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

• UN Security Council adopts resolution calling for urgent humanitarian pauses and corridors in Gaza (AP) to address the escalating crisis for Palestinian civilians during Israel’s aerial and ground attacks, and “calls” for humanitarian pauses, and for “the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages held by Hamas and other groups.”
• Israel ordered civilians to leave four towns in the southern part of the Gaza Strip (Reuters), raising fears its war against Hamas could spread to areas it had told people were safe. In the north of the enclave, Israel said its forces were still present at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Al Shifa.
• Kenya’s legislature approved the deployment (AP) of one thousand police officers to Haiti to help quell rising gang violence in the country, however Kenya’s high court on Thursday extended orders blocking the deployment of police officers to Haiti.
• More Myanmar troops fleeing rebel attacks enter India (Reuters). At least 29 more Myanmar soldiers entered India on Thursday fleeing an attack by insurgents on their military base close to the Indian border, an Indian police official said, as rebels step up their assaults against the ruling junta .

Environment

• Philippines – Floods and landslides (ERCC). Heavy rainfall has been affecting the southern Luzon Island in central Philippines over the past 24 hours, causing floods and landslides that have resulted in evacuations and damage.
• Indonesia – Floods, update (ERCC). Heavy rainfall has been affecting northern Indonesia, in particular the northern Sumatra Island since 13 November, causing floods and the overflow of the Nenassiam River that have resulted in casualties and damage.
• Niger – Floods (ERCC). In August, September and October, heavy rain and widespread floods affected several parts of the country, resulting in casualties and damage. According to the latest report of IFRC and UN OCHA, at least 52 people have died, almost 20,216 households have been affected, among them 14,600 completely lost their houses.
• Tanzania – Floods (ERCC). Heavy rainfall has been affecting northern Tanazania, in particular the Arusha Region, bordering with southern Kenya since late October, causing floods, flash floods and rivers overflow that have resulted casualties and damage.
• Catastrophic flood drives Greek village of Metamorfosi to seek relocation (Reuters). Metamorfosi nearly disappeared beneath the water as Storm Daniel, which wrought havoc across the Mediterranean, struck the central Thessaly region on Sept 4-7, turning it into an inland sea. Standing in his uninhabitable, mud-stained house two months after the disaster, 80-year-old farmer Vassilis Tsatsarelis is among many who want authorities to relocate his village to a safer spot.
• The Lancet Countdown 2023 report. Due to human activity, the global 10-year mean temperature reached 1.14°C above pre-industrial levels in 2013–22, triggering global climate and environmental changes that pose an unequivocal, immediate, and worsening threat to the health and survival of people worldwide. A record hot summer caused almost 62 000 deaths in Europe in 2022; extreme floods affected 33 million people in Pakistan and 3.2 million people in Nigeria; a record drought in the Greater Horn of Africa, made more severe by climate change, contributed to worsening local food insecurity, which now affects 46.3 million people; wildfires scorched parts of Europe, South America, and China; and less noticeable, but deeply damaging, slow-onset climate-related events are altering infectious disease distribution, affecting food security, impacting essential infrastructure, and undermining socioeconomic determinants of health. As a result, the impacts of climate change on physical and mental health are rapidly growing.

Health

• Bangladesh dengue deaths toll surges past 1,500 (AA). Officials report 1,623 more hospitalizations across the country, and nearly 290,000 people infected by the mosquito-borne virus.
• Toxic smog gripping New Delhi grew more intense on Thursday (Reuters) as farm fires raged in nearby fields despite a court-ordered ban, making India’s capital the world’s most polluted city again.

Humanitarian

• Mozambique (ERCC). Humanitarian needs in Northern Mozambique are overwhelming, with some 2 million people requiring protection, food assistance, health and nutrition services, education, water and sanitation and shelter. Over 3.5 million people are currently facing severe food insecurity in the country; a third of them in Northern Mozambique.

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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