The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Expected reduction in contributions by wealthy countries likely to cost millions of lives and billions in lost growth

Over 93,000 homes and 51,600 temporary shelters across Aleppo and Idleb Governorates were sprayed with WHO-approved insecticide to address the high threat of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the region.

MENTOR recently opened two Vector-Borne Disease Units in Azaz and Idleb City as part of ongoing efforts to address the high rates of leishmaniasis in northern Syria.

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Krisztian Magori reviews the horrid history of the impact of war and conflict on infectious diseases, the protection provided to civilians by international humanitarian law, and the track-record of co...

🦟 On World Mosquito Day we are sounding the alarm about the potential impact of funding cuts on global health programmes that prevent and treat mosquito-borne diseases. Already the effects are being ...

MENTOR and a local group have been providing safe drinking water to families in Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah displaced by the war in Gaza, amidst significant logistical and security challenges. Sinc...

The World Health Organization has issued a new recommendation for the use of spatial repellents, an innovative vector control tool for the control of malaria.

Samoa, Fiji and Tonga among the worst affected amid warning the disease and others will become ‘more common and more serious’ as the planet warms

From the tiger mosquito, now well established in Europe, to endemic species in the tropics or Pacific region, these insects have colonized vast areas of the planet and play a key role in local ecosyst...

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, a c...

Political platitudes and a few trucks of aid won’t save the children dying now. But they show leaders can’t ignore public opinion for ever, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The World Health Organization issued an urgent call for action on Tuesday to prevent a repeat of an epidemic of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus that swept the globe two decades ago, as new outbreaks linked to the Indian Ocean region spread to Europe and other continents.

Cutaneous leishmaniasis

A team of 30 workers recently began removing faecal and domestic waste in Gaza to address the growing public health crisis from the accumulation of untreated waste in shelters and host communities acr...