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NGO Blue/Yellow co-founder Jonas Ohman puts an inert, drone-carried explosive on a drone at the NGO headquarters in Vilnius, Lithuania, in March 2026.
Governance

As the Ukraine War Intensifies, Lithuania Prepares Its Health System

by Bella May

After a record-breaking month for missile strikes in Ukraine, Lithuanian medical professionals are learning the basics of war medicine to prepare for a possible attack

A view of a destroyed ward in Khartoum Hospital, in Khartoum, on Sudan April 26, 2025.
Governance

How a UN Resolution Failed to Protect Sudan's Health Care

by Michelle D. Gavin

Ten years after UNSC Resolution 2286 passed, a physician details how its shortcomings imperil Sudanese citizens and health workers

Poverty

Sudan's Health Workers Adapt to Increasing Drone Attacks

by Talha Arif
Women pray in front of a house struck by a drone in El-Obeid, North Kordofan State, Sudan, on January 12, 2026.
Poverty

Syrian Doctors Fight Infant Blindness After War

by Uzma Rentia
A nurse checks a premature baby at a maternity hospital, in Idlib, Syria, on February 27, 2020.
Food

How the Iran War Could Drive a Historic Hunger Crisis

by Sam Vigersky, Anya Hirschfeld
A woman from the indigenous Turkana Nilotic community pours sorghum grains into a sack, at a World Food Program food distribution center, at the Kenya Oil village near Lodwar, in Turkana County, Kenya, on February 17, 2026.
Poverty

How the Iran War Is Straining Humanitarian Aid, in Three Charts

by Allison Krugman
Map titled “Shipping Aid in Wartime” showing how food shipments to Port Sudan are rerouted because of the Iran War. A solid dark line marks the typical route from Nhava Sheva, India, across the Arabian Sea, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and Red Sea, to Port Sudan, with labels for Salalah, Jeddah, Suez Canal, and Port Sudan. A dashed orange line shows the alternate route looping south across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa’s southern tip, and back up West Africa and the Mediterranean before reaching the Red Sea. A note on the map says ships avoiding the Bab-el-Mandeb take this longer route. Caption states that rerouting can add 6,000 miles and more than three weeks of transit time.
Poverty

"We've Been in Famine for Months": Life in Post-Ceasefire Gaza

by Mariel Ferragamo
Project HOPE Gaza Human Resources Coordinator Nouralhuda Abu Gefra sits in the rubble of her partially damaged house in Gaza, on October 14, 2025.
Governance

Where the Iran War Could Disrupt Pharmaceutical Supply Chains

by Prashant Yadav, Anya Hirschfeld
Worldwide Flight Services personnel prepare humanitarian aid packages for the first French humanitarian flight to Beirut, carrying 60 tons of relief supplies and pharmaceutical products, at Paris‑Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Roissy‑en‑France near Paris, France, on March 12, 2026.
Governance

A Humanitarian Off-Ramp for the Iran War

by James Miller, Sultan Barakat
Members of the Red Crescent talk to each other as smoke rises into the air after a reported strike on Shahran fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 8, 2026.
Migration

Reversing Ukraine's Population Loss After Four Years of War

by Nataliia Bushkovska
Bohdana Zhupanyna, a 30-year-old mother-to-be, stands inside her apartment that was damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 23, 2025.
Governance

A Reckoning for Attacks on Health in Gaza 

by Leonard S. Rubenstein
Medical personnel work in an operating room at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on July 9, 2025.
Poverty

Two Years of the Gaza War in Three Health Charts

by Allison Krugman
Bar chart titled “Child Mortality Explodes in Palestinian Territories” shows child mortality rates (deaths per 1,000 children ages 5–14) from 2013 to 2023 for Israel, the regional average, and the Palestinian Territories. Rates for Israel (dark blue) and the regional average (gray) remain low and stable across the decade. The Palestinian Territories (orange) show spikes in 2014 and 2023. A note marks 2014 as the Gaza War leading to the greatest number of civilian deaths since 1967. A second note marks 2023 as the October 7 attack that triggered a large-scale invasion of Gaza. The Palestinian Territories’ mortality rate rises sharply to nearly 30 per 1,000 in 2023—almost nine times higher than in 2022. Source: UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation; chart by CFR/Allison Krugman for Think Global Health.