"We regret the decision to cut the aid budget at a time when needs are escalating, but the aid which remains really needs to be better focused on fragile and conflict-affected states like those at the top of our Emergency Watchlist."

IRC UK Executive Director Flora Alexander speaks to @lbc.co.uk

"It should be sacrosanct that you aren't sent back to danger. The countries with the most people crossing the Channel are Sudan & Afghanistan. There's a well-founded fear of torture if you're sent back to those countries."

David Miliband discusses the UK asylum policy announcement on @news.sky.com:

"We should play our fair share in solving the world's problems because if we don't, those problems will come to us... that's actually the way that we build our own security and our own prosperity."

David Miliband in conversation with @andrewmarr.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk

"It's wrong to say that the choice is between compassion and order. It must be right that a smart [asylum] system treats people humanely, follows international and domestic law and ensures that there's order to the system."

David Miliband speaks to @andrewmarr.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk:

"Those who've made it out are a small minority and they're bringing tales of horror with them. After a siege of 18 months that left people starving, we've now got testimony of killing on a large scale."

David Miliband & @yaldahakim.bsky.social discuss the crisis in El Fasher, Sudan on @news.sky.com

At least 170 unaccompanied children have been registered in Tawila after fleeing violence in El Fasher, Sudan.

"It's terrifying that so many children have made the journey without their parents. It leaves us asking: have they been killed? Where are they?"

More from IRC's Bob Kitchen on BBC News ⬇️

"What's happening right now in El Fasher is hell on earth. It has been besieged for 6-9 months. People are starving, people are thirsty… We're hearing atrocious stories of people being detained, being killed.”

IRC Darfur Crisis Lead Arjan Hehenkamp on @lbc.co.uk with @andrewmarr.bsky.social

"No matter how fast the aid operation scales up, there are people we won't be able to reach, and that only makes it all the more urgent that the uncertainty about the details of the plan are resolved quickly."

Watch IRC's Ciaran Donnelly discuss the opening up of aid access into Gaza on @cnn.com ⬇️

"We're really pleased to see that this agreement did include this this scale up of aid and this surge in humanitarian assistance going into Gaza alongside the hostage release. What we haven't seen yet on the ground is the scale that's needed."

The IRC's Kelly Razzouk on BBC News ⬇️

"It's important to underscore this is just a first step in the humanitarian surge that's needed. What we have to see over the coming days and weeks is a steady and sustained increase in the level of humanitarian aid being provided."

IRC's Ciaran Donnelly on the ceasefire in Gaza via @msnbc.com ⬇️

"One of my colleagues told me that the air is full of not just drones and fighting and bombardment but the sound of children crying because they are hungry... There's worse to come unless the borders are opened and aid allowed in."

IRC Vice President for Emergencies Bob Kitchen on BBC News:

"Cuts in global aid budgets are a clear and present danger to the services that are being delivered, which themselves are only a fraction of what's needed."

IRC President and CEO David Miliband speaks to BBC News about the urgent need for more international support for civilians in Sudan.