TEL AVIV, Israel -- Hamas hastened Tuesday to ease the pressure on a fragile ceasefire in its war with Israel by returning the bodies of more dead hostages after an Israeli military agency said it would slash aid deliveries to Gaza by half over concerns that the militant group was handing remains slower than agreed. The International Committee of the Red Cross said late Tuesday that it handed over to Israeli authorities four deceased hostages "in line with the ceasefire agreement."
A Palestinian sits near the site of Israeli air strikes on houses, at al-Shati refugee camp Photograph: Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters Somali students at the Dadaab refugee camp. Humanitarian agencies are warning of the severe impact of global aid reductions on vulnerable populations Photograph: Thomas Mukoya/Reuters A mural honouring US conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, after he was shot dead while speaking at Utah Valley university on 10 September 2025 Photograph: Abir Sultan/EPA
Millions of children across four African countries could die of malnutrition in the next three months, Save the Children has warned, as emergency food supplies dwindle as a result of international aid cuts. Save the Children said on Thursday that Nigeria, Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan were expected to run out of so-called ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF), a nutritional paste that has a long shelf life and does not need refrigeration.
In northern Uganda, the unfolding consequences of US funding cuts to international humanitarian aid are palpable. Thousands of families have been living in refugee camps along the border with South Sudan for almost a decade, and newcomers are reported every day as the never-ending conflict within the country intensifies. Uganda has long been a crossroads of migration, shaped by historical and contemporary population movements. Today, it hosts over 1.9 million refugees and asylum seekers one of the largest refugee populations in the world.
