Andrew Connelly, WOSU Public Media

Andrew Connelly

WOSU Public Media

United Kingdom

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  • 90.7 WMFE
  • WOSU Public Media
  • KRWG-TV/FM
  • NPR
  • Foreign Policy
  • The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN)
  • PRI
  • Al Jazeera English
  • POLITICO Europe
  • VICE
  • and more…

Past articles by Andrew:

A guide to 9 global buzzwords for 2023, from 'polycrisis' to 'zero-dose children'

Are you having a polycrisis? Can the world reduce the number of zero-dose children? Experts shared their views about global buzzwords that will be big this year. Here's the list and the definitions. → Read More

A guide to 9 global buzzwords for 2023, from 'polycrisis' to 'zero-dose children'

Are you having a polycrisis? Can the world reduce the number of zero-dose children? Experts shared their views about global buzzwords that will be big this year. Here's the list and the definitions. → Read More

MacKenzie Scott is shaking up philanthropy's traditions. Is that a good thing?

Donations often come with rigorous applications and reporting requirements. Billionaire MacKenzie Scott, who divorced Jeff Bezos in 2019 and vowed to give away most of her fortune, does it her way. → Read More

NPR

A $2.5 million prize gives this humanitarian group more power to halt human suffering

Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council, which has been awarded the Hilton Humanitarian Prize for helping millions in crisis, talks about unprecedented challenges and dreams of a better future. → Read More

NPR

The number of hungry people has doubled in 10 countries. A new report explains why

The charity Oxfam has issued a new report on hunger and climate change. In countries most severely affected, the number of people experiencing acute hunger has doubled in just 6 years. → Read More

Britain’s Rwanda Deportation Policy Is a Cruel, Expensive Failure

Boris Johnson’s offshoring of asylum-seekers won’t stop the human smuggling trade—or deter people fleeing tyranny who are intent on reaching Britain. → Read More

Don’t Blame Belarus. Blame Brussels.

The migrant crisis on the EU’s eastern border is the result of an incoherent and inhumane European migration policy ripe for exploitation by autocrats. → Read More

The humanitarian fallout of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

For tens of thousands of people displaced in Armenia and Azerbaijan, COVID-19 and the harsh winter months will only add to the pain. → Read More

Croatia Is Abusing Migrants While the EU Turns a Blind Eye

The evidence of Croatian police violence toward migrants is overwhelming, but Brussels continues to praise and fund Zagreb for patrolling the European Union’s longest external land border. → Read More

Kashmir’s decade-high death toll a ‘warning sign’

Residents fear a cycle of rights abuses, protests, and crackdowns will bring a new era of increased militancy. → Read More

Hungary condemned for using ‘starvation tactics’ to deter asylum seekers

UN alarmed over ‘alien policing procedures’ that systematically deny food to asylum seekers in holding areas on the Serbian border. → Read More

A “manufactured” Brexit migrant crisis masks new risks ahead

Over-reaction to a small rush of Iranian arrivals aside, Britain is in a mess over immigration and no one knows where things are heading. → Read More

PRI

Bosnia emerges as new underground migrant route while Europe’s borders tighten

Bosnia, a small mountainous country with a population of around 3.5 million, recorded only 775 migrant arrivals for the whole of 2017. The country's minister of security said that 7,128 migrants had been registered since the beginning of 2018. → Read More

PRI

Romania faces a rush of migrant boats as smugglers test new routes to Europe

It's become harder for migrants to reach Europe by crossing the Mediterranean. Now, people smugglers are exploring perilous new routes, like the Black Sea. → Read More

Should giant Charles Byrne be left to rest in peace?

Ethical questions linger 234 years after surgeon who inspired Dr Jekyll character stole Byrne's towering corpse. → Read More

PRI

Refugees suffer PTSD and attempt suicide in Greece

Mental health is the latest casualty of the refugee crisis. → Read More

PRI

Hungary's Trump-supporting leader will deploy 'border hunters' and refugee detention containers

EU member Hungary will detain asylum-seekers in shipping containers and will arm and deploy border vigilantes to prevent what the government calls an "invasion" of migrants. → Read More

Europe’s most hostile port of entry – POLITICO

Bulgaria puts out its own welcome mat for migrants. → Read More

From Chaos to Calm: 24 Hours With Migrants and Refugees in Macedonia

The situation on Macedonia’s southern border briefly resembled a low-level war zone as police tried to stop thousands of people from entering. → Read More

'Refugees Will Break the Wall': On the Frontlines of Hungary’s Immigration Fence

VICE News visited the latest fence around Fortress Europe — between Hungary and Serbia. Right-wing politicians argue that it is vital to keep out migrants, but it can also just be walked around. → Read More