When I pull into the lot at the Harold Parker State Forest in North Andover at 8am, the early morning fog still burning off, people in camouflage and combat boots unload boxes alongside my car. Straight ahead is a roadblock erected out of boards, its scrawled, red-painted letters ordering passerby to stop and have their papers ready.
I’ve arrived at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)’s three-day field simulation, which provides humanitarian students and professionals the rare opportunity to fully immerse themselves in the...
An armed conflict between rival factions of the military government of Sudan began on 15 April 2023, has led Sudan to the brink of renewed civil war. Fighting broke out in western Sudan, in the capital city of Khartoum and in the Darfur region. As of 25 April, at least 559 people have been killedand more than 4,000 others had been injured. The conflict began with attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on key government sites, and...
