. UNHCR Ethiopia’s Cash-Based Interventions (CBI) strategy aims to strengthen protection, enhance resilience, and promote economic and social inclusion of refugees, IDPs, returnees, and vulnerable host communities. The strategy aligns with UNHCR CBI Policy (2022–2026), Ethiopia Multi-Year Strategy (
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This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. A few weeks ago, I wrote here that the 250th anniversary of the United States deserves a better gospel than the false one of Christian nationalism. A pastor wrote in to ask what his church should do on the Sunday before this imp
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. Tagat is one of the two largest displacement sites in El Obeid town, located in Sheikan locality of North Kordofan. The site is situated in a flood-prone area, surrounded by natural wadis that act as drainage channels, increasing the risk of flooding. To date, no formal site management or coordina
. Al Mina Al Bari also known as Unified Camp is one of the two largest displacement sites in El Obeid town, located in Sheikan locality of North Kordofan. The site was serving as a bus station for the town. At the onset of 2023 conflict displaced population from rural areas of North, South and West
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . Building on Gavi’s recent commitment of US$40 million to support accelerated vaccine access, this EOI will help inform how that financing can best support manufacturing scale-up and rapid access to doses if and when they become available. The Exp
Countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali . SITUATION OVERVIEW • According to the October 2025 Cadre Harmonisé projections, over 1.3 million people will face acute food insecurity (Phases 3-4) between June and August 2026, with an additional 3.9 million in Phase 2 —representing a 43 percen
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Countries: Ethiopia, South Sudan . ◦ Define the WASH pathways for transition in accordance with the 50 by 35 and Makatet Road Map ◦ Ensure that WASH services in woredas and areas hosting forcibly displaced and stateless population are improved and included in facilities managed by regional water bur
. ▪ UNHCR, in collaboration with various partners, provides primary healthcare services to refugees and the neighboring host communities in Ethiopia, while also facilitating referrals to secondary and tertiary hospitals for refugees and asylum seekers. To promote effective access to healthcare and s
. UNHCR Ethiopia’s Cash-Based Interventions (CBI) strategy aims to strengthen protection, enhance resilience, and promote economic and social inclusion of refugees, IDPs, returnees, and vulnerable host communities. The strategy aligns with UNHCR CBI Policy (2022–2026), Ethiopia Multi-Year Strategy (
. ▪ In partnership with the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) and other partners, access to education services for the (2025/2026) academic year enrolled a total of 193,885 (85,398 girls) refugee students in pre-primary (52,858), primary (118,870), and secondary (22,157) levels of education. Moreover, 3,
. « L’Éthiopie fait la démonstration de ce qu’il est possible de réaliser lorsque la protection va de pair avec l’inclusion et l’accès à des opportunités, non seulement pour les réfugiés, mais aussi pour les communautés qui les accueillent », a déclaré Barham Salih. « Ce leadership mérite un soutien
. UNHCR, in collaboration with FDRE Refugee Returnee Service (RRS) and partners, is supporting refugees, asylum seekers, and host communities to access safe, dignified, habitable shelter—addressing urgent humanitarian needs while advancing integrated, climate-resilient settlements aligned with the G
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. What happened, where and when? Since early May 2026, Bolivia has experienced widespread social mobilizations and road blockades, which have progressively disrupted mobility and access to essential services. The situation escalated during the second half of May, when road blockades expanded across
. Located only a few kilometres from the southern borders, these communities found themselves trapped throughout the war, cut off from essential services, while facing severe limitations on their ability to move safely and access basic necessities. While most residents of the border areas were forci
. Three monthly cash transfers in Yemen achieve equivalent food security outcomes to six-month programs, but the additional transfers reduce harmful coping strategies – offsetting roughly one-third to one-half their incremental cost. Yemen's humanitarian cash programs sustain millions of households
. This initiative, carried out in collaboration with health authorities, enables the organisation to reach certain communities that are cut off from the healthcare system, whether due to a lack of information, financial difficulties or isolation. “When the project began, in some villages I met patie
. On 24 June 2021, María Hernández Matas, Tedros Gebremariam Gebremichael, and Yohannes Halefom Reda were shot while they were in the area looking for people in need of medical assistance, after reports of heavy fighting. One year on since MSF published our internal review into the brutal killing, t
