Two months after conflict forced humanitarian workers to withdraw from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), on Tuesday, stressed the need for “swift action” to restore safe access to “save thousands of lives at risk”.

President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to be defense secretary, told the Senate Armed Services Committee today that Defense Department resources and strategy must match.

President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to be secretary of state, Antony Blinken, said Tuesday he would quickly revisit the outgoing administration’s designation of Yemen’s Huthi rebels as terrorists, fearing it could make the humanitarian crisis there far worse. “We would propose to review that immediately to make sure that what we’re …