More conflicts than at any point since 1945. Yet in 2023 global military spending was $2.4 trillion, humanitarian aid $21 billion, and NGO peace mediation budgets just 0.01% of military spending.
(and those were the figures before the latest cuts to aid funding)
The debate about aid efficiency is real. But it's downstream of a much bigger failure.
🎧 @swissinfo_en Inside Geneva podcast:
On our Inside Geneva podcast this week, we host a debate on a key question: what’s the point of foreign aid?
Listen to the full episode, wherever you get your podcasts. 👇
🎧Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/w4AZggJ
🎧Spotify: buff.ly/XRgich9
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Key point. #Sudan too.
Indeed, development investments/reconstruction funds/peace agreement financial guarantees are now all at risk.
Funding for wars though, especially if they align with conflict logics in the Gulf/Red Sea, look less likely to be impacted.
#KeepEyesOnSudan
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Sınır Tanımayan Doktorlar (MSF) Genel Sekreteri Christopher Lockyear @Chris_lockyear, Gazze'deki son durumu Anadolu Ajansı'na değerlendirdirdi.
MSF Secretary General Christopher Lockyear @Chris_lockyear spoke to Anadolu Agency about the latest situation in Gaza.
Sınır Tanımayan Doktorlar, 2026 yılının başından bu yana Gazze’ye hiçbir tıbbi malzeme ve uluslararası personel ulaştıramadıklarını açıkladı
Sınır Tanımayan Doktorlar Genel Sekreteri Christopher Lockyear, AA'ya açıklamalarda bulundu ⤵️
— İnsani ihtiyaçlar çok büyük ve insani yardım müdahalesinin küçülmesi değil, önemli ölçüde büyümesi gerekiyor
— Kış şartları ve vahim barınma koşulları, Gazze Şeridi genelindeki felaket sağlık durumu daha da kötüleştiriyor
— 2026 yılının başından bu yana hiçbir tıbbi malzeme veya uluslararası personel getiremedik
v.aa.com.tr/3831172
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In Greece, we meet people who have survived journeys that no one should be forced to take.
When people who have fled extreme violence and persecution reach Europe they expect safety. Instead, they are “treated as suspects”. @Chris_lockyear, describes the situation from Lesbos 👇
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Are we seeing a bonfire of international law?” - the question at the heart our discussion in this Inside Geneva special.
Aid bans, shifting US priorities, and real-world consequences in #Gaza, #Sudan, Ukraine & beyond.
With @ImogenFoulkes , Nick Cumming-Bruce, @doburkhalter
🎧 podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcas…
2026 has begun with some momentous events: #Israel’s ban on dozens of international aid agencies, #Washington’s $2 billion pledge for #UN projects and a political shockwave in #Venezuela. What does it all mean? Listen to Inside Geneva to find out: buff.ly/DQvmf61
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"This is about the manipulation and the instrumentalization of humanitarian assistance." As Israel orders @MSF to stop operating in Gaza, its head @Chris_lockyear tells me they're seeing "a propaganda campaign against humanitarian organizations... putting our staff and our activities in acute danger."
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"It’s natural to feel uncertain and helpless. But it’s important to remind ourselves that just because of what is going on in the world, it doesn’t mean that solidarity and compassion and care have diminished."
Interview on the work of @MSF thanks to the @BigIssue.
The world may be giving up on solving conflicts, warns Doctors Without Borders boss bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
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In Ukraine, @Chris_lockyear recently saw first-hand the impact the ongoing war is having on both people's mental health and on medical facilities. He explains more 👇🎥
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In Ukraine, many people, often elderly, people live on the frontline, forced to choose between daily terror or fleeing into the unknown.
The psychological toll will take generations to overcome.
I spoke with @CNN about the work of Ukrainian organisations and @MSF, as winter deepens and humanitarian needs grow:
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/t…
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"So many were killed–yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors"
"a simple, human gesture in the midst of unimaginable horror"
“There are many of us that long to build bridges”
Harrowing and graceful by @Lifschitz_sha in the @guardian
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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“If Member States continue to treat these legal obligations as optional, they are not only complicit but are setting a dangerous precedent for the future. History will undoubtedly judge this moment.”
Aid agencies working in Gaza call on world leaders to urgently intervene after a UN commission concluded that genocide is being committed.
msf.org/gaza-aid-groups-call…
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.@MSF slams Israel’s ‘systematic destruction of a people’ in Gaza aje.io/bdkjml?update=3952198 via @AJEnglish
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Mariam, along with four other Palestinian journalists, was killed in Nasser hospital yesterday.
Devastating.
Mariam frequently worked with @MSF
Here is some of her exceptional and harrowing work, curated by @AP : lnkd.in/dGdh-hmD
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“The situation in terms in aid in Gaza is catastrophic. What we see is an orchestrated disaster,” says @MSF secretary-general @Chris_lockyear. “It really is a complete and utter catastrophe.”
A must-watch interview with @paulanewtonCNN, worth watching in full.
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Doctors Without Borders’ Christopher Lockyear warns that moving operations to field hospitals risks masking the collapse of Gaza’s medical infrastructure.
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Gaza’s only remaining lifeline—humanitarian assistance—is being weaponized.
Supplies are throttled.
If not blocked outright, they are rerouted to advance military and political objectives.
Via @AJEnglish on the experience of @MSF teams. aje.io/ldjarl
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.@Chris_lockyear and @DrChristou to EU leaders: "The scale of suffering in Gaza demands more than your empty rhetoric."
They are urging EU leaders to use political, economic, and diplomatic leverage to pressure Israel into stopping the war in Gaza.
msf.org/open-letter-european…
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