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Gadarif state was once a quiet agricultural region. Now, it is a reluctant refuge for thousands of families fleeing Sudan’s spiralling conflict. Among them is mother-of-5 Rayan, whose life has been reduced to a daily struggle for the most basic necessities: food, shelter and safety. Her story is a snapshot of the global refugee crisis, [...]

On World Environment Day, Jamie Williams, Islamic Relief’s Senior Policy Advisor on Poverty Reduction, discusses the dangers of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans and the need for large companies to be held accountable for the plastic waste they produce. This World Environment Day, Islamic Relief is signing Faith in the Ocean, an international multifaith [...]

In Laba-Adle village, Somalia, Mulki’s days used to revolve around collecting water. Each morning, the 30-year-old would set out before dawn, her feet kicking up dust as she walked 8 kilometres to the nearest water source. When she returned, it would be with just enough water to last her 5 children another day. But when [...]

In the fading light of yet another flooded evening, Rupali faced an impossible but all-too-familiar choice: risk disease by using the collapsed latrine behind her home, or wait for the cover of darkness to find privacy in the open fields. For 26 years, this was the daily reality for villagers in Bhabadaha – a low-lying area [...]

The first time I met the young Sudanese woman she was kneeling in the dust outside her makeshift shelter in an IDP camp, her three-year-old daughter limp in her arms. The child’s breathing was shallow, her tiny ribcage pressing against skin stretched taut like parchment. Around them, the camp vibrated with the quiet despair of [...]

When Sarah* fled her home in Omdurman amid the violent eruption of conflict, survival was the only goal. With just a handful of belongings and her frightened family in tow, she embarked on a harrowing escape. "We crossed the Khartoum-Omdurman bridge on foot," Sarah recounts. "The elderly were carried on wheelbarrows. Corpses lay swollen on [...]