The New Humanitarian

British authorities on the remote island of Diego Garcia have repeatedly disregarded a court order allowing 60 Sri Lankans to leave the fenced camp where they’ve spent nearly three years, several of the asylum seekers and their lawyers told The New Humanitarian. The allegations emerge as a British judge,...

Tamils allege prison-like conditions on Diego Garcia ahead of unlawful detention hearing

Hi, this is Will covering for Irwin for another edition of Inklings, where we explore all things aid and aid-adjacent unfolding in humanitarian hubs, on the front lines of emergency response, or in the dark corners of online aid punditry. It’s also available as an email newsletter. Subscribe here.

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Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Egypt have been arbitrarily arrested and collectively expelled back to their war-torn country in violation of international law, a new report by Amnesty International has found. The Amnesty report supports the conclusions of an earlier investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in...

Egypt forcibly deporting Sudanese refugees: Amnesty

At the end of this year, the last UN peacekeepers are scheduled to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo after two difficult decades, a withdrawal that reflects broader changes underway to the international security system. The peacekeeping mission – known by its French acronym, MONUSCO – has been the...

The changing face of peacekeeping: What’s gone wrong with the UN?

After three years, multiple crises, and an increasingly fractured global landscape, the United Nations’s relief chief, Martin Griffiths, is stepping down for health reasons. The under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator (ERC) is set to leave the job with widespread praise for his role as a skilled mediator and diplomat who did his best to alleviate human suffering amid heinous violence.

As the UN’s ‘fixer-in-chief’ steps down, a look at Martin Griffiths’ record

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

At least 89 people have died and as many as 72 are still missing following the latest deadly shipwreck on the Atlantic Ocean migration route between the west coast of Africa and the Spanish Canary Islands. The boat – a traditional fishing vessel – set sail from near the Senegal-Gambia...

160 dead or missing in Atlantic migrant crossing

Chicago, IL

Foodie in Chicago

Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Denver, CO

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David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

At least 18 people were killed in coordinated suicide bombings on a wedding, hospital, and a funeral in Nigeria’s northeastern town of Gwoza at the weekend. The attacks, carried out by female bombers, are believed to have been ordered by the jihadist group Boko Haram. In the first explosion,...

18 killed in suicide attacks in northeastern Nigeria

Savannah, GA

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Newly returned indictments in the Southern District of Georgia include felony charges for illegal firearms possession and drug distribution, while additional defendants have been sentenced to federal prison or await further proceedings after pleading guilty to federal gun charges.

Federal Charges in Southern GA: Indictments and Sentences for Firearms and Drug Offenses

Missouri State

Fulton, MO

CJ Coombs

Updated on July 17, 2024, concerning two of the missing children listed below. Bringing them home: for 40 years, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) has been helping to locate missing children.

Seven teenagers have been missing in Missouri since June 2024

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has become nationally known for moving more than 1,600 homeless people indoors since he has become mayor. Now he wants to place 200 people struggling with mental illness and/or addiction into treatment, according to an upcoming City Council committee agenda.

Denver mayor to send 200 people experiencing homeless to treatment

Georgia State

Dublin, GA

Officials from the U.S. Department of Justice have announced that a 42-year-old man from Dublin, Georgia, has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to distributing fentanyl.

Georgia Man Sentenced to Nearly 20 Years for Fentanyl Distribution

Raleigh, NC

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A popular chocolate factory in Raleigh, Videri Chocolate Factory, has been named among the top 10 chocolate shops in the country. Videri ranked No. 6 in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards for the second consecutive year, moving up from ninth place in 2023.

North Carolina chocolate company named one of the best chocolate shops across the US

Communal kitchens are assisting hundreds of thousands of people in Sudan’s embattled capital, Khartoum, providing regular meals as well as social and emotional support amid a deepening famine that international aid groups are failing to tackle. Run by neighbourhood-based mutual aid groups called emergency response rooms, the kitchens are...

‘We survive together’: The communal kitchens fighting famine in Khartoum

An attack by suspected jihadists on the village of Djiguibombo in central Mali has resulted in dozens of civilian deaths, according to local government officials in the region. Officials told Reuters that around 40 people were killed in the raid, though other accounts suggest the death toll was half that...

Suspected jihadists kill dozens in restive Mali region

Pennsylvania State

Bucks County Beacon

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

During a recent TV special, a deputy minister of Afghanistan’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice referred to the closure of high schools and colleges for female students as a “minor issue” that the “Americans and Europeans have concentrated on” at the expense of a much more pressing one: the recognition of the Islamic Emirate as the official government of the country.

Education for girls is not a ‘minor issue’ for Afghans, nor for the world

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Gaza talk hopes, Ruto’s struggles, and emergency education cuts: The Cheat Sheet

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Efforts to secure a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are reportedly showing...

Gaza talk hopes, Ruto’s struggles, and emergency education cuts: The Cheat Sheet

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