The New Humanitarian

05/06/2026

🚨 Inklings newsletter: How many people is 600,000 households, exactly? The World Food Programme isn’t saying, but the cyber-attack exposing Gazans’ personal info may be the biggest in history.

Notes on how aid works: What WFP leaves out of data breach reports, the humanitarian reset’s neglected crises, and Palantir.

04/06/2026

Patrick Gathara, Assal Rad & Sana Saeed on media ethics in crises.

03/06/2026

🚨 It may be the biggest-ever breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date: A cyber-attack targeting the World Food Programme has exposed sensitive personal information belonging to 600,000 households in Palestine.

With over 2 million people registered in Gaza, it may be the largest-known breach of humanitarian beneficiary data to date.

02/06/2026

“It’s been nothing but a disaster, and nobody seems to care.”

Mario Torres, a brilliant young student, left Venezuela at 18 years old in search of a better life. That was eight years ago. This is his story.

Mario Torres, a brilliant young student, left Venezuela at 18 years old in search of a better life. That was eight years ago. This is his story.

21/05/2026

🗣️ The World Humanitarian Summit named the problem. It didn’t create consequences for failing to act, its former secretariat chief writes:
https://buff.ly/7DC5yDv

From Grand Bargains to humanitarian resets, promises without enforcement leave reform plans adrift.

21/05/2026

The humanitarian system must be inverted and revamped – armed with new principles, independent financing, a far smaller footprint, and oversight mechanisms with the teeth to enforce, a Lancet commission says.
https://buff.ly/pFgQDbr

Ideas to revamp humanitarian aid: New principles, independent financing, a single UN agency, a smaller footprint, and oversight with teeth to enforce.

20/05/2026

The Israeli military has intercepted another 41 boats from the Global Sumud Flotilla attempting to break the blockade of Gaza, after intercepting 22 boats last month.

Read Nour ElAssy's piece on why this flotilla is more important than ever: https://buff.ly/xoP0Wtf

19/05/2026

Can refugee self-reliance truly exist in an economy marked by desperate scarcity?

19/05/2026

“I have been learning to catch kindness in the paths I cross and the people I meet.”

Stories of solidarity, from Ethiopia to Tanzania, Uganda to Rwanda.