Who is starving to death the people of Western Tigray in Ethiopia and, in effect, continuing to ethnically cleanse them? Answer: everyone through a conspiracy of federal punishment and infighting among Tigrayan authorities. What a betrayal! www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
Much is being said and speculated as we stay glued to the news on the Iran war that is gathering momentum. My own early assessment on NewsCentral TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCo5...
It is luck if or not some desperate person in conflict or disaster somewhere receives help or not. But even a random lottery should be fair. So, how honest is the global humanitarian lottery? I talk frankly to Thomas Byrnes in my Fading Causes Podcast. Watch/listen:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsm...
Adding more power hegemons to existing ones on broken #UN #SecurityCouncil may make it more representative but further entrench the new might-is-right world order, Hardly helpful for poor, small, struggling nations. My POV in panel debate on Al Jazeera Inside Story www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFM2...
βSacrificed on the altar of vice": As the world fixes on the abuse of uncounted Epstein victims, most unlikely to get justice, this extraordinary interview with Gisele Pelicot speaking on her own horrors & putting shame where it belongs is a must watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMA5...
Sudan was already the worldβs worst humanitarian crisis. it is now also the global famine capital. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zprr...
If you are damed if you do and damned if you dont, then what do you do? Well, you stay and deliver despite the risks - as MSF should do in Gaza. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2026/01...
I very much agree with most of this article: The careless, casual, crafty way in which partisan politicians, thoughtless activists, and remunerated lawyers use term genocide means it has lost its meaning and purpose - to bring accountability, deter, and prevent egregious crimes against humanity
Doing some research & struggling to find serious independent articles positive about Davos. Please suggest if you know. Meanwhile.. "dealmaking, not democracy at Davos www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...
Look forward to talking to the UN University of Peace in Costa Rica later today on The Foretold Genocide(s) in Sudan and the failure of international law and Responsibility to Protect - and why this happens again and again in many places - and surprises us everytime it does
Is democracy worth believing in let alone fighting and dying for? And even if so, is the majoritarian form it is most usually practiced and abused, not proving so toxic? Listen to my conversation with Francesc Badia in latest edition of my Fading Causes Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpi...
As the old international order vanishes o also does its accompanying international law. Without wasting too much time flogging dead horses, we should urgently debate new - perhaps very different - legal frameworks for our tough new era. My oped:
www.mukeshkapila.org/in-the-new-w...
Much a do about nothing as nothing changes with some new bums on seats at UN Security Council news.un.org/en/story/202...
Some of the worldβs most desperate people - worthiness of whose needs even God cant judge but UN is happy to do - receive a New Year blessing of two billion humanitarian crumbs from US. Hope they grovel suitably.. or else..My initial thoughts via this TV interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6BZ...
Resistance and resilience through acts of love in #Sudan wellcomecollection.org/stories/acts...
Women, men, children, old, young - none spared in #Sudan when it comes to rape and sexual torture. The heroes of this powerful docu speak courageously of their own experiences and challenge us to do something. In Arabic with English subtitles, MUST-WATCH
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFj5...
Christianity has been reduced to a cultural tourist attraction in its original homeland aje.io/al1olr
The year-end also marks end of first quarter-century of this Millennium. Global goal-setting (MDGs, SDGs) is failing as one prescription does not suit all nations. Why wait till 2030 to re-envision sustainable development strategies? My latest oped: www.mukeshkapila.org/a-quarter-ce...
It is not just the paramilitary RSF committing ethnic atrocities in Sudan but also the Sudan Armed Forces. Hardly surprising considering they were previous best buddies & jointly committing the 2003-4 Darfur genocide. Now they compete on atrocity stakes. www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/20...
Sorry ro see Oxfam still mired in its own troubles.https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/15/oxfam-gb-chief-reportedly-forced-out-over-serious-issues-with-her-leadership?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Is humanitarianism getting leaner, fitter for purpose? While principled & dealing robustly with dilemmas such as Taliban in Afghanistan or Rohingya and Myanmar dictators. Many other issues in revealing discussion with Alexander Matheou, Regional Director @ifrc.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7y...
Peace is too big a goal in relation to many current wars. But shouldnβt discourage those trying incl President Trump to cool heads & forge ceasefires teven if these dont last. My reflections on American involvement in several conflicts via this TRT interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-bp...
A potentially good choice: Former Iraqi president picked to lead UN Refugee Agency www.devex.com/news/exclusi...
Venezuelan icon Machado dedicates her Controversial Nobel Peace Prize to Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
This is how terrorists win whetther in Kashmir or Middle East or North Africa - split families and destroy communities aje.io/pu2efq
Colonialism was wrong & modern law rightly made it criminal but seeking historic reparations is just a way for current African leaders - many corrupt and even-more abusive of their own citizens - to draw attention away from their ongoing incompetences and worse. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#COP30 trundles on but enough for the climate crisis? My latest column at NationalNews argues that narrow quick-fix climate actions wont do the job. We must return to broader climate-sensitive development that is the true climate justice that many clamour for www.mukeshkapila.org/climate-just...
Strange Secretary Council resolution on Gaza Palestine with no UN role and little bits for everyone in it and not enough to please anyone fully. But still best show in town. Whether it sinks or swims depends mostly on Israel & sensible Palestinians @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2025/11/17/t...
OK - we know that former Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina was a nasty and murderous despot who betrayed her own people,..but a death sentence? How is that medieval mob-appeasing verdict going to help? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
The generals of Pakistan surpass their own past record of stupid arrogance if they ignored history to tangle with their own creation - Taliban of Afghanistan. Little to choose btw fundamentalists on both sides as Pakistan reaps the bitter harvest of what it sowed. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/w...
