Are “uncomfortable conversations” key to decolonising organisations? On the latest #DecoloniseHow podcast, researcher Jess Crombie and journalist Chika Oduah certainly think so. What conversations do you think you need to have? 🎧: https://bit.ly/4eDvgQN

Your weekly humanitarian briefing, straight from our editors ⬇️ https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06/19/iran-us-ceasefire-ebola-cases-surge-aid-sector-crisis-cheat-sheet

Here’s what’s on the radar of our news editors this week ⬇️ 🔗 https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06/19/iran-us-ceasefire-ebola-cases-surge-aid-sector-crisis-cheat-sheet

📰 The comforting theory that one does more good for Gaza inside the media system than out has now been tested for more than two years. The dissent was raised and absorbed. The institution did not reform; it waited the dissenters out. Read the latest Decolonise How? ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4eg28A6

$3,500 for steel pipes $1,000 for nylon $1,500 for used floor tiles $1,700 for an enclosure for a toilet This is what it costs to build a shelter for a family in the Gaza Strip today, journalist Mohamed al-Astal explains ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4goGiM9

🔎 Our Caucasia foreign correspondent Patrick Gathara visits Oslo in the Far Northern kingdom of Norway – where flavour is scarce, the monarch absolute, and a resilient people await the African aid that might save them. Read his full report here ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4alKGIf

Here's last week's roundup of global crisis news from our editors ⬇️ 🔗 https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06/12/ai-drones-ebola-containment-us-food-aid-cheat-sheet

Missed this week's humanitarian headlines? Here's a quick catch-up from our editors ⬇️ 🔗 https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06/12/ai-drones-ebola-containment-us-food-aid-cheat-sheet

Read this week's humanitarian headlines, curated by our editors ⬇️ https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/06/12/ai-drones-ebola-containment-us-food-aid-cheat-sheet

🚨 New newsletter: The World Food Programme won’t talk about its cyber-attack, but some are calling for an independent probe into what may be the biggest breach of humanitarian beneficiary data on record. 🔗 Read the full newsletter here: https://bit.ly/4usutYH

Uganda is insisting on restricting cross-border movement with Congo to contain the Ebola outbreak but businesses, truckers, and communities near the border hate the measure. Humanitarian agencies also say closures as an epidemic response don’t work. Read more here ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4uxLKjh

🏥 "Supplies enter in a trickle, and that trickle now decides whether people live or die." Read our latest dispatch from Gaza's Nasser Hospital, the largest medical facility in southern Gaza, and one of the few still operating ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4eny7xf

📰 Inklings newsletter: Any way you count it, the numbers suggest a stark toll: Nearly every person still in Gaza has had their personal data exposed in WFP cyber-attack. buff.ly/4M8xmcq

🗣️ “The food programme is often seen to be the cowboys. They push the envelope.” Notes on the WFP cyber-attack: buff.ly/4M8xmcq

🗣️ “What’s the point? I joined the meeting, and I have to say yes.” The power imbalances behind UN pooled fund decisions: https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026/06/08/why-local-organisations-are-frustrated-un-pooled-funds

📰 Inklings newsletter: Notes on how aid works, from @newhumanitarian’s policy desk. Sign up here ⬇️ buff.ly/4M8xmcq

🗞️ In the latest Inklings aid policy newsletter: Notes on the WFP Gaza cyber-attack. What WFP is leaving out, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

🚨 Inklings newsletter: How many people is 600,000 households, exactly? The World Food Programme isn’t saying, but the cyber-attack exposing Gazans’ personal info may be the biggest in history.

“It makes vulnerable people feel even more vulnerable.” A World Food Programme data breach exposes personal info – including location data – belonging to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. buff.ly/YNbP6RL

🚨 It may be the biggest-ever breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date: A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to 600,000 households in Palestine.

A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to some 600,000 households in Palestine. It may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date. buff.ly/YNbP6RL

📝 “If you're going to cover something well and accurately, you need that local knowledge and expertise.” In the latest Decolonise How? eteran editors discuss the pitfalls and opportunities that come with trying to reform a newsroom from within. Listen to the full episode 🎧: https://bit.ly/4dMVuQg

Years after the killing of a refugee in a remote camp in Agadez, Niger, the death and the protest movement it helped engender are a window into the failures of the global refugee system⬇️ https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations/2026/05/25/unending-saga-sudanese-refugees-trapped-niger-agadez

💡 A global pooled fund? A single UN humanitarian agency? Three new humanitarian principles and a down-shift on “neutrality”? There’s a new blueprint for aid reform. Will it fly?

