Deleting self-reliance: what the SOHS 2026 finding looks like in a donor's own funding texts
Aid recipients asked for the chance to need aid less, and SOHS 2026 records that funding cuts went the other way. DG ECHO's Palestine decisions show how: the words nexus, resilience and self-reliance disappear from the text first, and the budgets follow.
El Nino 2026-27 in Eastern and Southern Africa
The 2026-27 El Niño set against PRISM's 26-year record for the 13 countries UNICEF named: floods east, drought south, 162 million children in exposed areas, 51.5 million people already in IPC Phase 3 or worse, and humanitarian plans 44.8% funded. With a decision window to February 2027 and a dated watchlist.
Nepal Flash Floods Situation Update
A major flash flood struck Rasuwa district after a sudden and intense surge of water entered the Bhote Koshi River from the Tibet (China) side at approximately 9:15 AM [on 26 August 2026]. The flood rapidly impacted the Timure, Rasuwagadhi, and Syabrubesi areas, causing significant damage to settlements, markets, police infrastructure, roads, and hydropower facilities.
Middle East Situation Update #4
6 months into the war the United States and Israel launched against Iran, displacement in Lebanon has fallen. More than 2 million people have moved back across the region, many under deportation or pressure, into conditions that cannot yet hold them.
Aid Worker Security in 2025
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 figure. Its outputs are presence, continuity, case files and analysis, and those are the first line items to go when donors narrow their funding around visibly life-saving delivery.
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 epicentre beneath San José del Palmar, a remote municipality in Chocó department.
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, by swimming around its breakwaters and forcing the Tarajal border fence.
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 assistance fell to US $33.3 billion in 2025, down 20% in one year and 30% from the 2022 peak. The system now runs on 2017-level resources while 300 million people are estimated to be in need
Venezuela Earthquakes Situation Update
Two consecutive shallow earthquakes, magnitude 7.2 followed by 7.5, struck north-central Venezuela on the evening of 24 June 2026. As of 26 June, OCHA reports a provisional official toll of 920 people dead and 3,360 injured, with at least 3,007 people displaced and more than 1,423 structures affected.
DRC: 2026 Ebola Outbreak
On 15 May 2026, authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo declared an Ebola outbreak after cases were confirmed in Ituri and North Kivu, with further cases later confirmed in South Kivu.
Does spending money on returning migrants work? Evidence from Africa and the Middle East
Financial leverage and enforcement infrastructure, the two key tools of the EU's externalisation strategy, have not produced sustained cooperation on returns in Middle Eastern and African countries.