WHO warns of health crisis ‘unfolding in real time’ across Middle East

Meanwhile, she said the crises in Gaza, Sudan and Yemen were being neglected as the world's attention turned to the US-Iran conflict. "It is very distressing because, behind that neglect, there's a lot of hardship and death and sickness and illness and displacement that is going unrecognised."…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/26/who-warns-of-health-crisis-unfolding-in-real-time-across-middle-east

 

Trump Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid Still in Place, Despite Administration Claims — ProPublica

"A chaotic, unexplained and abrupt pause with no guidance has left all our partners around the world high and dry and America looking like a severely unreliable actor to do business with," a USAID official told ProPublica, adding that other countries will now have good reason to look to China or Russia for the help they're no longer getting from the U.S. 

"There's nothing that was left untouched."… The dire international situation has been exacerbated by upheaval in Washington. This week, the Trump administration furloughed 500 support staff contractors from USAID's humanitarian assistance bureau, about 40% of the unit, and fired 400 more from the global health bureau. Those workers were told to stop working and "please head home." 

The remaining officials in Washington are now attempting to navigate a confounding waiver process and get lifesaving programs back online. Officials and diplomats told ProPublica that Trump's new political appointees have not consulted USAID's longtime humanitarian experts when crafting the new policies. As a result, career civil servants said they are struggling to understand the policy or how to carry it out… 

"Like a Russian nesting doll of fuck-ups," said Jeremy Konyndyk, who ran some of USAID's largest programs under Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. "It's just astonishing."

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan

While the focus is on Ukraine, Russia’s presence in the Sahel is steadily growing

Russian trade and investment in Africa is small but increasing. A deal to establish a naval base in Sudan has boosted Moscow's military foothold in the continent.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/feb/03/while-the-focus-is-on-ukraine-russias-presence-in-the-sahel-is-steadily-growing

Rudy Giuliani's disinformation expo (Pod Save the World podcast)

Tommy and Ben break down what we know about the connection between foreign disinformation and the latest allegations about Hunter Biden, Russia’s proposal to extend the New START treaty, Sudan getting taken off the state sponsored terrorism list, and a win for Evo Morales’ party in Bolivia. They also talk about the future of escalation between China and Taiwan, attacks on American diplomats, the White House sending officials to negotiate with the Assad regime in Syria, and a blowout electoral win for Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand. Then Belarusian journalist Hanna Liubakova joins Ben to talk about what she has seen when reporting on the anti-Lukashenko protests in Belarus and why people have been so willing to stay in the streets.

Interview: 

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/rudy-giulianis-disinformation-expo

Facts undercut the rationale for Trump's latest travel ban | TheHill

On Jan. 31, the Trump administration expanded its country-specific travel ban by barring immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. When President Trump issued his first travel ban three years ago — commonly called the “Muslim ban” because six of the targeted countries are predominantly Muslim — many Americans took to the streets. The Trump administration revised the ban several times as it worked its way through legal challenges in federal court. On June 26, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the third iteration of the original travel ban.....
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/482081-facts-undercut-the-rationale-for-trumps-latest-travel-ban

Trump scapegoats almost a quarter of Africa’s population - The Washington Post

The latest set of countries targeted by travel bans include Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/05/trump-scapegoats-almost-quarter-africas-population/

Iran’s enriched uranium levels, and the media’s coverage of the DMZ summit | Pod Save the World reco

Ben and Tommy discuss Iran’s enriched uranium levels, the media’s coverage of the DMZ summit, and the protests in Sudan and Hong Kong.
Interview:

https://youtu.be/6k_kDCYeWBY

On the Front Line of the Saudi War in Yemen: Child Soldiers From Darfur - The New York Times

The civil war in Darfur robbed Hager Shomo Ahmed of almost any hope. Raiders had stolen his family’s cattle, and a dozen years of bloodshed had left his parents destitute. Then, around the end of 2016, Saudi Arabia offered a lifeline: The kingdom would pay as much as $10,000 if Hager joined its forces fighting 1,200 miles away in Yemen.....
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/28/world/africa/saudi-sudan-yemen-child-fighters.html

Meet the Former Republican Governor Fighting the Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945 -- TIME

Four simultaneous famines ...
http://time.com/4866580/famine-world-food-programme-humanitarian-crisis/

20 million starving to death: inside the worst famine since World War II

A report from South Sudan. ...
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/6/1/15653970/south-sudan-hunger-crisis-famine

If Trump does nothing, 50% of South Sudan's population could soon be gone

The consequences of South Sudan’s conflict are significant for US interests. Peace could be an early win for the Trump administration...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/donald-trump-50-percent-south-sudan-population?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=227190&subid=22113254&CMP=GT_US_collection

Eight people flee U.S. border patrol to seek asylum in Canada (Reuters)

Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters photographer captured the scene.

As a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officer seized their passports and questioned a man in the front passenger seat of a taxi that had pulled up to the border in Champlain, New York, four adults and four young children fled the cab and ran to Royal Canadian Mounted Police on the other side...
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-refugees-idUSKBN15W2GN?utm_source=applenews

As Exxon CEO, Rex Tillerson evaded sanctions to do business with Iran, Syria, and Sudan

Trump secretary of state pick Rex Tillerson isn't fond of U.S. sanctions against Russia, going so far as to attend a top Russian business forum last June even as the State Department chastised him for doing so. He's not a fan of sanctions against any other nation either, not even those that support terrorism. And in his position as head of Exxon, it turns out, the company made good on Tillerson's beliefs....
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/1618684