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A daily five-minute briefing on the most important humanitarian news from around the world. Now part of The Human Family.
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: a vaccine trial called Tumaini, meaning "hope," begins in the Democratic Republic of the Congo against the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, and 20 people in Kenya return home healthy after…
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: India moves tens of thousands of people to safety ahead of Cyclone Arnab. In Yemen, aid groups rush medicine to Taiz as fighting drives displacement and cholera risk. Around 36,000…
A nurse is killed responding to an Ebola alert in the DR Congo, and Uganda orders 21-day quarantine for citizens returning from Congo. Gaza's hunger deepens as WFP cuts aid and 10 of 17 bakeries close, while 32…
Drought linked to El Niño threatens Sudan's harvests as food aid is cut, and 32 governments warn of a growing risk of famine. Hyderabad, India, faces a drinking water emergency, while Singapore says tap water stays…
A magnitude 7 earthquake in a remote, high-altitude part of Tibet kills 16 people and injures 76, as Typhoon Champi heads toward Japan's Kyushu island. Oxfam warns that funding for what could be the strongest El Niño…
Typhoon Champi shuts schools, offices and hundreds of flights in Taiwan, leaving one person dead and more than 170 injured, as Japan's Okinawa islands face power cuts and waves up to 12 meters. In Yemen, fighting and…
The UN warns the current El Niño could be the strongest on record, with up to 50 million people facing more hunger, as violent Typhoon Champi bears down on Taiwan and Japan's southern Okinawa islands. In South…
In this inaugural journey of the Humanitarian Explorer, we look beyond the surface of the week's headlines to find the interconnected stories of our global family. We begin by examining the profound challenges facing…