New Humanitarian: To repair trust, we have to listen and then act Francesco Rocca, president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies “There is a troubling gap between the way humanitarian actors see themselves and the way they are perceived by the people they set out…

Council on Foreign Relations: Nigeria’s Feud With INGOs Is a Gift to Boko Haram. It Must End. In this guest post, Bulama Bukarti, sub-Saharan Africa analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, discusses the suspension and reinstatement of international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) operating in northeastern Nigeria. These organizations…

AP: TB, armed guards, lack of food at U.N. migrant center in Libya (Hinnant et al., 12/6). AP: U.N. says Zimbabwe’s cash shortage hurts aid delivery efforts (12/5). CIDRAP News: Typhoid vaccine shows protection in phase 3 trial (Dall, 12/5). The Telegraph: ‘Ground breaking’ typhoid vaccine reduces infections by 80…

AFP/Al Jazeera: Doctors treating Ebola flee DR Congo’s east amid deadly violence “The non-profit group Doctors Without Borders (MSF) pulled its foreign staff out of an eastern region of Democratic Republic of Congo after an armed group tried to enter its compound…” (12/4). Reuters: Measles toll in Congo exceeds 5,000,…

New York Times: In Syria, Health Workers Risk Becoming ‘Enemies of the State’ “…On Wednesday, Physicians for Human Rights, a group that has documented the collapse of Syria’s health care system, released a study asserting that over the course of the war, President Bashar al-Assad has successfully made medical assistance…

AP: Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals (Neergaard, 12/4). BBC: Air pollution in Nairobi leaves Kenyan children struggling to breathe (Serwanjja, 12/4). Devex: In wake of safeguarding scandal, IPPF approves organizational overhaul (Edwards, 12/5). Devex: Q&A: WASH business: A mixed business model in waste-to-value (Ravelo, 12/5). Devex: Q&A:…

The Guardian: Record rise in attacks on healthcare workers leaves ‘millions at risk’ — U.N. “Attacks on healthcare workers have reached a record high according to a U.N. report that predicts a ‘bleak outlook’ for the world’s poorest people due to intense armed conflict and the climate emergency. The number…

New York Times: Venezuelans’ Struggle to Survive, Told in Pictures Nicholas Kristof, New York Times opinion columnist, and Fabiola Ferrero, photographer “To visit Venezuela today is to see how misrule can shatter a country. Years of corrupt, incompetent, and autocratic rule have left Venezuelans hungry and children dying for want…

CIDRAP News: More snags for DRC Ebola response; rebel attack in Oicha “With the Ebola response at a standstill due to recent attacks in two Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) hot spots, a 2-day general strike has now sidelined all response activities in North Kivu province, according a World…

Bloomberg: Fighting Malaria with Drones (12/4). CIDRAP News: Novel additions to malaria bed nets increase effectiveness (Soucheray, 12/3). Devex: The environmental impact of balancing the food system is still unknown (Cornish, 12/4). Devex: Biometrics use is becoming routine. Can regulation catch up? (Lieberman, 12/4). Homeland Preparedness News: WHO report details…