On Friday, March 17th, The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported that there are around ten million children in central Sahel that are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. This is due to the escalating conflict in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso. This violence has now started to spread into
Reports indicate that Médecins Sans Frontiers (M.S.F.), also known as Doctors Without Borders, has been forced to close its hospital in Cite Soleil due to the grave risks posed to staff and patients. Following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021, Haiti has seen a sharp rise in gang
On Sunday March 5th, two Azerbaijani soldiers and three Armenians exchanged gunfire in Azerbaijan’s Nagorno-Karabakh that resulted in the death of at least five people. Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in a border conflict since May of 2021, and this fighting for control of Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave of Karabakh has
This past week, incoming World Health Organization (WHO) chief scientist Jeremy Farrar stated that governments should start investing in vaccines for all animal strains of the influenza virus that exist. Farrar expressed that countries all over the world have lost poultry due to outbreaks of avian flu, and that this
On Monday, Taiwan’s opposition party, the Kuomintang (KMT), stated that their deputy chairman, Andrew Hsia, will be visiting China this week despite the ongoing tensions between the two states. Hsia will be meeting with the newly appointed leader of China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, Song Tao, to discuss cross-strait issues and
The World Economic Forum’s final panel held its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland this past month. The purpose of the annual meeting is to re-affirm the value of dialogue and public-private co-operation, not only to navigate the current crises but to drive long-term system-positive change. This year, the panel concluded
On January 16th the UN envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, cited a major step in Yemen truce deal efforts, but warned against a “piecemeal approach.” This approach would entail a focus on individual needs instead of a broader, sustainable agreement between the Saudi Arabia military coalition and Iran-aligned Houthi. This
On November 1st, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan formally asked the court to continue the investigation into the alleged human rights violations committed in Venezuela. This is in response to a deferral request made by Venezuela to delay the ICC’s investigation into their officials. It is
