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Save the Children International (SCI) is preparing for mass layoffs at its London headquarters and five regional offices amid a major restructuring aimed at addressing a projected budget shortfall. “Without action in 2024, we face a forecasted gap on our operational budget of $15-$20 million in coming years,” says an...

EXCLUSIVE: Save the Children to cut hundreds of jobs as funding gap looms

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Inklings | What to make of IRC staff cuts? Four takeaways

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. The International Rescue Committee will make “significant” cuts to staff jobs – part of the fallout from a surprise budget deficit that has ballooned through 2024. Read our reporting on this here. IRC leadership blames rising costs, disappointing private fundraising, and poor internal budgeting practices (while many staff blame the organisation’s leaders and their priorities). IRC is far from the only aid group with budget woes. The sector-wide funding landscape is “grim”, and polycrises are spiralling. Other organisations have been busy restructuring – or making plans to – depending on how early their budget problems are spotted. But will these troubles force big aid organisations to change – re-focus, downsize, or become better partners, for example? Some have promised big changes when faced with a so-called “new normal” of tighter donor funding. For now, such language appears to be absent from internal IRC announcements.

IRC staff cuts, South Sudan floods, and Yazidi genocide survivors: The Cheat Sheet

The International Rescue Committee will make far-reaching staff cuts, in the wake of a surprise budget shortfall that has spurred months of cost-cutting and sparked anger among the NGO’s workforce. “I am very sorry to say that departmental budgets for [fiscal year 2025] will involve quite significant reductions in...

IRC cuts staff amid budget shortfall

Latin Times

High ranking officials from the United States, Colombia and Venezuela met in Cartagena de Indias this week to discuss increasing their cooperation on addressing irregular migration. Concretely, the three countries discussed different policies with this aim, including efforts for the socioeconomic regularization and integration of migrants, as well as promoting...

U.S., Colombia and Panama agree to increase crackdown on regional migration route through more deportations

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared mpox a global health emergency a day after the Africa Centre for Disease Control (CDC) issued a similar declaration. The virus, formerly known as monkeypox, causes a painful skin rash, flu-like symptoms, and can be deadly, particularly in children. So far, at least 12 African countries have confirmed cases of mpox, according to the Africa CDC, and there have been 2,863 confirmed cases, 517 confirmed deaths, and 17,000 suspected cases across the continent.

WHO, Africa CDC declare mpox health emergency

Almost two weeks after the Malawian army raided the Dzaleka refugee camp to uproot people smuggling gangs, there’s still a good deal of support for the action, but it's tinged with worry that these powerful networks may simply reestablish themselves. Over 200 people were arrested on the night of...

Malawi refugee camp raid unlikely to smash people smuggling networks

UNRWA, the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees, has announced the firing of nine employees following the conclusion of an internal investigation into Israeli allegations that 19 UNRWA staff members had participated in the Hamas-led 7 October attacks into Israel last year. The investigation, carried out by the Office of...

Nine UNRWA employees fired, 10 cleared over 7 Oct attacks

CBS News

President Biden ordered the construction of a temporary pier to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza earlier this year even as some staffers for the U.S. Agency for International Development expressed concerns that the effort would be difficult to pull off and undercut the effort to persuade Israel to open "more efficient" land crossings to get food into the territory, according to a USAID inspector general report published Tuesday.Mr. Biden announced plans to use the temporary pier in his State of the Union address in March to hasten the delivery of aid to the Palestinian territory besieged by war between Israel...

Biden gave go-ahead for Gaza aid pier despite doubts from some USAID staffers

This week marks 10 years since the start of the Yazidi genocide, perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State (IS). It has been a full decade since the horrors began. The Yazidis’ historic homeland has still not been rebuilt, survivors are facing eviction from the camps where they live, women and children remain in captivity, and many people are still missing. These issues, alongside the lack of justice and accountability, are as pressing as ever to a community that has been through so much. It’s high time for national and international governments to take action.

10 years into genocide, Yazidi survivors continue to demand their rights

Reuters

ROME (Reuters) - Foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Thursday that he wanted more African students to come to Italy, in remarks that may exacerbate a coalition squabble over immigration and citizenship rights.

Italy's foreign minister says country needs more African students

UN chief António Guterres has called for Africa to be given a permanent seat at the UN Security Council, a reform aimed at making the body more representative and globally credible. Addressing the council on Monday, Guterres said the current composition of the Council was anachronistic and undermined the...

Guterres calls for a permanent African seat on the UN Security Council

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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

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According to officials with the Southern District of Georgia, two recently unsealed federal indictments have charged 23 defendants in a series of broad conspiracies involving the use of drones to smuggle methamphetamine, marijuana, and cell phones into state prisons in Georgia.

23 Defendants Charged in Federal Indictments for Drone-Smuggling Drug Operation in Georgia

Two months have passed since the arrival of 400 Kenyan police officers in Haiti, as part of a Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission approved by the UN to help restore security. But Haitians have seen little improvement in their daily life, and gangs continue to control large swathes of the...

Is the Kenyan-led police mission helping Haiti?

The US on Wednesday announced sanctions against an Israeli organization, Hashomer Yosh, allegedly responsible for supporting settler violence in the West Bank against Palestinians, according to a State Department spokesperson.

US sanctions Israeli group and individual for alleged West Bank violence against Palestinians

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Alamogordo Conservative Daily

Command Sgt. Maj. Harold “Ed” Jarrell has been relieved as the senior enlisted for the Army’s 1st Information Operations Command, an Army spokesperson confirmed, marking the third time within a month and the second within a week, that the Army has fired a command sergeant major of a brigade or larger unit as per Task and Purpose.

The Army Fires 3rd Command Sergeant Major in a Month: Command Sgt. Maj. Harold "Ed" Jarrel

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David Heitz

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

Ten international NGOs have issued a joint statement calling on donor countries to increase their diplomatic engagement with the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate government in Afghanistan. The statement was released ahead of the third anniversary of the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul on 15 August 2021. The signatories...

NGOs call for donors to engage with Afghanistan’s Taliban government

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Morristown Minute

MORRISTOWN, NJ - Two members of a Jersey City gang associated with the Marion Gardens Housing Complex were sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their involvement in multiple shootings and other gang-related crimes, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.

Gang Members Sentenced: 31 Years for Violent Crimes

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International aid agencies pay the price for boom and bust

The staff cuts and financial turbulence at Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee reported by The New Humanitarian in recent weeks follow years of...

International aid agencies pay the price for boom and bust

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