As aid agencies face funding cutbacks, is now the best time to rethink aid? Inside Geneva interviews four experts.
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May 26, 2026 - 17:00
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Imogen Foulkes reports from Geneva for SWI swissinfo.ch as well as the BBC.
Anyone who has spent any time in Geneva recently knows that the humanitarian agencies, big and small, are struggling with major financial cutbacks, even as the crises they are supposed to alleviate – Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Somalia – get worse and more numerous.
On Inside Geneva, we take stock of aid cuts and what they mean for new crises such as Ebola.
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