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BBC News Africa reports on the third year of Sudan's war. Humanitarian Research Lab Executive Director Nathaniel Raymond describes the scope and severity of attacks on civilians, especially in the Darfur region.
- April 03, 2026Source: Reuters
Leading Russian state oil and gas companies supported wartime camps where more than 2,000 Ukrainian children were taken, facilitating transportation and providing funds, according to a new report from the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.
- March 25, 2026Source: Associated Press
Image analysis by the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health shows that a major hospital in Sudan's Darfur region appears to have been specifically targeted in a recent drone attack.
- March 25, 2026Source: Radio Free Europe
A new report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab alleges that Russian state-linked energy giants Gazprom and Rosneft were directly involved in the transfer and political indoctrination of thousands of Ukrainian children.
- March 25, 2026Source: Scripps News Service
Russian energy firms are linked to thousands of Ukrainian children taken during the war, a new report from the Humanitarian Research Lab reveals.
- March 20, 2026Source: Radio Free Europe
$5 million is earmarked for the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, a key player in documenting the forced transfer of Ukrainian children into Russia’s custody. But whether the money will arrive before the lab's possible May 1 closure remains to be seen.
- March 13, 2026Source: Yale News
Yale School of Public Health alum Leslie Asanga founded Pills2Me to increase medication access through on-demand prescription delivery.
- March 10, 2026Source: Just Security
We conclude that the new Yale HRL report provides compelling evidence relevant to multiple RSF starvation crimes in the vicinity of El-Fasher, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. The region is central to an ongoing ICC investigation. Additionally, the report has broader significance beyond the situation in Sudan, as it models careful investigative analysis of satellite imagery and open-source data in documenting atrocity crimes as they unfold, when on-the-ground investigations are difficult or impossible.
- March 10, 2026
A new food security study by HRL corroborates findings that RSF razed at least 41 farming communities in the first months of their siege on El Fasher, North Darfur in 2024. Months later, 68% of these communities were depopulated and farmland decreased by 82%. This study corroborates UN Fact-Finding Mission report that RSF's actions in El Fasher were the "hallmarks of genocide".
- March 10, 2026Source: The Guardian
Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks on farming communities by the Rapid Support Forces were intended to prevent villages producing food