Lesser Reported Conflicts

Aren't they still fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

Also the struggle in West Papua

and western sahara

Kashmir

Haiti seems like such a nightmare I can't see how it can ever be brought back to a functioning society. The wealthy (presumably mostly making their money from corruption) send their children to schools in the US, which is understandable in the security context, but means they have little or no connection with ordinary Haitians who don't have that option.

Yes. There are several countries in the world right now that are basically failed states (Libya, Somalia) but Haiti seems to be the worst of them. it's hard to see it being brought to order without outside intervention. Kenya are apparently going to deploy 1000 police there but that seems woefully insufficient.

I think as Climate change continues to worsen we will see more countries spin into chaos and anarchy. The military juntas spreading across the Sahel in the last few years have the same root cause.

Haiti really is a example of the inmates taking over the asylum

from slave state to dictatorship to corrupt government one after another . 32 coups plus one ongoing , rampant crime and drug gangs and dependent almost entirely on foreign aid .

Yemen is similar in a way to Libya and Sudan whereby there are essentially competing armies that are recognised and supported by different countries. It's also calmed down quite a bit since the Saudi/UAE coalition came to realise that they couldn't dislodge the Houthis by carpet bombing them into submission.

What sets Haiti apart is it just seems to be a collection of disparate criminal gangs (at least 9) vying for power with no external countries supporting any of them. It's just chaos right now. One indicator of how bad it is is that, in the last few days, there was a mass jail break from the biggest jail in Port-au-Prince - over a hundred prisoners decided to stay in the jail as they deemed it safer there than on the outside.

If I had to choose between getting dropped into the middle of Sana'a or Port-au-Prince right now I would take Sana'a without hesitation.

I'm really beginning to think that foreign aid from the UN and various aid agencies is doing more harm than good in the long run. It just seems that it becomes a breeding ground for corruption and miss management.

Yeah, sometimes overseas aid seems like pissing into a hurricane.

One thing that stuck with me is a report from Sri Lanka after the tsunami in 2004: a delivery of fresh drinking water to a hard hit region was being used to clean the floor of the local police station.

Too many wars going on that don’t involve the US directly or by proxy so they get scant coverage in the western media.

I agree, I think this is a good time for this thread. What’s going on in Gaza is utterly horrifying but there are so, so many other huge conflicts going on in the world that you never, ever hear about on the news. I’ve already learned lots from about 20 posts here.

The fact a lot of gangs are former corrupt police units now all competing against other corrupt units for power is insane.

Law and Order my ârse, its generational corruption and greed cycles just repeating.

Reminds me of the genius who decided to bring God to one of the last uncontacted tribes on some island in the Indian Ocean…………I don't think he made it to the shore. They had to send some special forces types in to retrieve the body later.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/22/john-allen-chau-man-killed-by-tribe-north-sentinel-island-declare-jesus