Category: Humanitarian
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The Gang Suppression Force authorised for Haiti last September expires on 30 September, and the United States and Panama are expected to ask the Security Council to renew it. Around 1.5 million Haitians are displaced, and the conduct of the operations themselves has become part of the argument.
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More than 6,300 confirmed cases and over 3,000 deaths in DR Congo since May. It is the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, and the strain circulating is the one the vaccines were not built for.
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A doctors’ network has counted 158 deaths in South Kordofan. No ceasefire framework being discussed for Sudan acknowledges that this front exists — because the fighting there started twelve years before the current war did.
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Rescuers pulled two people alive from the debris in Nepal today, one of them from a tunnel at a hydropower project buried nine days ago. Why a tunnel is survivable when a collapsed building is not.
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Sixty people were killed in a single day of fighting in south-west Yemen, including six civilians on a bus in Taiz. The offensive is moving toward Bab al-Mandab, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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The World Meteorological Organization says there is a nearly 100 per cent chance El Niño lasts through February 2027 — the most unequivocal wording it has ever used. What that certainty covers, and what it does not, are two different things.
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A third consecutive weekly deportation flight landed at Cap-Haïtien on Thursday. It lands there because Port-au-Prince is considered too dangerous for the aircraft. The same judgement does not appear to apply to the people on board.
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Ten days after the glacier collapse, the toll along the Nepal–China border has passed 1,300 and more than 5,500 people are recorded missing. The second figure has grown faster than the first, and it should not be read as a second death toll.
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Cameroon’s school year starts Monday. The UN counted more than 88 attacks on education in the Anglophone regions in the first half of 2026, and Crisis Group warns August violence could disrupt the reopening. It will be the tenth school year the conflict has taken.
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A vigilante group raided a camp of hundreds of refugees outside Durban’s Home Affairs offices. They were sleeping there because that is what the asylum renewal queue requires — which is the part of the story that explains the rest.