News, comment and features on humanitarian response and action, emergency aid and disaster relief
July 2024
I’ll be helping to clear unexploded bombs in Gaza, my home. But I dread what I will find there
Haniya Albaioumy
Who knows what we will discover beneath the 37m tonnes of rubble? Yet this will be the most vital work I have ever done, says Gaza emergency response manager Haniya Albaioumy
UK should restore diplomatic presence to help Afghan women, says aid chief
Hugh Bayley says NGOs would also benefit as he releases report on impact of UK programme in Afghanistan
‘They live with fear in their stomachs’: increasing violence deepens crisis in Burkina Faso
About 10% of the population is displaced and 40 of the west African country’s cities are cut off from aid – but agencies say they have only 17% of the funding needed to help
June 2024
‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas
‘We need the world to wake up’: Sudan facing world’s deadliest famine in 40 years
US ‘evaluating’ Hamas response to Gaza ceasefire proposal
US-made Gaza pier resumes aid shipments after storm damage
May 2024
US aid to Gaza stalls after temporary pier breaks apart in heavy seas
It’s an open secret: the UAE is fuelling Sudan’s war – and there’ll be no peace until we call it out
Husam Mahjoub
Attacks on health workers in conflict zones at highest level ever – report
Australian doctor trapped in Gaza hospital begs government to evacuate medical team
US completes installation of floating pier to deliver aid to Gaza
I have worked in the world’s most dangerous combat zones. Never have I felt as unsafe as I did in Gaza
Amy Neilson
At least eight Israeli strikes on Gaza aid groups since October, says report
The Observer view on Sudan’s civil war: a humanitarian disaster we choose to ignore
‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way
Multiple Casualty Incident review – thorny questions in humanitarian aid drama
April 2024
Humanitarian groups demand safe routes to UK after five deaths in Channel
UN and Council for Europe add voices to outcry as more people drown within hours of ‘cruel’ Rwanda bill being passed
G7 opposes full-scale military operation in Rafah amid fears for civilians
Ministers warn an offensive would be catastrophic for people in Gaza’s southernmost city
UK accused of double counting £500m of aid to meet climate pledge
Humanitarian work in Afghanistan and Yemen now classified as climate finance, FoI request reveals, as £11.6bn pledge slips
