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People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024.

Aid worker says they can’t operate after 7 World Center Kitchen staffers are killed in Israeli strike

Israel-Hamas war

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed seven aid workers from the relief group World Central Kitchen (WCK) overnight. Among the dead were three British nationals, an Australian, a Polish national, an American Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian. The World’s host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Sean Carroll, the CEO of ANERA, which works closely with WCK, about the incident.

A man carries an elderly woman as people continue to leave Irpin, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 8, 2022. 

Managing the aftermath: Part I

Critical State
Refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Nov. 21, 2020. Huge unknowns persist in the deadly conflict, but details of the involvement of nei

Tigray region faces deteriorating crisis 3 months into conflict

Conflict
An empty water bottle lays on the dirt behind a string of barbed wire

Crimes of compassion: US follows Europe’s lead in prosecuting those who help migrants

Immigration
A man crouches in the dirt surrounded by others as they review a few maps.

An aid worker is on trial for helping migrants. But groups like his are still doing their work.

Borders
Civil defense members carry a casualty after an airstrike in the rebel held area of al-Sukari in Aleppo.

A Chicago surgeon recounts a nightmarish journey through Aleppo

Conflict

Working in the besieged Syrian city tests the resolve of even the most daring doctors.

Taped-Nose Drone

Efforts to deploy drones for humanitarian purposes are hampered by public fears

Conflict

Drones may be best known for their surveillance and military capabilities, but there’s a growing movement to use them for humanitarian aid. Inventor Mark Jacobsen is building drones to deliver humanitarian aid to Syrians stuck inside their war-torn country. But as he’s learning, bureaucracy — combined with public fears about the use of drones — has hamstrung efforts to get that aid anywhere near the Syrian border.

Workers unload emergency medical aid from Medecins Sans Frontieres from a plane at Sanaa airport on April 13, 2015

Doctors Without Borders pleads: ‘Please allow the humanitarian actors to do their work’ in Yemen

Conflict

Marie-Elisabeth Ingres, the head of Doctors Without Borders’ mission in Yemen, says combat deaths are not the only human cost of the civil war there. Patients with treatable conditions are now at risk because Yemen is running out of drugs and doctors. She wants the international community to step up and help.

A Syrian refugee woman stands near her tent at the Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, January 15, 2015.

‘They told me they were going to melt me in acid if I continue the work I was doing’

Conflict

Lubna Shaheen was born in Homs, Syria. Soon after the revolution took off, she began volunteering as a humanitarian worker. The Syrian regime, however, wasn’t happy about her work.

African immigrants walk among rows of prefabricated container houses, which have replaced scores of tents, at the open centre for immigrants formerly known as "Tent City" in Hal Far, outside Valletta March 27, 2014. In 2013

Refugee camps are surprising hot spots of innovation

Development

We often think of refugee camps as places where people struggle to get their basic needs met. But a lot of times these needs become the basis for innovative technologies.