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The cheat sheet: Somalia famine, Trump orders, and chemical weapons in Syria

10 February 2017

Every week, IRIN’s team of editors takes a look at what lies ahead on the humanitarian agenda and curates a selection of some of the best reports, opinion, and journalism you may have missed:

News

The weekly humanitarian round-up
3 February 2017
Every week, IRIN's team of editors curates a selection of some of the best humanitarian reports, opinion, and journalism you may have missed and looks...
News

The return of ex-M23 rebels sparks fears of more humanitarian suffering in the region
27 January 2017
The return to Congo of ex-M23 rebels is potentially destabilising and has come at a particularly bad time

Ten humanitarian stories to look out for in 2017
2 January 2017 Analysis
Vote limbo for Central African refugees
14 September 2015 Analysis
Hear it from the people: What's wrong in the Central African Republic?
8 April 2015 Analysis

Analysis

Killing us softly
27 March 2015
A recent public outcry in China, sparked by a damning documentary about air pollution, was based on well-founded fear: Of the 100 million people who...
Analysis

China should join the great aid debate
17 March 2015
How much attention is being paid to China's growing role in the global humanitarian space? Not enough perhaps, but the wariness cuts both ways. James...
Analysis

How to help ex-rebels adjust to peace
27 February 2015
Job-creation schemes are the traditional way to tackle the post-conflict problem of unemployed ex-fighters and to reduce the threat they can pose to peace and...
Analysis

3 tips for WHO's new director for Africa
24 February 2015
The World Health Organization says the number of new Ebola cases per week rose twice this month for the first time since December. This rise...
Analysis

Does celebrity advocacy actually work?
13 February 2015
This week was a fanfare for celebrity humanitarians: Forest Whitaker appealed for peace in South Sudan alongside UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos; Angelina...
Analysis

Sexual violence – what use is law?
30 January 2015
Through conflict after conflict, sexual violence persists, not just as individual crimes but as a weapon of war, from the Balkans to the Congo, from...