Police in Kashmir have charged photojournalist Masrat Zahra, a
@newhumanitarian
contributor, under India’s Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. She is accused of uploading “anti-national posts” to social media.
“This isn’t like the 21st century anymore; it’s more like the 16th or 17th. Patients just die in front of your eyes.”
@FredHarter
reports from Ethiopia:
“If we continue like this, I don’t think the food we have will last us even a month.”
@Thinink
examines Myanmar’s food fears as prices soar and conflict flares:
“This isn’t like the 21st century anymore; it’s more like the 16th or 17th. Patients just die in front of your eyes.”
@FredHarter
reports from Ethiopia:
Exclusive🧵:
Egyptian authorities are conducting mass deportations of thousands of Sudanese refugees fleeing a war zone and one of the world’s worst humanitarian emergencies.
The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in Egypt (
@rpegyorg
) have been investigating the
Aerial comparison photo of damaged bridge in Palu in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi, following earthquake and tsunami. Pic from Indonesia's disaster management agency,
@BNPB_Indonesia
, via
@AHACentre
“There is nowhere on Earth where the health of millions of people is more under threat.”
That is how the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, described the current situation in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
Aid convoys have not reached Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since mid-December. Will the government's ‘humanitarian truce’ solve the problem?
@MariaG_N
reports:
“The lack of consequences for the crimes committed in Tigray has made it easier for warring parties to commit further atrocities. The EU and other Human Rights Council member states must do their utmost to change that calculus as soon as possible.”
EXCLUSIVE: Israeli military demolished homes to make way for US Gaza aid pier. The destruction of civilian property to make way for a politically and logistically contentious aid delivery project could violate international law: ⬇️
“Unless Prime Minister Abiy and his allies are willing to take measures to really facilitate aid to Tigray and restore banking services... we’re just going to see things play out on the battlefield” –
@wdavison10
, senior analyst
@CrisisGroup
.
We’ve been warning about
#Tigray
ceasefire breaking down in the past few Cheat Sheets. That now seems to have happened after fighting flared around the region’s southern border and an airstrike hit its capital.
@PKleinfeld
explains what’s happening:
In some towns in Tigray, aid officials said acute shortages of medicine mean hospitals can now only provide advice to patients. Read more on the humanitarian blockade from
@MariaG_N
.
“This isn’t like the 21st century anymore; it’s more like the 16th or 17th. Patients just die in front of your eyes.”
@FredHarter
reports from Ethiopia:
“Unless Prime Minister Abiy and his allies are willing to take measures to really facilitate aid to Tigray and restore banking services... we’re just going to see things play out on the battlefield” –
@wdavison10
, senior analyst
@CrisisGroup
.
Aid workers and analysts said the expulsion of UN officials from Ethiopia was designed to remove critical voices ahead of a threatened military offensive on the blockaded Tigray region.
As Ethiopia’s conflict spreads beyond Tigray, international bodies must establish a robust investigative mechanism to pave the way for greater accountability, argues
@LaetitiaBader
of
@hrw
:
The Ethiopian government says – without offering specific evidence – that aid agencies have been smuggling help to rebels in Tigray. Staff are alarmed.
Hundreds of trucks are still waiting to head into Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region, which the UN’s emergency relief chief has described as “the worst place in the world to live in right now”.
Opinion: Stand with the people of Myanmar by directly supporting local aid groups – and not engaging with the perpetrators of the violence that’s fuelling humanitarian needs.
🚨 EXCLUSIVE | The senior leadership of
@WFP
in Ethiopia has resigned, shortly before the findings of a probe into the misappropriation of food aid in the country are due to be made public.
A survey of 614 people in Tigray was conducted from late February to early March by phone, and revealed that less than half of conflict-affected people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region had received help since the conflict began in November.
“If we keep making humanitarian work about throwing crumbs to the poor, versus giving tools to the poor to be lifted up from that total poverty, we will forever be in the business of being humanitarians.”
@chefjoseandres
on
#RethinkingHumanitarianism
:
“This isn’t like the 21st century anymore; it’s more like the 16th or 17th. Patients just die in front of your eyes.”
@FredHarter
reports from Ethiopia:
After lengthy delays and negotiations, 52
@UN
@WFP
aid trucks reached
#Tigray
today. But needs for food, fuel, and other humanitarian essentials require a constant flow.
Meet
@DreJoanneLiu
, paediatrician and former International President of Médecins Sans Frontières, and now, the newest member of the TNH board of directors.
“The lack of consequences for the crimes committed in Tigray has made it easier for warring parties to commit further atrocities. The EU and other Human Rights Council member states must do their utmost to change that calculus as soon as possible.”
A year after Eritrean forces massacred Tigrayan civilians in the Ethiopian town of Axum, nobody has been held accountable.
@LaetitiaBader
explains what can be done to prevent further atrocities from happening in the conflict:
Early aerial images of destruction around Palu, in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi, following earthquake and tsunami. Pic from Indonesia's disaster management agency,
@BNPB_Indonesia
, via
@AHACentre
.
