escalation in El Fasher

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Posted on July 10, 2024

El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, is at the epicenter of escalating conflicts in Sudan, now a battleground between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). With over a million civilians, many displaced and on the verge of starvation, the situation in El Fasher demands immediate global attention. This violence stems from a broader conflict that ignited in April 2023 in Khartoum, fracturing the nation and thrusting Darfur into chaos. The importance of El Fasher cannot…

Defunding UNWRA in Gaza is ‘collective punishment’ – Lancet & Health Justice Organizations

Posted on February 10, 2024February 10, 2024

Health and political leaders globally have condemned defunding of UNRWA, the principle lifeline for the people of Gaza. Sharmila Devi, in the current issue of Lancet, quotes UN leaders and aid agency leaders (including WHO) “no other entity has the capacity to deliver the scale and breadth of assistance that 2·2 million people in Gaza urgently need,” the cuts are “collective punishment,” and “if a teacher is found to be a murderer, we don’t get calls to defund the school…