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'Protection needs are driven by armed conflict and forced displacement, but they are exacerbated by the funding crisis'—read the latest SIPRI Fact Sheet on the humanitarian funding gap in Chad.

English: https://doi.org/10.55163/CFUG5367
Arabic: https://doi.org/10.55163/BXRS9810
French: https://doi.org/10.55163/WWIP5

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This new partner report from SIPRI and the Training for Peace Project at NUPI draws on the experiences of UNISFA, to examine existing responses to climate, peace and security challenges in Abyei and opportunities to strengthen them.

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‘The rapid increase in displacement has significantly increased humanitarian needs in 🇹🇩Chad, while humanitarian funding has failed to keep pace’—Today SIPRI publishes 2 fact sheets that explore key findings from research carried out by SIPRI and its partner BUCOFORE. These two fact sheets highlight key priorities for the humanitarian response in a context of protracted crisis.

Both fact sheets are available in English, Arabic and French.

The first fact sheet focuses on the implications of the funding gap in the humanitarian response amid a global funding crisis.
English: https://doi.org/10.55163/CFUG5367
Arabic: https://doi.org/10.55163/BXRS9810
French: https://doi.org/10.55163/WWIP5511

The second fact sheet identifies access to education, employment and land as three critical areas where refugee women and girls in eastern Chad need support.
English: https://doi.org/10.55163/USXL9693
Arabic: https://doi.org/10.55163/YOHQ7025
French: https://doi.org/10.55163/THTT3917

Global military expenditure increased to $2887 billion in 2025, the 11th year of consecutive rises, bringing the global military burden—military expenditure as a share of gross domestic product (GDP)—to 2.5%, its highest level since 2009.

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The ongoing insecurity in the Lake Chad region—which intersects Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria—cannot be understood in isolation from climate and environmental change.

This SIPRI and fact sheet focuses on the Lake Chad region.

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This timely backgrounder maps the military AI industry to help policymakers, as well as civil society and academic researchers, to understand the wide variety of products, actors and relationships involved.

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Quantum technologies are moving rapidly from the lab to real-world defence and security applications, reshaping how information is sensed, shared, and secured.

Learn more in this report ➡️ http://doi.org/10.55163/ZVTL1529

How does the increase in dual-use by design research blur the traditional distinction between publicly funded civilian and military research in Europe?

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How should the difficult trade-off between national security and the need to verify progress in nuclear disarmament be managed? Since SIPRI’s founding in 1966, one of the Institute’s main tasks has been to promote greater transparency in global nuclear armaments.

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