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 

• Injuries as Mozambique police fire on opposition protest (BBC) – At least a dozen people were injured after Mozambican police violently dispersed a protest led by opposition leader Venâncio Mondlane, the runner-up in last year’s disputed presidential election, Mondlane’s team and a civil society group say. Mondlane’s team said two children from a nearby school had died from the shooting. It said 16 people had been injured, including their camera person, with others seriously affected by tear gas.  
• Mexican authorities find 275,000 fentanyl pills, powder hidden in boxes of cactus (AP News) – Mexican law enforcement said they seized some 275,000 pills of the lethal drug in the border state of Sonora, on its way to Arizona, and that they arrested a 29-year-old man. The drugs were valued at about $6.5 million. Authorities found both pills and the drug in powder form. 
• Romania detains 6 on suspicion of plotting a coup in collusion with Russia (AP News) – Six people suspected of colluding with Russia to plot a coup against the Romanian government have been detained, according to police in the European Union and NATO-member country.  
• South Korea air force jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15 (Reuters) – South Korean fighter jets accidentally dropped eight bombs on a civilian district on Thursday, injuring 15 people and damaging houses and a church during military exercises in Pocheon, the Air Force and fire agency said. The fire agency said in a statement that 15 people were wounded, including two who were seriously hurt. 

Demonstrations 

• Bangladesh police use tear gas to disperse Islamist march in Dhaka (Reuters) – Police in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka used tear gas and sound grenades on Friday to disperse hundreds of members of the banned militant group Hizb-ut-Tahrir seeking to march to demand the country’s secular democracy be replaced by an Islamic caliphate. 

Infrastructure 

• Buenos Aires power outage leaves over 600,000 customers without electricity (AP News) – The blackout began Wednesday at 12:40 p.m. with the sudden failure of a high-voltage power line and hit over 622,000 customers mere hours after officials had restored service from an early morning outage, the Secretariat of Energy said.  

Environment 

• Indonesia – Severe weather and floods (ERCC) – Java Island continues to experience heavy rainfall and consequent floods that are resulting in an increasing amount of evacuated and affected people. ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet) reports more than 1,000 evacuated people, almost 78,000 affected people, as well as about 24,000 houses across the provinces of West Java and Banten. 
• Ecuador – Severe weather, floods and landslides (ERCC) – Heavy rain continues to hit most parts of Ecuador, causing floods, triggering landslides, and increasing the number of casualties. At least 14 people died – four in Manabi, two in El Oro, Imbabura, and Loja and one in Los Rios, Pichincha, Tungurahua and Zamora Chinchipe provinces – and 91 others have been injured. Additionally, 170 people have been evacuated, 75,811 affected and more than 20,000 houses were affected, 89 of them destroyed. 
• Schools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone approaches Australian coast (AP News) – Early wind and rain from a rare tropical cyclone began lashing part of eastern Australia on Thursday as schools were closed, public transport was stopped and desperate residents got around shortages of sandbags by buying potting mix. 
• Heat wave in southern Brazil prompts five cities to suspend classes (AP News) – Five cities in southern Brazil suspended classes Thursday due to a heat wave, authorities said, as temperatures in some places rose as high as 36 degrees Celsius (97 degrees Fahrenheit). 

Health 

• Funding cuts jeopardies global fight against tuberculosis (UN News) – The UN World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The health agency highlighted that essential prevention, testing and treatment services are collapsing, leaving millions at risk. 
• Two fatal probable cases reported in Uganda’s Ebola Sudan outbreak (CIDRAP) – An investigation into Uganda’s latest Ebola Sudan patient, a 4-year-old boy who recently died, revealed that his mother and newborn sibling died a few weeks earlier from likely Ebola virus infections, the World Health Organization (WHO) African regional office said in its weekly health emergencies update. 

Humanitarian 

• Sudan: Access to stricken Zamzam camp is nearly impossible (UN News) – Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region are now “nearly impossible” to reach, the UN’s top aid official in the country warned on Thursday. Zamzam camp is around 15 kilometers south of El Fasher town, the capital of North Darfur, which has been besieged by militia forces opposing the Government in Khartoum now for months. It opened in 2004 to shelter people uprooted by the war in the west of the country. 

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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