List of Foreign Aid articles
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aleppo-crop The Cease-Fire in Syria Is, For Now, Back On
Failed ceasefires have become a common occurrence in Syria. The latest deal could be the last best hope for civilians and embattled rebels — if it holds.
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gettyimages-625076200 Will Foreign Aid Get Cut on Trump’s Chopping Block?
USAID is in the dark on Trump's plans, but Republicans in Congress could be the main defenders of foreign assistance.
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mosul-crop The Coming Humanitarian Crisis in Mosul, by the Numbers
Iraqi forces are on the cusp of liberating Mosul from the Islamic State. And the international community is bracing for impact.
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Internally displaced children displaced to a camp in Dibaga sub district in Erbil Governorate in Kurdistan, Iraqi Kurdistan on 27 September 2016. (Photo by Noe Falk Nielsen/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Civilians in Mosul Face ‘Impossible Choice’
The Iraqi Army’s push to retake the northern city could trigger a vast humanitarian crisis and fuel the country’s deep sectarian divide.
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Palestinian children hold posters of Mohammed Halabi (C), the Gaza director of World Vision, a major US-based Christian NGO, during a protest to support him in Gaza City on August 7, 2016. Israel charged Halabi with having diverted millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas and its armed wing. The Shin Bet internal security service said $7.2 million (6.5 million euros) given to World Vision had been diverted to Hamas each year, with some of it funding the Gaza Strip rulers' military campaign against Israel. / AFP / MAHMUD HAMS (Photo credit should read ) Israel’s ‘Unfair’ Trial: Suspected Hamas Agent Isn’t Getting Due Process, Says Amnesty
The Gaza director of a high-profile charity allegedly transferred tens of millions of dollars to Hamas.
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Abdul_Sattar_Edhi Pakistan Has Lost Its ‘Angel of Mercy’
Abdul Sattar Edhi was his country’s greatest living hero. Here’s hoping that his legacy persists in the hands of a new generation of humanitarians.
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Hammer_image1 The Disappearance of Dahlia Yehia
A 25-year-old American traveled to Nepal to volunteer after the earthquake. She found a friendly host on Couchsurfing.com. She was never heard from again.
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A Sudanese docker lifts his head cover as he unloads a US aid shipment organised by the US Agency for International Development and the World Food Programme at Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, on May 5, 2016. Dockers began unloading tens of thousands of tonnes of food from a US aid ship destined for war-torn areas of Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported. The bulk carrier Liberty Grace docked in Port Sudan with a cargo of 47,500 tonnes of sorghum, a staple food in Sudan. / AFP / ASHRAF SHAZLY (Photo credit should read ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images) USAID Should Become the Department of Nation-Building
Washington’s top development agency needs to focus on building governments, not democracies, in chaotic foreign countries.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (C) applauds on May 23, 2016 during the World Humanitarian Summit family photo session in Istanbul. The over 60 heads of state and government gathered for the two-day summit convened by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will have to defeat considerable scepticism that the event will turn into a well-intentioned but fruitless talking shop. / AFP / OZAN KOSE (Photo credit should read OZAN KOSE/AFP/Getty Images) Why the World Humanitarian Summit Meeting in Turkey Really Does Matter
John Norris told Foreign Policy readers that the Istanbul conference would be irrelevant. It wasn’t.
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In this photograph taken on December 27, 2015, an internally-displaced Afghan woman holds a child as she sits in front of her tent at refugee camp on the outskirts of HeratAFP PHOTO/AREF KARIMI / AFP / Aref Karimi (Photo credit should read ) The Millions Left Behind in Afghanistan
With war intensifying as U.S. and NATO troops head home, promises made to help the millions of internally displaced are woefully unfulfilled.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (C) meets Syrian refugees during his visit in Hay al-Tanak an impoverished district that was turned into an informal Syrian refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on March 25, 2016 . / AFP / Ibrahim Chalhoub (Photo credit should read ) Masters of Disasters?
The World Humanitarian Summit won’t solve the refugee crisis, but it’s an important first step to solving the really big problems.
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bkm The U.N.’s World Humanitarian Summit Is a Total Mess
The world urgently needs a new aid architecture to grapple with a massive, global refugee crisis. But this gathering in Istanbul could do more harm than good.
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Keenan_image_01-darker Dead Man’s Market and the Boy Gangs of Niger
Impoverished young men have menaced the city of Zinder with rapes and murders. Now Boko Haram wants to turn their ultra-violence into a weapon of war.