🗣️ The World Humanitarian Summit named the problem. It didn’t create consequences for failing to act, its former secretariat chief writes: buff.ly/7DC5yDv

The second leg of Patrick Gathara's voyage to Caucasia takes him to conflict-ridden Scotland and northern England:

The humanitarian system must be inverted and revamped – armed with new principles, independent financing, a far smaller footprint, and oversight mechanisms with the teeth to enforce, a Lancet commission says. buff.ly/pFgQDbr

The Israeli military has intercepted another 41 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza, after intercepting 22 boats last month. Read Nour ElAssy's piece on why this flotilla is more important than ever: buff.ly/Cw9LlW8

Can refugee self-reliance truly exist in an economy marked by desperate scarcity?

“I have been learning to catch kindness in the paths I cross and the people I meet.” www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/firs...

The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group is trying to extract money from relief organisations working in occupied areas in eastern DR Congo. Entry visas have been imposed and taxes demanded on staff salaries and rented properties. buff.ly/k8TYlKi

🗣️ “I avoid feelings so I don’t collapse. And then I feel nothing at all.” A humanitarian reflects on his PTSD, and what aid groups owe their staff.

@alibomaye.bsky.social has an issue with the term ‘local journalist’ because “it becomes a class distinction in the media world.” Listen why. 🎧: buff.ly/Du9yp4F

Sudanese authorities have deported thousands of South Sudanese over the past year in raids that have led to killings, family separations, and prolonged detention. buff.ly/WptEimM

The latest #DecoloniseHow podcast asks who gets to tell the story. Patrick Gathara sits down with TNH’s Ali Latifi and Ahmer Khan to discuss the role of local journalists. 🎧: buff.ly/Du9yp4F

The rise and fall of a remote sea route between Panama and Colombia shows how fluctuating US policies have exposed people to dire risks.

@alibomaye.bsky.social says that being a local journalist means “you are questioned more in terms of your reporting. You're paid less. You're given fewer opportunities.” In our latest #DecoloniseHow podcast, he explains why they need more respect in the industry. 🎧: buff.ly/Du9yp4F

“We don’t expect the ships to arrive. We expect the ships to exist.” buff.ly/xoP0Wtf

“We are fighting political and cultural wars. Wars that are not ours” – how US aid agreements are more about domestic policy than fully benefitting local communities. buff.ly/1jzM5jA

Abortion rights and marginalised communities pay the price of Washington's new aid strategy. buff.ly/cMtT8Jf

The push for new and harsher legislation – despite existing colonial-era laws that punishes gay sexual relations – reflects an effort to broaden both the scope and enforcement of criminalisation.

🗞️ In the latest Inklings newsletter: Diversity is back at the International Rescue Committee – but only in one country. buff.ly/F5LTh9G

In case you haven’t been keeping tabs on the humanitarian news headlines this week, here’s a quick catch-up from our specialist editors: ⬇️

📈 The Norwegian Refugee Council says it wants to be an “enabler” for local aid. It also just took $58 million from UN pooled funds that largely sidelined local groups. buff.ly/F5LTh9G

Panic, rumours, and popular justice followed the JNIM attacks in and around Mali’s capital – alongside fear of what comes next. Read this first person account from the ground.

Unprecedented attacks shock Mali, Israel seizes Gaza flotilla, and a “wake-up call” for what’s driving climate change – all in this week’s Cheat Sheet: buff.ly/ia821zB

Coordinated attacks on Bamako and other cities mark a dramatic escalation in Mali’s conflict. Read this first person dispatch from the capital to understand what’s at stake. buff.ly/WHok3I0

🗞️ In the latest Inklings newsletter: Why a Goldman Sachs strategist went on a “personal humanitarian mission” to Sudan as a guest of the UN.

🚨 New Inklings newsletter: Diversity is back at the IRC (at least in one country), Tom Fletcher’s cameo, and NRC’s local aid spin.

In the flashpoint Sudanese city of El Obeid, humanitarian response has evolved from a set of occasional acts of solidarity – mobilised for when there is a need – into a fully-fledged system of everyday life managed by the residents themselves.