Countries: Moldova, Ukraine. Key messages ■ Urban refugees: 13.5% of households are multidimensionally poor, against 10.5% of the urban Moldovan population (NBS 2025). The 3.0 pp gap lies within the urban sampling margin, so the difference is indicative rather than statistically established. ■ Pove
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. HIGHLIGHTS One person killed and dozens abducted by armed men in Haut-Mbomou. Approximately 2,000 households receive cash assistance in Mbomou and Haut-Mbomou. GENERAL CONTEXT Haut-Mbomou Prefecture - South-East On 17 September, armed men prevented humanitarian organizations tr...
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Countries: Burundi, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Yemen ....
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Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe ....
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Countries: Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, South Sudan, Uganda .
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.8 million animals and safeguard the livelihoods of 1.2 million livestock-owning households amid ongoing conflict, displacement and a deepening food crisis. Building on the successful 2025 campaign, the 2026–2027 campaign will target 1.2 million livestock-owning households and 9....
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. Thousands of survivors are still displaced from their homes and facing critical food shortages as emergency food rations run out – with many affected communities likely to face a hunger crisis well into 2027 as their livelihoods and farmland has been destroyed. At least 1,450 p...
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. Situation Update Coordinated armed attacks on the communities of Ayaba, Ukpen, Bom, Aboajio and Yina in Mbazun Ward, Ukum LGA, killed 58 people in August, in the deadliest single episode recorded in Benue this year. A joint assessment by the Benue State Emergency Management Age...
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. 1. The Director-General is to report on a monthly basis on the progress in the elimination of the Syrian chemical weapons programme, in accordance with the relevant decisions of the OPCW policy-making organs outlined in the Annex hereto. This is the 156th such monthly report, w...
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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Nathaniel Philbrick, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World (Viking, October 2026) Nathaniel Philbrick is one of the most engaging history writers today. In my courses, I some...
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Franni Cash is no newcomer to the Christian music industry, and it shows. Though she’s only been recording and performing as a solo artist since 2023, her onstage charisma and ease in front of stadium crowds comes from years spent singing with the band We The Kingdom, whose other...
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When James Kilgo published Deep Enough for Ivorybills in 1988, reviewers compared it to Annie Dillard’s 1974 nature memoir Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard herself saw the kinship. In the afterword to a book she edited, Modern American Memoirs, she recommended Kilgo’s book. Ivory...
