Mozambique, where the Islamic State operates unhindered Cabo Delgado is the ‘blood-red corner’ in the north of the country. The war began in 2017 and has so far claimed over 6,600 lives and displaced more than 1.3 million people by Carlo Ciavoni 09 November 2026
Gaza: over 100,000 displaced people left without shelter after the flooding – the difficult rescue efforts by NGOs Oxfam: “Over 65 per cent of the Strip has been made inaccessible by Israel; far too many people have nowhere safe to go.” An account from the organisation’s spokesperson 09 November 2026
Haiti caught between gangs and private and foreign armed forces. And children are dying, struck by drones Adding to the island’s chaos is the deployment of 2,000 soldiers from El Salvador following the kidnapping of four of their military technicians. There are opaque rules of engagement for soldiers from poor countries sent to fight the armed gangs Carlo Ciavoni 09 November 2026
Lab-designed war dogs: a US start-up raises 200 million to modify DNA In the background are the founders of Colossal and Anduril. The plan is to sell them to the military and the police. The price is not yet known Giorgia Cacciolatti 07 November 2026
Democratic Republic of the Congo: survivors of sexual assault hindered by the authorities In North Kivu medical confidentiality does not exist, leading to a drastic decline in access to healthcare 06 November 2026
South Sudan: medical care and treatment for over 100,000 people are at risk of being lost The IOM is sounding the alarm: the funding crisis could lead to the closure of the country’s last remaining healthcare facility 06 November 2026
Mozambique, violence in the province of Cabo Delgado: thousands of deaths and beheadings over the past ten years Data from the International Organisation for Migration on the waves of displacement. Armed Islamist groups emerge where there is poverty, social marginalisation and the usual ‘resource curse’ 04 November 2026
Biodiversity: the words to reach an agreement are there, but the money is not At COP 17 in Yerevan, governments admitted that 22 out of 23 targets are behind schedule and promised to step up the pace. But when it comes to funding, once again, everyone is going their own way Antonio Cianciullo 31 October 2026
Gaza: the Israeli blockade makes it impossible to produce any more masks for burn victims The report by Médecins Sans Frontières staff. Testimony from the head of MSF’s physiotherapy programme 31 October 2026
Weapons, logistics and the global routes of the arms trade: the silent passages, even in Italy An investigative book available in bookshops, published by ‘Altreconomia’ 30 October 2026
Gaza, an EMERGENCY midwife: “People live in tents and the latrines are just a hole in the sand” The account of Giulia Folci, who works at the EMERGENCY clinic in al-Qarara and assists pregnant women 29 October 2026
Sudan: drone attack on a market in Nyala leaves 36 dead and over 150 injured The account from Médecins Sans Frontières staff. It is the attack with the highest number of dead and injured people that MSF humanitarian workers can recall this year 27 October 2026
Haiti: the constant displacement of the civilian population due to violent clashes between gangs Thousands of people are fleeing the commune of Petite Rivière in the Artibonite department, some 120 km from the capital, Port-au-Prince Carlo Ciavoni 25 October 2026