Great to be at @parispeaceforum.bsky.social with Alert's DRC minerals for peace project - it won the Forum's scale-up prize last year and we're back to talk about the impact!

The arms industry deserves scrutiny at a time when defence and military spending threatens health

Read this editorial introducing our new series on the arms trade and health

www.bmj.com/content/390/bmj.r1794

Trump’s foreign aid cuts could be ‘big strategic mistake’, says Lammy Exclusive: Move allows China to further global influence, UK foreign secretary says on Ukraine visit

News that the UK will cut aid budgets further to 0.3% of GNI apparently to pay for defence spending is both heartbreaking at a time of rising humanitarian need and 'a big strategic mistake' (as David Lammy called the USAID cuts just a few weeks ago). www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Alert's statement today on #DRC
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Switching over here - let me know good #peacebuilding #conflict #development accounts to follow?