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11/10/2025

“These peace deals are not a path to stability – they are a dangerous illusion”: Idris Mohamed on the problem with Nigeria’s bandit amnesty agreements.
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The goal of enabling the Rohingya to return home to Myanmar remains distant until their security and rights are guarante...
10/10/2025

The goal of enabling the Rohingya to return home to Myanmar remains distant until their security and rights are guaranteed. Say Joe Freeman and Carolyn Nash. Read their op-ed: ⬇️

The goal of making it possible for the Rohingya to return home to Myanmar will remain distant until their security and rights are guaranteed.

The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the...
10/10/2025

The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the reality of war and the resilience of Congolese communities facing a brutal insurgency by the M23 rebel group.

These powerful new poems examine the escalating crisis in the east.

10/10/2025

In a poem commissioned by The New Humanitarian, Depaul criticises a recent US-brokered agreement between DRC and Rwanda, which is framed as a peace deal but tied to opening up avenues for American investment in Congolese minerals.
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Somalis abroad send hundreds of millions of dollars home each year, more than official aid flows.Read: ⬇️
09/10/2025

Somalis abroad send hundreds of millions of dollars home each year, more than official aid flows.

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Somalis abroad send hundreds of millions of dollars home each year, more than official aid flows.

As rebels seize their towns, spoken-word artists battle censorship and violence.Read:
09/10/2025

As rebels seize their towns, spoken-word artists battle censorship and violence.

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As rebels seize their towns, spoken-word artists battle censorship and violence.

09/10/2025

Dear readers and listeners, we would like your input on an important question:
“What image comes to mind when you think of a ‘humanitarian’ or the word ‘humanitarianism’?”
Please send a short voice memo to [email protected]. Your answer might be used in a future episode of our Rethinking Humanitarianism podcast!

Check out a who’s who of the biggest bandits in Nigeria’s northwest in this new op-ed by Idris Mohamed.
09/10/2025

Check out a who’s who of the biggest bandits in Nigeria’s northwest in this new op-ed by Idris Mohamed.

Instead of peace, poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity.

Two years into Israel's war in Gaza, the international legal system has been thrown into crisis by what law professor To...
08/10/2025

Two years into Israel's war in Gaza, the international legal system has been thrown into crisis by what law professor Tom Dannenbaum calls “the backlash of the powerful”.
Read our latest Q&A:

We spoke to legal expert Tom Dannenbaum about accountability efforts and how the US’ response is threatening to break the system of international law.

In our latest episode of , Jasmin Lilian Diab talks about how q***r community organisations have broken barriers in hum...
06/10/2025

In our latest episode of , Jasmin Lilian Diab talks about how q***r community organisations have broken barriers in humanitarian responses in Lebanon.

Global funding cuts are worsening emergency aid’s weaknesses when it comes to the LGBTQI+ community. But there are steps humanitarians can take today.

🚨 New newsletter: Inklings explores all things aid and aid-adjacent. Today: UN80’s humanitarian reset fingerprints, the ...
06/10/2025

🚨 New newsletter: Inklings explores all things aid and aid-adjacent. Today: UN80’s humanitarian reset fingerprints, the next UNHCR chief, and the future of the Grand Bargain.

Notes on aid: UN80’s humanitarian reset fingerprints, the next UNHCR chief, and the future of the Grand Bargain.

Poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity in Nigeria, a...
06/10/2025

Poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity in Nigeria, argues security analyst Idris Mohamed and recommends six ways amnesty deals can be done better.

Instead of peace, poorly structured amnesty deals embolden bandits, undermine government legitimacy, and perpetuate impunity.

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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.