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

• On Saturday 3 December, an IED/mine exploded against a cart with civilians on board in the area of Kolongo in Central Mali (ERCC). It killed eight people of whom seven were women. Recently in the same area radical armed groups have burned rice fields, and imposed the closure of schools with threats.
• More and more people are fleeing their homes in North Kivu province in Democratic Republic of the Congo (ERCC), due to persisting armed conflict between non-state armed actor “M23” and the Congolese army (FARDC): Over 390,000 Congolese people have become internally displaced because of the fighting, according to the United Nations (OCHA).
• Congolese government ups toll in massacre to 272 civilians (Reuters on MSN.com). Democratic Republic of Congo’s government on Monday said 272 civilians were killed in a massacre in the eastern town of Kishishe last week, raising the death toll from a previous estimate of 50.
• Report: Guards Massacred 83 Tigrayan Prisoners at Camp in Southern Ethiopia (VOA). A published report says Ethiopian guards and villagers massacred 83 Tigrayan prisoners at a camp in southern Ethiopia last November in what the report calls the deadliest killing of imprisoned soldiers since the Tigray war started more than two years ago.
• 3 killed in repeat bombing at recent train derailment site (The Bangkok Post). Three railway workers in Malaysia were killed and four colleagues injured when another bomb exploded on Tuesday morning at the site of Saturday’s railway bombing in Sadao district, officials said.
• Honduras suspends rights in 2 big cities amid gang crackdown (YAHOO!News). Honduras became the second country in Central America to impose a state of exception suspending some constitutional rights to help fight street gangs when a decree took effect Monday.
• The legislature in Indonesia passed a revision of the country’s criminal code that criminalizes sex outside of marriage for citizens and foreigners and bans defamation of the president and state institutions (AP). Once in force, the bans will affect foreign visitors as well as citizens.

Natural Disasters

• Since the end of November, heavy rainfall has been affecting several States of southern Brazil with floods and landslides (ERCC), which have resulted in at least eight fatalities.
• After the landslide event caused on 4 November in Risaralda Department in central-western Colombia (ERCC), the number of fatalities has increased to 34 in Cabaña Sector, of the national road connecting Risaralda to Choco Department, as reported by the National Unit for Disaster Risk Management (UNGRD).
• Heavy rain has affected parts of the Ucayali Department in central Peru over the past week (ERCC), causing widespread damage.
• Heavy rain has been affecting the central-eastern provinces of Vietnam (ERCC), causing floods, triggering landslides and leading to casualties and damage.

Demonstrations

• Fuel runs short at South Korean petrol stations as union plans general strike alongside truckers (Reuters). A nationwide strike by South Korean truckers has led nearly 100 petrol stations across the country to run dry, government data show, and a national trade union said it would launch a general strike on Tuesday in support of the drivers.
• Rail strike new dates are set to affect millions of people in the UK traveling for Christmas and to football games (London Evening Standard on MSN.com). Football fans are facing travel chaos when the Premier League returns after extra rail strikes were scheduled over Christmas.
• Shopkeepers and truck drivers staged walkouts in almost forty cities across Iran in a show of solidarity with anti-government protesters (The Guardian). Demonstrators had called for a three-day general strike after eleven weeks of protests, which were sparked when a Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died after being detained by the country’s morality police. Strikes were reported in major cities such as Tehran and across western Iran, home to most of the country’s Kurdish population.
• Thousands of people protested in Mongolia’s capital (AFP, Al Jazeera), Ulaanbaatar, calling for justice for corrupt officials and for parliament to be dismissed. Thousands of people braved freezing temperatures in Mongolia’s capital to protest against alleged corruption in the country’s coal industry and soaring inflation, with some later attempting to storm government house.

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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