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01/11/2025
Gaza is the most flagrant example of trends that have been developing in the international system for over 20 years, argues Khaled Mansour, a former UN spokesperson who watched these developments from a front-row seat. https://buff.ly/w6fQHDn
31/10/2025
While there’s a lot of concern about individual wars, such as Ukraine or Gaza, the rise of war itself seems to be flying completely under the radar, warns David Harland, Executive Director of the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue: ⬇️ https://buff.ly/zCI0ir4
31/10/2025
Fighters from the Rapid Support Forces have filmed themselves committing mass killings in Darfur’s El Fasher – even as their leaders sat in US-sponsored peace talks.
The city’s fall marks a new horror in Sudan’s war, reports journalist and human rights defender Ahmed Gouja. ⬇️
Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.
30/10/2025
“Humanitarian responses should not last forever.” Global funding cuts – and the international humanitarian system's response to them – are a pivotal moment for emergency aid. How it’s unfolding in Cameroon: ⬇️
With 800,000 fewer people already targeted for assistance, aid workers warn the longer-term impact could be the worsening of the separatist conflict.
30/10/2025
Economic hardship and youth unemployment have long been persistent challenges in Iran, and have sometimes become drivers of major protests – such as “the Bloody Aban” demonstrations in 2019.
But the current downturn has been unusually sudden and deep. ⬇️
Iran has faced economic crises before, but this one has been unusually sudden and deep, forcing many businesses to close or downsize.
30/10/2025
🗣️ “Why don’t you meet in Bangkok? The food is fabulous.” In the latest Inklings newsletter: Notes on reform, Gaza fundraising, Sudan blockades, and humanitarian cuisine choices.
Notes on aid: What’s next for the humanitarian reset and Grand Bargain, who’s fundraising off Gaza, and why bureaucracy is “suffocating” aid in Sudan.
30/10/2025
Khaled Mansour was working for the UN in 2001 when he watched the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centers from a restaurant in the Gaza Strip. Looking back, he traces a line from the aftermath of that day to the war that has destroyed the enclave. https://buff.ly/w6fQHDn
29/10/2025
“For more than two decades I have called the Dzaleka Refugee Camp home, though “home” has always been a complicated word here. Dzaleka was never meant to be permanent, yet for many of us it has become the only place we know.
Over the years, it has grown into a community of its own, made up of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Children born here have become parents themselves. Schools and small markets have sprung up, and through it all, one name has been constant – the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.
Now funding cuts have triggered a dramatic downsizing of the agency, changing the nature of the camp, and sparking fears that it could even close entirely, leaving its 56,000 refugees stranded.” writes Ndizeye Innocent, Burundian refugee living in Malawi.
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Drastic cuts to the budget of the UN’s refugee agency mean an uncertain future for 56,000 refugees.
29/10/2025
Kenyan elites do not seek to build institutions to restrain power but rather movements to capture it.
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Kenyan elites do not seek to build institutions to restrain power but rather movements to capture it.
29/10/2025
A surge in drone attacks and airstrikes across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has left families traumatised, schools emptied, and thousands displaced.
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A surge in drone attacks and airstrikes across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has left families traumatised, schools emptied, and thousands displaced.
29/10/2025
While some argue that AI imagery can be a force for democratisation, others worry that it is simply repackaging harmful stereotypes.
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While some argue that AI imagery can be a force for democratisation, others worry that it is simply repackaging harmful stereotypes.
28/10/2025
As a UN spokesperson, Khaled Mansour watched as powerful states eroded international law and bent humanitarian aid to serve their interests following 9/11. Gradually, he lost faith in the humanitarian system. Now, he argues, it must be constructed anew.
A former UN spokesperson traces the developments that have enabled Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza back to the beginning of the War on Terror.
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The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even prevent future disasters of that magnitude.
Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multi-billion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need. As digital disinformation went global, and mainstream media retreated from many international crisis zones, our field-based, high-quality journalism filled even more of a gap. Today, we are one of only a handful of newsrooms world-wide specialized in covering crises and disasters – and in holding the aid industry accountable.
In 2019, we changed our name to The New Humanitarian to signal our move from UN project to independent newsroom and our role chronicling the changing nature of – and response to – humanitarian crises.
Throughout our journey, we have remained true to our mission to inform crisis prevention and response by amplifying the voices of those most affected; shining a light on forgotten crises; and resisting superficial, sensational narratives about the crises of our time.
Our name and brand identity
Evocative of respected media brands such as The New Statesman and The Economist, The New Humanitarian is the authoritative news source for policy-makers and practitioners involved in humanitarian response. We are to crises what POLITICO is to politics.
Our logo is designed in GT Sectra, a modern serif font that originated as the house typeface of a Swiss longform journal called Reportagen. It marries the flourish of calligraphy to the precision-cut lettering of a printing press, echoing our commitment to evocative story-telling based on sharp reporting.
The cursor at the end of our logo signals our aim to be fresh and forward-looking, ready to tap in to the latest developments, and tell the ongoing story of crises as they evolve.
But most importantly, The New Humanitarian speaks to the profound shifts impacting our world today.
The drivers of humanitarian needs are changing, thanks to new threats like climate change, longer-lasting conflicts, and a geopolitical landscape that makes the resolution of crises at the international level more challenging.
The impacts of humanitarian crises are changing too, becoming more global in their repercussions. The exodus of refugees from Syria is one of many examples.
Traditional forms of humanitarian intervention are bursting at the seams; new approaches and players are emerging to fill an increasing gap between needs and response.
Tackling the world’s crises is no longer the exclusive domain of governments, “Big Aid” and the United Nations -- nor is it only about disaster relief and aid delivery. In many ways, the whole conception of humanitarianism is changing, evidenced by the private sector’s response to refugees; high school students marching for climate change; and local communities reclaiming agency in shaping their own futures. Today, a new generation of humanitarians is redefining the way the world responds to crises – demanding a seat at the table and a voice in the conversation.
We remain the trusted news source for policy-makers and practitioners in humanitarian response, but The New Humanitarian is expanding to reach this wider audience of people who want to better understand our complex world, in order to change it for the better.