. IN NUMBERS 534,000 people assisted in May 2026 (60% female) 265 mt food distributed in May 2026 USD 1.8M cash transferred in May 2026 USD 24.5M required in the next six months (June – November 2026) KEY HIGHLIGHTS In May, WFP supported over 534,000 people in Egypt through various interventions, in
. In contexts like Yemen, where operational constraints, access limitations and compliance pressures intersect daily, national non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operate closest to risk. They are the first to encounter disruptions, the first to respond, and often the ones who carry the consequenc
. Following the intense airstrikes on Beirut on April 8, about 1.2 million people were displaced and faced severe shortages of basic necessities. In response, on April 14, the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation (BTCF) transported 6,228 eco-friendly thick blankets from Jordan to Beirut to support those affe
. What happened, where and when? Madagascar is experiencing its rst documented Mpox epidemic (clade 1b), which began with the detection of the index case on 17 December 2025 (epidemiological week 51). An ocial alert was issued on 31 December 2025, marking the recognition of a rapidly evolving public
. After donating 100 bags of cement to Glan, a municipality on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines, on 21 June, AMDA’s joint relief team decided to end the quake-response activities for now. Since the start of the aid work on 18 June, AMDA’s effective assistance for the quake victims has achie
. We are witnessing an unprecedented global displacement crisis, with children bearing a disproportionate share of its consequences. Conflict, persecution, violence, climate disaster, and economic collapse have uprooted millions from their homes. The result has been fractured families, severed educa
. However, before the launch of the ACT-Femmes project by Action Against Hunger, the women mainly grew maize, which was harvested during the two summer months. The rest of the year was spent on other domestic tasks that did not generate any income for the family. For the past three years now, these
. The technical sessions focused heavily on reviewing current disaster risk assessment practices in Tajikistan. Experts analyzed existing operational methodologies, identifying critical challenges related to the fragmentation of data and the historical lack of standardized data exchange protocols ac
. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss strategic tools for enhancing the effectiveness of risk management, improving data collection, and developing early warning systems in the country. During the meeting, national experts and international partners reviewed in detail three key concepts
. Mediation is widely understood as third-party-assisted negotiations aimed at preventing, managing, or resolving armed conflicts in which the conflict parties’ consent to the mediator taking some degree of control over the process.1 The value of mediation as a tool to facilitate political solutions
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. Organized by MONUSCO’s Infection Prevention and Control and Epidemic Preparedness Unit (HPIDP) in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), the capacity-building session was held at MONUSCO’s Level II+ Hospital, located at the RVA site in Goma. Participants included doctors, nurses,
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. Syria’s operational environment is increasingly defined by large-scale returns and persistent humanitarian vulnerability. While around 1.6 million refugees and 1.9 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have returned since December 2024, humanitarian needs remain severe, with 15.6 million peo
. IN NUMBERS 610,000 people assisted in May 2026 (50% female) - estimate USD 1.3M cash transferred in May 2026 USD 22M required in the next six months (June – November 2026) 197,000 Syrian refugees returned from Jordan to Syria (December 2024 – June 2026) KEY HIGHLIGHTS WFP provided food assistance
Twenty-one years ago, I whispered a prayer that was simple to say but difficult to imagine how God would answer. My daughter, Naomi, had been born with Down syndrome and several complications, and the early weeks of her life were spent in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a Boston hospital. Separa
A few days after the Iran war began on February 28, a Christian convert and her family fled Tehran for their villa near the Caspian Sea. She hoped to avoid the airstrikes hitting the capital, but soon realized she faced a new danger. “I’m terrified to death,” she told Nahid Sepehri, executive direct
Henny Youngman began his famous comedy routine, “Take my wife—please.” I’m beginning this series of columns, “Take Gil Rife Jr.—please.” I spent hours with Gil at Eden Village, a Missouri homeless community where I stayed for six days in October 2023. Of all the homeless people in this series of col
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