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The Sudanese army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have inflicted “horrendous violence” on people across Sudan, according to a new report by the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). The report draws on medical and operational data, highling patterns of violence observed by...

MSF report flags ‘horrendous’ Sudan violence

At the start of the year, we published this analysis flagging how – even as the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominated headlines going into 2024 – it was important to remember the many other crises that were being too easily forgotten by the media and neglected by aid donors.

Why these 10 humanitarian crises still demand your attention

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Netanyahu visits DC, as Palestinians pushed out of 83% of Gaza. All eyes this week have been on events outside of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the US Congress on 24 July, giving a factually dubious speech that downplayed and misrepresented the staggering humanitarian crisis caused by Israel’s now nearly 10-month-long war. US Vice President Kamala Harris also gave her first comments about the war as the likely Democratic Party nominee in November presidential elections after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race. Harris vowed her “unwavering commitment” to Israel’s security while also calling on Netanyahu’s government to reach a ceasefire deal with Hamas. Ceasefire talks are ongoing, but Netanyahu has so far resisted global pressure to strike a deal to end the war. Instead, he has laid out a vision for indefinite, lower-intensity fighting against Hamas until Israel achieves “total victory” – something many experts say is not possible. On the ground in Gaza, Israel issued a fresh round of evacuation orders for parts of the southern city of Khan Younis – including parts of the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’ in al-Mawasi. More than 150,000 people have since fled those areas, according to the UN. The Israeli military has been heavily bombarding and redeploying ground troops in parts of Gaza it previously withdrew from, saying that it is pursuing Hamas militants that have regrouped. According to the UN, nearly 83% of Gaza’s territory is now under evacuation orders or has been designated as ‘no-go zones’ by the Israeli military. Around 90% of Gaza’s population of 2.1 million Palestinians has been forcibly displaced – many multiple times – and the recorded death toll is nearing 40,000, according to health authorities in the enclave.

Venezuela’s election, Sudan peace talks, and Netanyahu’s DC visit: The Cheat Sheet

The nexus isn’t a myth. The response to the refugee crisis in eastern Chad is a rare example of a joined-up approach to humanitarian and development challenges. Since war broke out in Sudan last April, more than 750,000 refugees and migrant returnees have fled to eastern Chad. They joined more than 400,000 people still displaced in Chad since the Darfur genocide of the 2000s.

Yes, the nexus is real. But it needs a radical overhaul

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

When the Israeli military issued evacuation orders on 13 October last year, telling 1.1 million Palestinians in the north of the Gaza Strip to head south, Mahmoud Shalabi decided he wasn’t going to leave. “I would rather die in my home than in a tent,” Shalabi told The New...

What is life like in northern Gaza?

Just a few kilometres from President Gustavo Petro’s palace in downtown Bogotá, hundreds of mostly Emberá Indigenous people live in a makeshift tent community in one of the Colombian capital’s most iconic parks. Fire smoke wafts from shelters fashioned from tarps and from signs that once...

When Colombia’s conflict-displaced come to the capital

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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?

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Ronkonkoma, NY

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The New York Post reveals that two men who died in a plane crash at MacArthur Airport were from Virginia. The men had been visiting friends in Long Island and were returning home when the tragedy occurred.

Life partners from Virginia have been identified as the victims of a New York plane crash

The US has blocked a British judge from holding a hearing on the British-held island of Diego Garcia to determine whether a group of asylum seekers is being unlawfully detained there. Around 60 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers have been confined to a fenced camp the size of a football...

US blocks Diego Garcia asylum seekers detention hearing

An operation to rescue 93 asylum seekers and migrants onboard a wooden fishing boat off the coast of Libya took a dangerous turn on 9 July. As workers from the search and rescue NGO SOS Méditerranée were evacuating people from the vessel, two dinghies carrying armed, masked men arrived on the scene. Two of the men boarded the fishing boat, prompting the remaining asylum seekers and migrants onboard to jump into the sea.

Armed men disrupt Mediterranean migration boat rescues

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A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

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Explore Beaufort SC

The mantis shrimp is one tough customer. Beautiful and deadly are two words you don’t typically use to describe shrimp, but the mantis shrimp is definitely in a class of its own; earning a reputation as the ‘savage boxer of the sea’ and one of the most fearsome creatures in the ocean. And, they're right at home here in South Carolina.

Savage Boxer of the Sea: The Deadly Beauty of Mantis Shrimp

The Lens

This year’s area of low oxygen in the Gulf of Mexico is larger than average, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced on Thursday. The “dead zone” is approximately 6,705 square miles , as measured last week. Within NOAA’s 38 years of measuring the dead zone, this year’s assessment marks the 12th-largest area of low to no oxygen, which can kill fish and marine life.

Gulf ‘dead zone’ larger than average, larger than expected for 2024, scientists announce

The world is woefully off track when it comes to eliminating hunger and malnutrition, with one in 11 people going hungry in 2023 – a level that has remained unchanged for three consecutive years – and more than one in four slashing the quantity and quality of the food they consume or skipping meals, data from a UN flagship report shows.

Climate, conflict, and debt keep hunger and malnutrition stubbornly high globally

The Current GA

Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force .

Expert: Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – picture is unsettling

Almost 3,000 children have been arrested and 1,000 convicted over mostly gang membership-related charges in El Salvador as part of President Nayib Bukele’s so-called “war on gangs”, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report includes testimonies of 90 people, among them 66 victims...

Salvadoran minors pay price of gang crackdown

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Jacksonville Today

Republican Donald Trump has a 7-point lead over Democrat Kamala Harris among Florida voters, 49% to 42%, according to a new poll from the University of North Florida. Four percent are backing another candidate, and 6% are undecided or didn’t answer.

New Florida poll: Trump leads; support strong for abortion and recreational weed

The Ford Foundation has denied accusations by Kenyan President William Ruto that it has been funding weeks of youth-led anti-tax protests that have now morphed into demands for him to cede power. It’s not the first time accusations of financing the protests have been lobbed at international organisations. At the...

Ford Foundation denies Ruto protest accusations

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In Sudan, host families take the strain of the world’s largest displacement crisis

With only two bedrooms, a hallway, and a single bathroom, 47-year-old Karar’s humble home in the town of Gedaref, in southeastern Sudan, can be crowded at...

In Sudan, host families take the strain of the world’s largest displacement crisis

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