Somali refugees walk next to a makeshift shelter in the Dadaab refugee camp, one of Africa's largest refugee camps in Kenya, on 23 March 2023. Swiss NGO Terre des Hommes had to close almost all of its activities in the camp after cuts to US funding. (Keystone/AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

💵Swiss NGOs estimate CHF 100m shortfall from foreign donors. Humanitarian and development actors are still struggling to understand the extent of the cuts by the United States and other international donors, and estimate the number of lives affected. A survey by a Swiss NGO platform sheds some light on these figures.

✈️UN Geneva told to weigh job moves amid deepening funding crisis. The United Nations Office at Geneva has been instructed to consider relocating jobs to lower-cost countries as part of a major cost-cutting drive from UN headquarters in New York. The revelation comes as UN staff unions, dismayed by a flurry of layoff announcements, prepare to demonstrate on 1 May.

🇧🇮Funding crisis threatens refugee work in Burundi, hitting women, Children, says UN. Over 71,000 people fleeing the violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have arrived in the country this year.

🚷US backs Israel's ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at World Court. Israel had passed a law last year barring the Palestinian aid agency from operating within its territory and hindering its work in those it occupies.