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@newhumanitarian.bsky.socialThe New Humanitarian
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Journalism from the heart of crises
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🇪🇹Nearly four years after a peace agreement was signed to end the devastating war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, armed conflict has resumed. The hostilities threaten to destabilise the broader Horn of Africa and obscure a food crisis unfolding in the drought-hit region.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🇲🇽 🇺🇸 “People still need help. They’ve lost everything in their lives. They have nowhere to go."
Read about the volunteers still providing aid to asylum seekers and migrants stranded at the US-Mexico border, even as attention and resources fade away: https://bit.ly/4hxSIl8
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social📝 "To many, being Sudanese is a nationality. But to the Sudanese displaced by war, it has become a combination of denied visas, interrogations at airports, endless embassy visits, preposterous immigration fees, and the fear of deportation."
Read on: https://bit.ly/4elysB5
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🚨 New Inklings: German government pressured on WFP and Palantir, WFP’s hacked data registration app wins an award, and what’s going on at FAO?
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🎧 The humanitarian system isn’t short on identity crises, soul-searching, and reform promises. So why does a system so good at diagnosing its problems struggle to change?
Listen to the final collaborative episode between Rethinking Humanitarianism and Start Network: https://bit.ly/3TuPztb
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social📰 Our weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🗣️“You'd expect the humanitarian system to be rebalancing towards cash. It isn’t. “
People in emergencies ask for cash. But only 22% of humanitarian aid is cash or voucher assistance: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/09/30/humanitarians-keep-giving-people-what-theyre-not-asking
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🚨 The 60,000 people in Malawi’s Dzaleka camp are the frontline casualties of the World Food Programme’s funding crisis.
Ndizeye Innocent describes life in Dzaleka as WFP ration cuts take their toll on a community already pushed to the margins.
Read on here: https://bit.ly/4rOkSf9
@newhumanitarian.bsky.socialIn August, the head of UNHCR shared a photo on social media of him sitting down with the former director of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose food distribution hubs were the sites of daily killings between May and September 2025.
Why were the two men meeting?
https://bit.ly/4hx98sT
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social⚖️ “The era of development is over and the era of mutual interest and shared resilience is upon us, ” says UK’s Minister for International Development and Africa, Kirsty McNeill. But what happens to countries that are still owed justice?
Read the latest Decolonise How? Digest:
https://bit.ly/4yUcZqN
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social📰 Our weekly read to keep you in the loop on humanitarian issues.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social💲 Cryptocurrency: Mercy Corps, NRC, WFP, and UNHCR, are among the aid groups who have launched pilots or are actively sending assistance using stablecoins. Could it help aid responses?
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2026/09/24/why-humanitarians-see-potential-stablecoin-crypto
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🇸🇸 “The law has been abused against chiefs who have been questioning the authorities. It has given the executive overwhelming powers to make sure that they can do anything they wish without any accountability.”
Read on: https://bit.ly/4xG6irm
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social📝 "Reforming refugee protection is different from treating protection itself as the problem."
Read Mustafa Alio's op-ed on the fraying global bargain on refugee protection and how calls for reform are actually an attack on the system's foundation:
https://bit.ly/47iqPHC
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🚨 New Inklings newsletter: Critics worry a Trump pick will steer WFP along US ideological lines. But climate change and gender are already disappearing from key planning documents.
Read on here: https://bit.ly/4y7vF6I
@newhumanitarian.bsky.socialA Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker detained by the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) administration for nearly five years died by apparent suicide on 13 September in Mbabane, Eswatini’s largest city, according to local news reports and relatives of the deceased.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.socialA Trump pick could soon lead the World Food Programme. Here are 4️⃣ key questions facing Luke Lindberg – and the humanitarian system itself.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.socialHow do you finance a war?
Read how revenue from taxes, trade, and mining is used by the Rwanda-backed M23 to pay fighters, maintain a parallel administration, and consolidate territory.
@newhumanitarian.bsky.social🇳🇵 99% of international humanitarian funding flows after disasters happen. The Himalayan flood disaster in Nepal is another wake-up call, writes Jessica Alexander:
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/09/09/what-13-minutes-nepal-can-teach-us-about-acting-disaster-strikes