On a trip to Ukraine in 1991, my pastor friend and I spent the evening with a large family, feasting, singing hymns, laughing, and exalting Jesus together. We felt guilty when we learned our hosts had served an entire month’s ration of butter at the meal, but they assured us there was nothing they w
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. Gedaref at a Glance Between April and September 2026, ALIGHT’s protection programme reached more than 19,000 people with specialised GBV services across Gedaref’s camps....
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. A Crisis That Keeps Deepening Since conflict erupted in Sudan on 15 April 2023, ALIGHT has continuously adapted its response a cross East Darfur's Ad-Dae in locality. Severe protection gaps persist in the displacement sites of Sabrin, Lagawa and Gereda , leaving vulnerable peop...
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. Au Sénégal, la santé des équidés de trait dépend étroitement de celles des populations et des ressources naturelles qui assurent leur subsistance. Elle influence aussi les moyens d’existence et la résilience climatique des communautés qui utilisent ces animaux. sont étroitement...
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. This policy brief highlights the vital role that working horses and donkeys play in supporting the health, livelihoods and resilience of communities in Senegal, particularly during droughts and floods. Based on participatory research conducted by Brooke Action for Working Horse...
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. Half of rural Afghanistan, 12.3 million of 25.4 million rural residents, live more than 60 minutes by road from an existing market. The Afghanistan Rural Marketplace Opportunity (ARMO) report, by Data for Afghanistan, identifies where new rural marketplaces would cut that dista...
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. Conflict and insecurity continued to drive displacement, protection concerns and humanitarian access constraints across northern Mozambique. Between January and September 2026, approximately 34,378 people were displaced, including 4,814 during September alone, with women and ch...
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Countries: World, Argentina, Aruba (The Netherlands), Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao (The Netherlands), Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Panama,...
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. The blockade has effectively severed the last route through the mountains and valleys connecting the city to the interim capital of Aden. HALO teams on the ground in Taiz warn that vital food, water, fuel and medical supplies are dwindling as the humanitarian situation, already...
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. Under the Lifesaving Integrated Framework for Essential Services (LIFES) project, the 12-month initiative, running from 1 June 2026 to 31 May 2027, will operate in 28 target locations across six provinces: Kandahar, Zabul, Uruzgan, Helmand, Farah and Nimroz. The project is also...
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Last month I took my kids to visit a small family cemetery where my father and brother are buried. My 4-year-old, full of questions, had never seen a tombstone before. Her total ignorance reminded me that we live in a world where death exists mostly as an abstraction: We may ackn...
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A couple in the Netherlands euthanized their toddler. I read the headline again, sure I’d missed a keyword. I had not. A child with the same diagnosis (and similar disabilities) as my own daughter, Eliza, had died—not from natural causes or a horrific accident but by choice. Her ...
