Charlotte Brown

Refugee protest and creative resistance - BIEA Join us  in-person or online for an afternoon exploring the themes of refugee agency, protest, and creativity, marking the launch of several recent publications on refugee-led advocacy and resistance....

Next Thursday, join us in person or online! Poet activist Peter Kidi will be joining and reading several of his poems from his debut chapbook, The Forgotten Faces biea.ac.uk/events/refug...

“The weight we carry” Poet Peter Kidi explores the human cost of aid cuts, and the resilience of refugees living between hunger and hope.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/poem/2025/11...

When aid doesn’t arrive on time, many refugees turn to debt to survive, effectively pledging future aid to buy food for today.

CSAE's @oliviersterck.bsky.social & @odid-qeh.bsky.social's Vittorio Bruni on the cost of ration cuts & delivery delays in Kenya's refugee camps.

Why it’s a bad idea to triage refugee food aid when everyone's hungry Blanket food assistance was stopped in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp in August. The impact has been immediate.

“Let everyone get the same, even if it's just a spoonful,” a refugee told us after hearing she would soon be cut off from food assistance.

Our research on aid cuts and targeting just published in The New Humanitarian.

www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

Cries in the dust - Africa at LSE I. A Cry for BreadWe marched with empty stomachs,our shadows thinner than our hope,our feet carving pleas into the dust,But the wind swallowed our voices whole.We asked for bread,but the air turned to...

blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/...

Delighted to share The Forgotten Faces, featuring deeply moving and incisive poetry from the brilliant Peter Kidi and the artistic talent of Victor Ndula. Available here: www.lse.ac.uk/africa/asset... @africaatlse.bsky.social

"Policies are drafted about us but never with us. Aid is designed like architecture above our heads, and when it collapses, we are the ones buried in the rubble.' For #FP2P we spoke to poet and refugee Peter Kidi about his life and his art. frompoverty.oxfam.org.uk/i-started-wr...

"The last meal" by Peter Kidi, who is a South Sudanese poet and activist, born and raised in Kakuma refugee camp.

A central theme of the poem, reflecting the focus of #WorldRefugeeDay2025, is solidarity, a concept that takes on different meanings.

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On World Refugee Day 2025, Peter Kidi has written a deeply personal poem offering a first-hand perspective on the realities of humanitarian aid cuts. Peter is an incredibly talented young poet writing from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. Here is his poem, The Last Meal: tinyurl.com/ymhswtpj

A really interesting and helpful article.

When aid to a refugee camp gets cut/is volatile:

1) Hunger gets worse, especially if disbursement of remaining aid is delayed;
2) The informal credit system collapses;
3) Food prices fall with reduced demand, partly mitigating the aid cut shock

Really important work and a great article. Costanza Torre and I found similar effects of humanitarian aid cuts on informal credit systems in northern Uganda. Curious to hear if you found the cuts had effects on intra-household consumption? doi.org/10.19088/SSH...

What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...

🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?

Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

If you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention.

🎥: Time, 💬 Greta Thunberg

Malnutrition in Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp after US aid cuts A UN official warns that hundreds of thousands in the sprawling camp are

"If we have a protracted situation where this is what we can manage, then basically we have a slowly starving population," says Felix Okech, the WFP's head of refugee operations in Kenya.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Several transit centres in Uganda are operating at >500% capacity despite ongoing conversations about repatriation. The scale of congestion and water stats are particularly concerning given that #UNHCR just deprioritised WASH and Health activities

As indicated by @wfp.org Uganda “Malnutrition has reached critical levels (15% +) in refugee reception centres, and general food rations have been cut by up to 80%"

The government is discussing forced repatriation. The aid infrastructure in Uganda has been at breaking point for a long time - this is the culmination of years of neglect

Trump’s aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda UN World Food Programme says $50m is urgently needed amid fears that Uganda may now begin forced repatriations

Uganda hosts 1.8 million refugees. New arrivals continue. Owing to aid cuts, WFP have cut another 1 million from ongoing monthly assistance (which wasn't much to start with). www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Solar panel push still won’t cover as much land as golf courses A study shows that Ed Miliband’s 2030 green energy targets are set to require up to 0.4 per cent of the UK, compared with 0.06 per cent today

There's been plenty of hyperventilating in some UK media outlets about solar farm taking over 'productive farm land' and endangering food security

But in fact the ambitious 2030 targets will cover only 0.4% of land, compared with golf courses covering 0.5%

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

What if we stopped aid altogether? The future of refugee aid work is that INGOs need to ditch their egos and self-interest, and work honestly and collaboratively with refugee leaders.

"If your humanitarian mission dies when the money dries up, it was never a mission, it was a business."

Opinion by Micheal Gumisiriza, a humanitarian practitioner working with refugee-led organisations in Uganda.

More than 200 civilians killed as Sudan’s RSF attacks Darfur displacement camps Relief International medics among dead as paramilitaries step up violence against region’s displaced people

“Paramilitaries in Sudan have murdered more than 200 civilians in a wave of attacks in displacement camps and around the city of El Fasher, the last big city still in the hands of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region.”

The global malnutrition crisis we can still solve | FairPlanet Defeating malnutrition starts with the collective realisation that this problem is everyone’s business, and it is getting worse.

Malnutrition is a crisis we can solve—if we act now. From stunting to obesity, poor #nutrition fuels inequality, instability & lost potential. But integrated solutions are working.
Read Afshan Khan's latest op-ed on 👇
🔗 www.fairplanet.org/op-ed/malnut...

This will be an especially difficult year to tell the difference between fake bullshit and actual bullshit this April Fool's Day

I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️

My new article ‘Mission Impossible?
Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Nearly 3M HIV deaths due to foreign aid cuts, study forecasts Researchers warn that decades of progress in HIV treatment and prevention could be undone.

Nearly 3M HIV deaths due to foreign aid cuts, study forecasts

Researchers warn that decades of progress in HIV treatment and prevention could be undone.

Claudia Chiappa for @politico.eu ✍️

www.politico.eu/article/near...

Humanitarian data drought: The deeper damage wrought by US aid cuts It’s one thing being forced to cut aid programmes, it’s quite another not knowing where help is most urgently needed in the first place.

From household health surveys on the ground to satellite images taken from space, the vast information networks that inform the humanitarian system are teetering on the brink of “collapse” as a result of the US government budget cuts. ⬇️

✨ Writing from the Nutrition for Growth summit #N4GParis. ✨

DYK that malnutrition costs the global economy US$3.5 trillion a year?

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆: We all benefit from a well-fed world.

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Looking for impact? Think about food. Charlotte Brown on today's Activism, Influence and Change blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/activism-inf...