Key factors raising new challenges and likely to worsen lives for millions in crisis hotspots over the coming year: ⬇️.

The lack of accountability over sexual violence crimes in Tigray, Amhara and Afar has triggered yet more violence, says a new report by Physicians for Human Rights and the Organisation for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa.

The author fought during the Ethiopia-Tigray war. He was fighting to defend his family, his land and his people. This time is different. Tigrayans are being dragged into a conflict that’s about naked political ambition – and many want no part in it.

Afghan returnees tell The New Humanitarian that while Israel was raining down bombs on Iran, they were being subjected to vigilante violence and false claims of spying for Tel Aviv. ⬇️.

Tigray’s political class is split between support for Ethiopia or Eritrea, and Tigrayans fear they will pay the price. Read this powerful testimony from a young Tigrayan who fears a return to war: ⬇️

We’re thrilled to welcome @ahmermkhan as The New Humanitarian’s fourth Humanitarian Reporting Fellow!. Ahmer is an award-winning, two-time Emmy-nominated multimedia journalist, filmmaker, and photographer with over a decade of experience reporting across South Asia. His.

The fragmentation of armed groups competing over territory where lucrative drug production, drug smuggling and illegal mining activities take place in Colombia is driving a new surge in violence. But the root causes of the conflict have been decades in the making. Read: ⬇️.

Sexual violence is increasingly being normalised in Ethiopia’s conflicts, warns a new report by @P4HR and the Organisation for Justice and Accountability in the Horn of Africa. ⬇️ .

Read our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. ⬇️ .

A new report has found Ethiopian soldiers and their Eritrean and ethnic-militia allies committed grave sexual violence crimes during the Tigray war, constituting “war crimes and crimes against humanity”. See here: ⬇️ .

Nearly a decade after the 2016 peace agreement, Colombia is experiencing a new surge in armed violence, with conflict related violent events increasing by 45% in the first three months of 2025 compared to the same period last year. How did we get here? Read our explainer here: ⬇️.

To kick off the mini series “Colombian fighting for their own peace”, which explores the different ways Colombians affected by violence try to contribute to peacebuilding, we wrote a story providing a snapshot of the country’s current situation in four graphs.

Mass displacement, lost livelihoods, and of victims of explosive devices: As violence escalates in Colombia, aid groups register the worst humanitarian consequences of the past eight years. Here’s the data behind the story:.

"I write. I speak. I document. I tell stories. Because that’s the only thing I can still do for them from here. I can’t send bread, but I can send words. I can’t stop the missiles, but I can scream with their voice.". Rita Baroud's evacuation diary: .

"We are not doctors or therapists," admitted one Voluntary Health Team member. "But we listen. We show up. That's what we can offer." .

With formal systems scaled back, unpaid Village Health Teams have become the backbone of the community GBV response. Read more here 👇 .

For many refugees, who fled their homes with little more than the clothes on their backs, the ability to generate income and contribute to their families' welfare provides a psychological lifeline as important as the material benefits.

Community and refugee groups are doing a remarkable job, but they need help, writes Nanfuka Fatuma:.

A former inmate of Iran’s most notorious prison says: “For many Iranians, nothing symbolises state repression more than Evin.” But seeing Israel bomb the facility brought little solace.

A former prisoner says she felt “relief” and “terror” when she learned that Israel had bombed Iran’s most notorious detention centre, Evin prison.

“I had once hoped that the great iron gate of Evin would fall – not from an airstrike, but opened by the people,” writes former prisoner Saeedeh Fathi. Read her first person article here: .