On October 23rd, Mark Lowcock, the United Nation’s under-secretary for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Coordinator (OACH) gave a briefing about the famine in Yemen. He described it as “much bigger than anything any professional have seen in their life”. Today, 8 million people are dependent on emergency food aid and this figure will anytime soon […]
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Crisis in Cameroon: A Headline Missed by the Media
The current crisis in Cameroon isn’t one that has made the front pages of many newspapers, being overshadowed by multiple other issues including Brexit, Trump and the ongoing refugee crisis, however this does not make Cameroon any less deserving of our attention, due to 160,000 of its population already having been displaced, with 21,000 fleeing […]
Paris Agreement – An historic win, or a colossal failure?
When the result of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or CMP 11, was announced, many felt joyous. Finally, 196 countries had banded together and produced a 12-page document that embodied global recognition and cooperation against the issue of global warming. Yet, a few cranky cynics like myself harboured a little more doubt over this […]
North Korea and the hypocrisy of humanitarian intervention
In the ‘new world order’ of the 21st Century, western states sell wars as the takedown of tyrants in the name of morality. George W Bush called for war in Iraq to remove the “homicidal dictator” Saddam Hussein and “liberate the Iraqi people”. Obama justified intervention in Libya to stop the “colonial crusader” Gaddafi, who […]