The New Humanitarian

At the start of the year, we published this analysis flagging how – even as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominated headlines going into 2024 – it was important to remember the many other crises that were being too easily forgotten by the media and neglected by aid donors.

Why these 10 humanitarian crises still demand your attention

The Sudanese army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have inflicted “horrendous violence” on people across Sudan, according to a new report by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The report draws on medical and operational data, highling patterns of violence observed by...

MSF report flags ‘horrendous’ Sudan violence

Somalia is stuck in a “humanitarian trap”, with a generation of “undignifying” emergency relief leading to the “slow death” of the people receiving it. Those are not the words of an aid-sceptic politician in a donor country, but those of Abdihakim Ainte, a top official working on climate change in Somalia’s government. Humanitarians have operated in the east African country for decades.

The government view on ending Somalia’s humanitarian aid ‘trap’

Just a few kilometres from President Gustavo Petro’s palace in downtown Bogotá, hundreds of mostly Emberá Indigenous people live in a makeshift tent community in one of the Colombian capital’s most iconic parks. Fire smoke wafts from shelters fashioned from tarps and from signs that once...

When Colombia’s conflict-displaced come to the capital

Hi, this is Will covering for Irwin for another edition of Inklings, where we explore all things aid and aid-adjacent unfolding in humanitarian hubs, on the front lines of emergency response, or in the dark corners of online aid punditry. It’s also available as an email newsletter. Subscribe here.

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Almost 3,000 children have been arrested and 1,000 convicted over mostly gang membership-related charges in El Salvador as part of President Nayib Bukele’s so-called “war on gangs”, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report includes testimonies of 90 people, among them 66 victims...

Salvadoran minors pay price of gang crackdown

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Explore Beaufort SC

Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

At least 89 people have died and as many as 72 are still missing following the latest deadly shipwreck on the Atlantic Ocean migration route between the west coast of Africa and the Spanish Canary Islands. The boat – a traditional fishing vessel – set sail from near the Senegal-Gambia...

160 dead or missing in Atlantic migrant crossing

An operation to rescue 93 asylum seekers and migrants onboard a wooden fishing boat off the coast of Libya took a dangerous turn on 9 July. As workers from the search and rescue NGO SOS Méditerranée were evacuating people from the vessel, two dinghies carrying armed, masked men arrived on the scene. Two of the men boarded the fishing boat, prompting the remaining asylum seekers and migrants onboard to jump into the sea.

Armed men disrupt Mediterranean migration boat rescues

The day after a second batch of 200 Kenyan law enforcement officers were deployed as part of an international stabilisation mission, acting Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told gang members on Wednesday: “Drop your weapons and recognise the authority of the state.”. His televised evening press conference came amid...

Haiti PM calls on gang members to disarm

The foreign minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has said the UN peacekeeping mission in the country is unlikely to leave while Rwandan troops remain present on the ground supporting an insurgency by the M23 armed group. The peacekeeping mission, known by its French acronym MONUSCO, was asked...

UN peacekeeper withdrawal paused in DR Congo

The nexus isn’t a myth. The response to the refugee crisis in eastern Chad is a rare example of a joined-up approach to humanitarian and development challenges. Since war broke out in Sudan last April, more than 750,000 refugees and migrant returnees have fled to eastern Chad. They joined more than 400,000 people still displaced in Chad since the Darfur genocide of the 2000s.

Yes, the nexus is real. But it needs a radical overhaul

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

The Ford Foundation has denied accusations by Kenyan President William Ruto that it has been funding weeks of youth-led anti-tax protests that have now morphed into demands for him to cede power. It’s not the first time accusations of financing the protests have been lobbed at international organisations. At the...

Ford Foundation denies Ruto protest accusations

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CJ Coombs

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) helps to locate missing children. Since July 1, 2024, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), 174 children have been reported missing in the U.S. Since January 1, 2024, there was a total of 1,445 reported missing in the country.

Missing Missouri children as of July 17, 2024, according to the NCMEC

The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

Marlene and I sat on the back patio of her home in Villa del Rosario, a town near Venezuela’s border with Colombia, sipping our coffees. A 44-year-old Venezuelan school teacher and single mother, Marlene painstakingly made a list of everything she could sell in her home to finance her trip to escape the crisis in Venezuela. On that list were her oven, pots and pans, tennis shoes, a swivel chair, and her two kids’ toys — items that represent the remnants of a once-stable life. The $12 she earns per month teaching would not be enough to travel to Chile, where she has family with whom she can stay.

It’s time to act: Why we can’t overlook the risk of a new exodus from Venezuela

At the end of this year, the last UN peacekeepers are scheduled to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo after two difficult decades, a withdrawal that reflects broader changes underway to the international security system. The peacekeeping mission – known by its French acronym, MONUSCO – has been the...

The changing face of peacekeeping: What’s gone wrong with the UN?

Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan has once again come under scrutiny for consistent allegations of human rights violations perpetrated mainly by the group. At the same time, given that Afghanistan was completely dependent on foreign assistance before 2021, aid cutbacks, sanctions, and banking restrictions imposed by...

How to engage with the Taliban, if you have to

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – An Essex County man has been charged with numerous offenses related to narcotics distribution and firearms trafficking. Kyrell Domnie, 39, of Irvington, known by the alias "Fly Ky," was charged by complaint and appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cathy L. Waldor in Newark federal court on July 17, 2024. He remains detained following the hearing.

Convicted Felon Faces Multiple Narcotics and Firearms Charges

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Niger tries a new refugee model as Nigerians flee bandit attacks

This story was edited and published in partnership with Minority Africa. With reporting support from Alzouma Seini Soumaila. Videos and photos by Al-Amin Muhammed Ibrahim. Animation...

Niger tries a new refugee model as Nigerians flee bandit attacks

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