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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

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Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik

The Guardian

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🚨New First View Article🚨 "The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo" by Myfanwy James is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ buff.ly/3e2NESv

Our contextual briefing on the Ebola outbreak in Ituri DRC is available in French and English here hal.science/hal-05632368

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It is with great sadness that the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa must announce the passing of our inaugural director, Professor Tim Allen. You can read more about Tim’s life and legacy, and leave a message of condolence, on our website www.lse.ac.uk/africa/about...

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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 240 of The Continent The latest Ebola outbreak is the 17th in 50 years, with more than half occurring in the past 5 years. Mining-driven mobility and mistrust are fuelling the spread. Ironically, better containment has limited vaccine trials. bit.ly/240_TC

My new article examines the formation of a local humanitarian class in Goma, and the transformations and tensions that followed. Open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @lseid.bsky.social

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In memoriam

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Myfanwy James

The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo

The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core

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Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

Review of International Studies

The New Humanitarian has partnered with five slam poets from eastern DRC, commissioning original works that confront the reality of war and the resilience of Congolese communities facing a brutal insurgency by the M23 rebel group.

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Humanitarian agencies have been urged to ‘localise’, shifting power to local actors and addressing North/South imbalances. But what does local really mean? Dr Myfanwy James explores this question for the LSE ID Blog blogs.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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The Continent

How do politics and past interventions shape responses to Ebola? Dr Myfanwy James (@myfanwyvjames.bsky.social) shares insights in The Continent and co-authors a new briefing for those working on the ground 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/internationa...

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These powerful new poems examine the escalating crisis in the east.

Hope and resistance: Slam poets capture the weight of war in DR Congo

There have been growing calls over the last decade for humanitarian agencies to ‘localise’— to address unjust and unequal power relations in the contemporary system by transferring power to local pers...

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The politics of local humanitarian recruitment in DRC - LSE International Development

Dr Myfanwy James has been interviewed and quoted in a recent edition of The Continent, an African newspaper, on the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Dr Myfanwy James featured in The Continent on Ebola outbreak

For those interested or involved: together with a collective of social science researchers led by Jules Villa, I contributed to a contextual note on the Ebola outbreak in Ituri #DRC #Ebola : hal.science/hal-05632368

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LSE Department of International Development

The New Humanitarian

#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - The humanitarian class: Transformation and tension in eastern Congo - https://cup.org/4uJyQQk - @myfanwyvjames.bsky.social #FirstView

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR