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Yemen risks new cholera outbreak as rainy season begins

Health – May 3, 2018

Boys lie on beds while being treated at a cholera treatment center in Sanaa, Yemen October 8, 2017. Picture taken October 8, 2017.

Red Cross plans to fight disasters with fast funding

Disaster mitigation – May 8, 2018

A man with a child walks in a flooded area as he returns home from a market in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, August 19, 2017

Auto repair shop jump-starts Ugandan child soldiers into new lives

Conflict – May 9, 2018

Youths sit in the Baka Youth Training Centre in Gulu, Uganda, March 29, 2018.

Ten years after Sichuan, China transforms quake preparedness, but Asia lags

Disaster mitigation – May 11, 2018

Members of a rescue team take part in a rescue skills competition ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, in Mianyang, Sichuan province, China, May 10, 2018

'We don't need men': Widows and rebel wives rebuild war-scarred Uganda

Women – May 15, 2018

Paska Akello sits in her house in Wilpii village, Paicho sub-county, Gulu district in Northern Uganda, March 26, 2018.

Education and roads key to withstanding food crises - U.N.

Food – May 15, 2018

Men carry bags of food aid at the Kakuma refugee camp in northern Kenya, March 6, 2018. Picture taken March 6, 2018.

Global plan powers up to supply clean energy for refugees

Renewable energy – May 18, 2018

A man displays efficient cooking stoves in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp in an undated handout photo.

Educated Somali youth less likely to support violent groups - research

Conflict – May 18, 2018

via Mercy Corps

Are the global goals doomed to fail without better open data?

Open data – May 24, 2018

Employees work at their desks at Mediatrac, a data analytics start up company in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 13, 2016.

Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay join forces to bolster resilience along border

Resilience integration – May 30, 2018

via Climate and Development Knowledge Network

Climate disasters will hit women hardest, says 'Handmaid's Tale' author

Women – Jun 1, 2018

Canadian writer Margaret Atwood speaks during an interview at a hotel in Havana, Cuba, February 8, 2017

Lack of hope in South Sudan camps drives youth into gang crime

Conflict – Jun 4, 2018

Puok Barar, 16, poses for a portrait at his school in a Protection of Civilians (PoC) camp on the outskirts of Juba, South Sudan, March 23, 2018.

Armed with poetry and rap, South Sudan's young artists battle for peace

Conflict – Jun 5, 2018

Ayak Chol Deng Alak, 32, a doctor and poet, poses for a portrait in front of a mural by the art group AnaTaban, whose name means "I am tired" in Arabic, in Juba, South Sudan, March 22, 2018.

South Sudan's Sosywood: Coming soon to a screen near you?

Arts – Jun 6, 2018

An actor and the film crew prepare before a rehearsal in the office of Junub Open Space, a grassroots group that promotes social change in Juba, South Sudan, March 21, 2018.

The elderly Kenyan women weaving their way to a more sustainable future

Women – Jun 7, 2018

Catherine Kareaikwa and Regina Kaari weaving some baskets in Mathiga Village, Kenya on April 28, 2018.

U.N. launches $291m programme to save lives, build resilience in Haiti

Aid – Feb 9, 2017

via Jamaica Observer

Ignoring conflict undercuts disaster protection efforts, researchers warn

Conflict – Jun 8, 2018

A Niger soldier guards with his weapon pointed towards the border with neighbouring Nigeria, near the town of Diffa, Niger, June 21, 2016. Picture taken June 21, 2016.

Growth in aid funding slows for second year

Aid – Jun 19, 2018

Women hold food aid distributed by humanitarian institutions in Afrin, Syria March 20, 2018.

Venezuelans survive by smuggling over the waves to Trinidad

Migration – Jun 20, 2018

A fishing village where boats from Venezuela arrive pictured in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, May 24, 2018.

Conflict, climate change choke efforts to cure poverty, inequality - UN

Climate change – Jun 20, 2018

Boys receive free food distributed to the needy during the fasting month of Ramadan at the Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque in Baghdad, Iraq May 29, 2018.