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Nigeria: Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) - Summary of Movements in Borno State, Dashboard: 490 (6 - 12 October 2025) #Refugees

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Nigeria: Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Emergency Tracking Tool (ETT) - Summary of Movements in Borno State, Dashboard: 490 (6 - 12 October 2025)

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

NEW REPORT 🧵 Displacement & Survival in Tigray Today @hpn4tigray.bsky.social released the second report of our series. The first looked at displacement trends. This looks at how people are surviving. The primary source of data comes from IOM-DTM IDP site assessments. /1 mailchi.mp/hpn4tigray/i...

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Displacement & Survival in Tigray (Part 2)

Duke Burbridge's analysis for HPN4Tigray

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Difficult to overstate how much blood RFK and Trump will have on their hands in the coming years. Difficult to overstate how many innocent kids will die as a result of the people who cast votes for Trump last November.

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 03/06/2025

These ships honor giants of American history — people like Marylanders Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman, who helped forge a stronger, more powerful nation and made us a global example of freedom in action. This is repulsive.

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Navy mulls new name for USNS Harvey Milk and ships named for civil rights leaders

The Navy is considering renaming naval ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and others named for prominent Americans.

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The third recommendation is also complicated: ☑️Convene a donor conference to develop a new humanitarian response plan in a fully transparent way with input from local stakeholders that reflect groups who are in particular need of support.

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

The second recommendation is more complicated: ☑️Convene a second cessation of hostilities conference to negotiate the return of land stolen from displaced Tigrayans. NOT a national dialogue. Everyone doesn't need to talk. This is about stolen land and illegal occupation. /9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

RECOMMENDATIONS I make three urgent recommendations in the report: The first recommendation is simple. ☑️Keep food aid going to avoid starvation. /8

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

5⃣ The same is true for medicine. There were only two IDP hosting sites (out of 675) reporting that medicine was available and affordable to IDPs. Chronic conditions or even common ones can be lethal without medicine. /7

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

4⃣ When IDPs are sick, they cannot get help. Access to medical care is improving at a glacial pace in Tigray. It is still largely inaccessible due to scarcity of resources, medicine, and basic equipment and supplies. /6

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

3⃣ Malaria and diarrhea are the greatest health fears for displaced people in Tigray, as well as malnutrition, persistent cough, skin infection, and cholera. These concerns are exacerbated by the lack of medicine and medical care. /5

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

2⃣ Lack of food is still the greatest concern for displaced people in Tigray, but not the only one. This means that they still need food aid. This will continue until the political courage is found to restore Tigray to its prewar borders. /4

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

OVERVIEW The most critical findings, in my analysis, follow: 1⃣ Formal humanitarian aid played a major role in the survival of displaced people in Tigray, probably for the first time since the invasion in 2020. Support from the host community was still more prevalent. /3

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Bottom line: Aid groups and hosts were largely successful in getting displaced people in Tigray through 2024. But they are still doing disaster response until donors and politicians address the immediate causes of displacement and devastation. /2

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Displacement & Survival in Tigray (Part 2)

Duke Burbridge's analysis for HPN4Tigray

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Happy Saturday to both of you. 🙂

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Conflict and Environment Observatory @ceobs.org · 21/05/2025

The war in #Sudan has profoundly impacted its environment but these consequences have received little attention. Our new overview details key incidents and trends that pose risks to Sudan’s people and ecosystems. ceobs.org/the-environm... 🧵⬇️1/7 #السودان

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The environmental costs of the war in Sudan - CEOBS

CEOBS has been helping UNEP monitor the environmental consequences of the war in Sudan since 2023, here's what we have found.

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Laurent Bonnefoy @laurentbonnefoy.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

In the meantime in Yemen. "Almost five months into 2025, the Yemen Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is less than 10 per cent funded, preventing critical aid delivery to millions of people across the country" www.nrc.no/news/2025/ma...

