Category: Humanitarian
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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.
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Colombia’s forensic institute says three of the ten killed in an August air strike were minors, two of them fifteen. Human Rights Watch counts 1,500 children recruited by armed groups since 2021. Put the two findings together and the strategy has a problem.
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Seventy-three UN staff are being held by the Houthis, and a May agreement to release more than 1,600 conflict-related detainees has stalled. Coverage of Yemen follows the missiles, which is how the slower failures go unrecorded.
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More than 1,040 Palestinians injured in settler attacks since January, over 1,000 structures demolished, around 1,360 displaced. The figures are published continuously by the UN and quoted almost nowhere, because a running total never becomes news on any particular day.
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A UNICEF-led nutrition survey in Gaza found acute malnutrition low and stunting at 12.2 per cent, ten months after a ceasefire. Some read it as evidence the 2025 famine declaration was wrong. The survey itself says something narrower.
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Save the Children says 35 per cent of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh will face crisis or emergency hunger this year. The UN’s appeal for them is 26 per cent smaller than last year’s. Both things are described as prioritisation.
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Millions of Congolese children returned to class on Tuesday, in the middle of what authorities call the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record. The teachers’ union in Ituri asked for a postponement. In the epicentre itself, some classrooms were nearly empty.
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Haiti’s new national nutrition survey found acute malnutrition in young children has risen from 5.1 to 7.4 per cent since 2023 — while stunting fell sharply over the same period. Both findings are in the same document, and both are probably right.
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A militia ambushed an army convoy escorting thirty buses, two ambulances and three bank vehicles in East Wollega. Sixteen died, including a midwife and a patient. Fano activity in western Oromia is up 80 per cent this year.
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Settlers besieged three homes in Qusra on 9 August. Three weeks on, the Israeli army has installed metal gates at Ras al-Ain — pushing the settlers back 150 metres and replacing them with checkpoints.