#chad-humanitarian-crisis

#chad-humanitarian-crisis

In late 2025, the United States shocked the world by suspending global health aid, leading experts to predict 700,000 additional deaths annually, primarily among children. This prompted the US to propose unusual bilateral health agreements with developing countries, which have drawn criticism for being exploitative.

At least 43 compatriots were killed and 44 houses torched during the previous day's attack in Bafwakoa, located in Mambasa territory, in the province of Ituri.

When I heard that fighting was approaching Uvira, we decided it would be best to leave for our own safety. It was to spare his family from the shadow of death following the violence and killings that had already taken place in Luvungi, Luberizi, Kamanyola and Sange—surrounding areas where M23 and the army were squaring off.

At least three aid workers have been killed and four others wounded in a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on an aid convoy in Sudan's South Kordofan state, according to the Sudan Doctors Network, in the latest carnage against civilians caught up in the nation's brutal civil war. The convoy of trucks carrying food and humanitarian supplies was targeted by the RSF, and its ally, the Sudan People's

"famine thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed"

The 39th African Union (AU) summit is set to be dominated by pressing security concerns across Africa, as the continent continues to face escalating conflicts. However, there are mounting questions on whether the pan-African body can actually deliver on peace and security strategies: A study conducted by the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in 2023 revealed that a staggering 90% of the decisions made by the AU's Peace and Security Council (PSC) have not been implemented since the inception of the PSC in 2004.

The Sudan Doctors Network calls the attack in North Kordofan a blatant violation of international humanitarian law'. Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a series of drone attacks targeting humanitarian aid convoys and fuel trucks across North Kordofan, killing at least one person and wounding several others, officials and medical organisations said. The North Kordofan state government condemned Friday's strikes on a convoy linked to the World Food Programme (WFP), urging the international community and United Nations bodies to impose sanctions