Whatever happened to the ceasefire deal in Yemen?
10 Feb 2019
Yemen’s warring parties agreed a UN-brokered ceasefire for the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah back in December but, seven weeks on, deadlines have come and gone and much of the accord has still not taken hold.
Cholera returns to Yemen, with powerful allies
22 Oct 2018
The doctors and nurses at Hodeidah city’s al-Salakhanah Hospital know what a cholera outbreak looks like: they’ve seen the influx of patients complaining of diarrhoea before, the crying children afraid of needles and intravenous drips, the nervous family members at bedsides.
New health threats emerge for Sulawesi survivors
10 Oct 2018
Water shortages and cramped conditions are posing new problems in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province, where medical workers are reporting increasing cases of diarrhoea, skin rashes, and respiratory infections.
Toilets and tents: A week after Indonesia’s tsunami, survivors still need basic aid
03 Oct 2018
Frustrations are mounting in Indonesia’s Central Sulawesi province as survivors wait for help that’s slow to arrive nearly a week after earthquakes and a tsunami destroyed homes and villages and buried an unknown number of people under rubble.
Indonesia tsunami: Aid briefing
30 Sep 2018
Local authorities and NGOs are leading the initial rescue and relief effort on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in the aftermath of earthquakes and a tsunami that have claimed hundreds of lives.
How do you find one refugee in a million? A year after Myanmar exodus, “detectives” reunite fractured Rohingya families
04 Sep 2018
Bangladesh’s sprawling Rohingya camps are home to nearly one million refugees, but Atiqur Rahman Rabbi, a Red Cross aid worker, is searching for just one.
Idlib briefing: “Humanitarian catastrophe” feared as Syria war reaches final rebel stronghold
02 Sep 2018
As the Syrian government prepares to launch an offensive on Idlib province, humanitarians are on edge. Estimating the area may hold as many as three million people, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is “deeply concerned about the growing risks of a humanitarian catastrophe”, calling on Russia, Iran, and Turkey to seek a last-minute deal to avoid violence, while UN envoy Staffan de Mistura is offering to personally escort civilians out of the warzone.
In Rohingya camps, traditional healers fill a gap in helping refugees overcome trauma
02 Aug 2018
Only half those who need counselling or other mental health services have access to it.
A lost generation: No education, no dreams for Rohingya refugee children
28 May 2018
Aid groups have set up makeshift “learning centres” in Bangladeshi camps, but Rohingya parents say proper schools are needed
Fumbled repatriation sows fear in Bangladesh Rohingya camps
31 Jan 2018
It’s midday in Bangladesh’s sprawling Rohingya refugee settlements. A group of men hover under the shade of a tiny bamboo shack, trading strands of information about the topic on everyone’s minds: the future of several hundred thousand refugees here in the camps.
