World Status Report

This report intends to give the UTD Community a snapshot of international risks, and other issues as reported by the linked media and official sources from the U.S. and other countries.

More health and security information for each country can be found in the travel advisories issued by the governments of the United States, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and the CDC, ECDC, and WHO sites. Not all advise in these sites will apply to US travelers.

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information.  The information in this report may change without prior notice.

Security

• Police arrested twenty-eight people in Ecuador (The Guardian) after a string of car bombings and killings of police officers prompted President Guillermo Lasso to declare a national emergency earlier this week. 
• UN Forces Evacuate Journalists As Rebels Advance Further In DR Congo (HumAngle). The United Nations announced that it is evacuating journalists from towns that are at risk of being overtaken by the fighting in Eastern Congo.

Demonstrations

• Hadis Najafi: Iran police clash with mourners of female protester (BBC). Clashes have erupted between Iranian security forces and a crowd marking the 40th day of mourning for a young woman shot dead while protesting near Tehran.

Natural Disasters

• The number of casualties continues to increase in the Philippines due to widespread floods and landslides caused by heavy rainfall associated with the passage of Tropical Cyclone NALGAE (ERCC). The Philippines National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reports 122 fatalities, with 36 people missing. The number of displaced people slightly decreased to 850,000 people, while 3.3 million individuals remain affected.
• Heavy rainfall has been affecting Sumatra Island in western Indonesia over the past few days (ERCC), causing floods and leading to casualties and damage.
• Floods and river overflow caused by heavy rainfall continue to affect eastern Australia (ERCC). According to media reports, two people went missing near Boorowa Locality (central-southern Australia), while more than 1,000 people across the Forbes Shire (central west region of New South Wales) are currently subject to evacuation warnings.
• Flooding caused by heavy rainfall was reported in three States of the Malaysian northern Borneo (ERCC). According to the ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet), more than 1,000 people have been displaced to 15 evacuation centres.

Migration

• More than forty-five thousand Tunisians have attempted or succeeded in (Bloomberg) crossing the Mediterranean Sea this year, a Tunisian advocacy group said, nearly nine thousand more than during the 2011 uprisings often referred to as the Arab Spring. Tunisia’s simmering political and economic crisis has fueled an exodus of youth fleeing to Europe.
• HRW: Nigerians struggling after government closes camps, cuts aid (Al Jazeera English). More than 200,000 Nigerians displaced by long-running violence are struggling for food and shelter after authorities in the northeast shut some of the camps they were living in and stopped aid, international watchdog Human Rights Watch says.

Economy

• Geopolitical tensions have raised the prospect that strategic competition and national security concerns may trump the shared economic benefits of global trade (IMF). Interdependencies between economies mean that such a prospect would be very costly, especially for Asia. For example, about half of the imports in the United States and a third in Europe come from Asia. And, in turn, Asian countries account for almost half of global demand for key commodities.

Health

• Millions At Risk Of Hunger In South Sudan: UN (Barrons). Almost eight million people in South Sudan, or two thirds of the population in the deeply-troubled country, are at risk of hunger, the United Nations warned in a report on Thursday.

Ebola

• Uganda reports more Ebola cases and deaths (CIDRAP). Two new infections and 9 new deaths raise the outbreak total to 130 cases, 43 of them fatal, for a 33% case-fatality rate.

Please note the publication date of this report and go to the direct sources linked for the most up-to-date information.  The information in this report may change without prior notice.

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