Analysis that reads the data behind the headline.
World Humanitarian Day 2026 & Aid Worker Security
World Humanitarian Day marks the 23rd anniversary of the Canal Hotel bombing in Baghdad. The commemoration is built on a count of the dead, injured and kidnapped. That count now misses the fastest-growing threat to humanitarian staff, and the weapon most responsible for reshaping it has no place in the taxonomy at all.
Protection Funding 2021–2026: The Cuts Reached the Evidence
Protection is the part of humanitarian response that is hardest to defend in a shrinking budget and hardest to rebuild once cut. It does not deliver a tonnage f…
Colombia Earthquakes Situation Update
At 07:34 on Monday 10 August 2026, as children travelled to school and cities began the working week, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia, its ep…
Ceuta: Anatomy of a 72-Hour Border Crisis
Over roughly 72 hours at the end of July 2026, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 people crossed from Morocco into Ceuta, the Spanish enclave on North Africa's coast…
Global Humanitarian Assistance 2026: The Humanitarian System's Great Contraction
ALNAP's Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2026 documents the worst year in the humanitarian system's recent history. Total international humanitarian assist…
