For many of us, Gaza was on our mind when we watched and celebrated Spain’s triumph at the World Cup.

ODA funding has played a decisive role in reducing preventable mortality across LMICs over the past two decades, and the abrupt withdrawal of this support threatens to cause millions of avoidable deat...

US state department calls for the release of all detained healthcare workers as at least one arrested surgeon reported to be at risk of execution

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

The White House says its proposal would end the war on Gaza immediately if both sides accept.

Amnistía Internacional concluye que la concentración propalestina que acabó con la suspensión de la Vuelta "fue eminentemente pacífica". Según el Comité de los Derechos Humanos de la ONU, una protesta...

With famine declared and nearly 63,000 dead in less than two years, Philippe Lazzarini condemns the international community’s failure to act against Israel’s impunity

USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Grant makes US a direct backer of aid organization that reportedly has collaboration with Israeli government

Witnesses say Israeli forces opened fire on people near distribution point run by Israel-backed foundation

As an aid worker, I despaired at news of Israeli troops opening fire on people seeking food. This is no answer to our suffering, says Eyad Amawi of the Gaza Relief Committee

Aid agencies say the plan runs counter to humanitarian principles, is logistically unworkable and could put Gazans and workers at risk.

Here’s your list of 2025 books from authors on the continent and in the Diaspora, sorted by month. There’s absolutely no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notabl…

The World Food Programme suspended malnutrition treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children in Ethiopia this week due to severe funding shortages, the U.N. agency said, with millions more at risk of losing access to aid.

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid.

COVID and the 1918 flu pandemic gave us playbooks on how to prepare for the next pandemic. But we aren’t using it.

Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering.

Tobias Denskus blogs about international development, focusing on media, communication for social change & professionalism in the aid industry

A review of Egypt+100, edited by Ahmed Naji (2024)Thanks for reading Hwiccen Review’s second guest publication!

The number of cases globally has surged since 2021, as war and the climate crisis pile pressure on vaccine supplies

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.