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116 aid organisations call for immediate action to pull Yemen back from the brink of catastrophe

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Rift Valley Institute @rvinews.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

NEW REPORT | MINOR DEMARCATIONS MICRO-DAMS—MAJOR DRAMA? @jowedekind.bsky.social and Kedir Jamal examine how admin changes, micro-dams and regional rivalries in the Oromia–Somali borderlands risk reigniting conflict and unsettling fragile peace. Read more: bit.ly/4mm7WtI #Ethiopia

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that Biden book and cancer diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans A vengeful Trump has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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The Joe Biden cancer story that matters most | Will Bunch Newsletter

Plus, why are Democrats aiding Trump’s crypto scam?

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Long overdue progress toward justice for the people of #Tigray. legalactionworldwide.org/accountabili...

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I hope that you will find the report insightful. I am fortunate that I do not need to be paid for this, but the doctors and nurses in @hpn4tigray.bsky.social's programs cannot work pro-bono. Please help if you can. 🙏 givebutter.com/today

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HPN4Tigray's Rapid Response Campaign

Please Give and Be the Lifeline

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The people who are currently displaced in #Tigray are still trying to survive a genocide. They have been through unimaginable trauma and need to be allowed to return to their homes. They must not be ignored or deprioritized any longer. 9/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The only real solution for the displacement crisis is for Tigray to be restored to its pre-war borders. Most of the people who are displaced come from areas of Tigray that remain under illegal occupation. 8/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Furthermore, humanitarian assessments of Tigray must be designed to include displaced people. The SMART+ survey excluded 83% of displaced children, including every location on the table below, which accounts for most of the missing population. 7/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Without important data on the things included in the 2024 assessments like child malnutrition, mortality, water and sanitation, health, and physical protection; this population drop in the most vulnerable age groups merits urgent investigation. 6/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The SMART+ Malnutrition Survey was conducted in June, but urban areas were ignored. The multi-sectoral needs assessment was conducted in August, but did not cover Mekelle or the Northwestern zone. 5/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

We should know a lot about displaced children and older people in Tigray and their living conditions, because two major humanitarian assessments were conducted in the second half of 2024. However, both studies were designed to avoid displaced populations. 4/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

There are many possible reasons why this population drop happened: some are positive, like safe returns; other possible causes are fairly benign, like errors or corrections in the data; but some possible causes are the worst-case outcomes. 3/9 addisstandard.com/death-toll-c...

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Death toll climbs in Tigray’s IDP centers amid aid shortages, political strife - Addis Standard

Death toll climbs in Tigray’s IDP centers amid aid shortages, political strife Addis Standard Analysis -

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The most alarming finding. According to the IOM-DTM IDP hosting site assessments, the most vulnerable displaced population in Tigray dropped by 40% between Aug 2024 and Jan 2025, while the least vulnerable age group only declined by 5%. 2/9

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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I invite everyone to read the first of @HPN4Tigray’s “Displacement and Survival in Tigray” series, which will focus on the conditions of and facing people who are still displaced in Tigray more than two years after the Pretoria Agreement. Summary Thread (1/9) mailchi.mp/hpn4tigray/i...

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Health Professionals Network for Tigray @hpn4tigray.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🚨 Urgent 38,775 babies & 15,729 seniors disappeared from Tigray IDP sites in just 4 months. Data gaps or deeper crisis? @burbridgeduke.bsky.social's analysis for @hpn4tigray.bsky.social reveals hidden realities of displacement. Read now & subscribe ⤵️ mailchi.mp/hpn4tigray/i... #TigrayCrisis #idps

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Displacement & Survival in Tigray (Part 1) — An HPN4Tigray Report by Duke Burbridge

Data gaps or crisis?

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Health Professionals Network for Tigray @hpn4tigray.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🎉We’re halfway to our goal thanks to YOU! In less than a week, we see who won the raffle for the stunning "Mother" print by the incredible artist, Gelila Reda. Please give and share so others can have the opportunity to #BeTheLifeline by supporting urgent care. 💝 givebutter.com/today

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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The term “Western values” – like its counterpart “African values” – has in fact always been more wineskin than wine. Rather than a codification of particular values, it is a framework for legitimating and justifying actions by Western (or African) states.

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The end of Western values

The selective moralising of the Western-led global order has been exposed for the lie it always was. It’s time to return to real values.

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