Highest recorded incidence of acute food insecurity in DRC
27/3/2025: UN food agencies report that an alarming 28 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now facing acute hunger, including 3.9 million experiencing emergency levels of hunger. Conflict, economic instability and surging food prices are contributory factors.
Source: World Food Programme
How to reinforce the multilateral climate system in 2025
27/3/2025: With so many challenges facing the multilateral system, the President of last year's COP29 in Azerbaijan looks ahead to COP30 in Brazil. Each country needs to honour their respective commitments to provide climate finance and develop an ambitious national climate plan.
Source: Climate Home News
Is the UN a target of the US rampage?
26/3/2025: Elon Musk, the tech billionaire, who acts as a virtual Prime Minister to President Trump, has called on the US to exit both NATO and the UN. The threat against the UN has been reinforced following a move by several Republican lawmakers who claim that the organization does not align with the “America First” agenda.
Source: Inter Press Service
Yemen faces devastating aid crisis after a decade of conflict
26/3/2025: A decade after the start of the conflict in Yemen, the country remains deeply divided, facing economic freefall. The number of people estimated to experience food insecurity is expected to rise far beyond the current figure of 17 million due to global cuts to aid funding. US funding has stopped overnight, affecting half of humanitarian programmes in Yemen.
Source: Oxfam International
Humanitarian data: the deeper damage wrought by US cuts
25/3/2025: From household health surveys on the ground to satellite images taken from space, the vast information networks that inform the humanitarian system are teetering on the brink of “collapse” as a result of the US government budget cuts.
Source: The New Humanitarian
Decades of progress in reducing child deaths under threat
25/3/2025: Since 2000, child deaths have dropped by more than half and stillbirths by over a third, fuelled by sustained investments in child survival worldwide. Decades of progress are now at risk as major donors have announced or indicated significant funding cuts to aid ahead.
Source: World Health Organization
Has USAID spending been cut by less than we thought?
24/3/2025: Figures from the Center for Global Development, based on leaked lists of terminated and retained programs, place USAID spending cuts at around 34% — way lower than estimates based just on the number of canceled programs.
Source: Devex
DR Congo crisis deepens as funding cuts hit humanitarian aid
21/3/2025: Critical funding gaps are severely hampering humanitarian efforts in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, pushing an already dire humanitarian situation closer to catastrophe. In and around the city of Goma in North Kivu, sites that were previously home to 400,000 internally displaced people have all been destroyed.
Source: UN Refugee Agency
Funding cuts bring worldwide disruptions in tuberculosis services
20/3/2025: The World Health Organization is calling for urgent investment of resources to protect tuberculosis (TB) care. Reports reveal that severe disruptions in the TB response are seen across several of the highest-burden countries following recent funding cuts.
Source: World Health Organization
Peru: veto ‘anti-NGO’ law
20/3/2025: Human Rights Watch has called on Peruvian President Dina Boluarte to veto a bill approved by Congress that would severely restrict the work of independent journalists and civil society organizations. The bill’s vague language would, in practice, allow the government to arbitrarily penalize groups that criticize its policies.
Source: Human Rights Watch