SITUATION UPDATE No. 1 - Sulawesi Earthquake - 29 September 2018 - Our deepest condolences for the affected communities in Sulawesi especially in
#Donggala
and
#Palu
. Stay tuned to official channels for further information …
#bnpb
#gempa
#tsunami
Some of the worst atrocities in Tigray were by Eritrean soldiers allied to Ethiopia's military, who are accused of waging a campaign of rape and sexual slavery.
Drone strikes have become a hallmark of Ethiopia’s counterinsurgency campaigns – but hundreds of civilians are being killed in indiscriminate attacks, reports
@FredHarter
.
Left in the crosshairs of paramilitary groups, government security forces, militias fighting for control of natural resources and drug-trafficking routes, and now coronavirus, Colombia’s Emberá indigenous people are demanding assistance.
”What we have seen in Palestine, I do consider journalistic malpractice because there is an active refusal to showcase Palestinian voices.”
@MariamBarghouti
talks about media’s complicity in silencing Palestinian voices on What’s Unsaid podcast. ⬇️
Failing to acknowledge and address crimes committed by Ethiopian government forces and its allies in Tigray risks fuelling further abuses in the conflict, says
@hrw
’s
@LaetitiaBader
.
After a more than one-year investigation,
@NewHumanitarian
and
@TRF_Stories
have uncovered claims of sexual abuse or exploitation of more than 50 women by aid workers in Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read the investigation:
@NRC_Norway
and the Dutch branch of
@MSF
have been suspended in
#Ethiopia
after accusations of “disseminating misinformation”. What impact could this have on aid operations in Tigray, where hundreds of thousands face famine?
The war in Ethiopia is estimated to have directly killed hundreds of thousands of people. Among the victims were minority groups living mainly in Ethiopia’s Tigray and Amhara regions.
@claireLwilmot
reports.
On the Puente Internacional Simon Bolívar, the short bridge that is the main crossing point for Venezuelans into Colombia, the influx of desperate people is continuous; 550,000 Venezuelans now live in Colombia.
Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed says humanitarian relief is his top priority, but observers say access for international aid groups to Tigray is tied up with security concerns.
Two key relief organisations have been suspended for three months in
#Ethiopia
. With an aid blockade still in place – and the conflict in Tigray spreading – the humanitarian situation looks set to worsen.
@PKleinfeld
has the details:
Ethiopia’s government has launched a new offensive against rebel forces from Tigray, where malnutrition and starvation deaths are rising amid a months-long humanitarian blockade.
@MariaG_N
reports.
Abuses against civilians have spread from Tigray to neighbouring Amhara region, where aid groups are struggling to access communities in need.
@MariaG_N
reports on the expanding humanitarian toll of Ethiopia’s conflict:
The allegation that Israel is deliberately starving the population of Gaza is central to South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice. We spoke to famine expert Alex de Waal to find out more:
“A highly polarised, extremely divisive, political landscape, where highly bellicose narratives are used by not just ordinary individuals, but also the top leadership in the country... make it easy for all sides to blame aid organisations.” –
@awolallo
An aid blockade in
#Tigray
has led to increased concerns for the welfare of some 500 humanitarian workers based in Ethiopia’s northern region. National staff are most at risk. Read more:
‘There are no shelters in Gaza. There is no safe place.’ For an inside look at the worsening situation on the ground in Gaza, The New Humanitarian spoke on Monday to
@MahaGaza
, a Palestinian human rights activist and journalist reporting from the enclave.
As the death toll rises and thousands of survivors are trying to find shelter in freezing northwest Syria, many people are asking a simple question: Why can’t the UN send aid straight into the region from wherever it wants?
Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.
A thread👇:
The Lebanese Red Cross has opened first aid and triage stations "to help people with non-critical injuries" in Beirut as hospitals struggle to cope with thousands wounded by a massive explosion in the capital's port that has claimed dozens of lives.
Exciting news at
@newhumanitarian
! We're thrilled to welcome Ebele Okobi as our new CEO. With her background in tech, civil society, and a passion for justice, Ebele is poised to lead us into a new era of impact and innovation. Read more here:
An outspoken graffiti artist. A bystander blinded during protests. A pregnant woman navigating military clampdowns.
@Masratzahra
’s photos explore the shifting role of women and girls amid lockdowns and violence in Kashmir 📷:
Ethiopia’s truce lies in tatters.
A new round of fighting has deepened the humanitarian emergency in Tigray, where half the population is on the brink. We explain why the ceasefire has collapsed.
Thread 🧵:
🔴 Amhara forces took advantage of the war to seize Western
#Tigray
.
The brutal war was characterised by arbitrary arrests, killings, and deportations, uprooting hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans.
An aid blockade in
#Tigray
has aid groups struggling to function, and led to increased concerns about the welfare of hundreds of aid workers based in the region.
Aid groups preach neutrality. But many local aid workers believe they have to choose a side in post-coup
#Myanmar
.
@EmilyFishbein11
explores the implications:
“The place was littered with body parts of dead people, intact dead bodies, and survivors with missing limbs who were moaning in pain” – The civilian toll of Ethiopia’s drone wars.
Forces from
#Ethiopia
's Amhara region that borders
#Tigray
have been accused of “ethnic cleansing” for evicting hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans from western Tigray.
“...the coalition of Ethiopian Federal forces, Amhara regional forces, and Eritrean troops are committing starvation crimes on large scale” –
@WorldPeaceFdtn