Search results

Official aid is under pressure; private aid is growing

Location:

INT

Large US budget cuts risk squeezing public foreign aid, but more private co-funding may fill some of the gap

Sudan faces an unmitigated humanitarian crisis

Location:

SUDAN

Extreme levels of hunger and displacement are not being met with commensurate volumes of humanitarian aid

EU regional aid leaves non-metropolitan regions poor

Location:

EU

Several eastern capital regions exceed the EU average for GDP per capita but poorer regions are being left behind

Global humanitarian financing faces growing crisis

Location:

INTERNATIONAL

Amid rapidly expanding levels of need, humanitarian financing is not keeping pace

South Sudan faces persistent famine risk

Location:

SOUTH SUDAN

Aid agencies are again warning of a looming famine in South Sudan

Multiple COVID-19 vaccines will aid distribution

Location:

INT

Early vaccines may not be easily scalable, but later ones could be produced faster

Regional inequality may widen as China’s GDP recovers

Location:

CHINA

Local governments will spend trillions of renminbi to aid GDP and jobs, but the scope to add productive capacity varies

Ethiopia faces a major humanitarian disaster in Tigray

Location:

ETHIOPIA

With no end in sight to Ethiopia’s ongoing northern conflict, a massive humanitarian emergency looks nearly inevitable

Somalia may face chronic hunger issue

Location:

SOMALIA

Recurrent droughts of increasing frequency and intensity threaten the lives and livelihoods of millions of people

Middle East displacement is a looming COVID-19 threat

Location:

MIDDLE EAST

Years of conflict have left a large and acutely vulnerable refugee population, across scores of camps and crowded cities