Author and writer: Humanitarian, Human Rights, Development, War and Peace. Ex UN, WHO, Red Cross Red Crescent, UK Government. Professor Emeritus Univ of Manchester
Sudan: we hear that the road Khartoum-El Obeid is now under SAF control. Does it mean El Obeid's million+ in desperate need safe now? Depends on if military business or humanitarian flows are prioritised and how RSF fight back. My remarks at RTWorld: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkVt...
Sudan’s El Obeid residents trapped amid intense RSF drone attacksYouTube video by TRT World Nowwww.youtube.comIssue 2 of my Vital Signs in Global Health column: What got my pulse racing were first, the shenanigans around trillions$ food industry and billions$ obesity meds business & meanwhile Ebola outruns hollowed-out WHO. Read @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/markets-offe...
Markets Offer Costly Cures While Courts Ensnare Prevention; Meanwhile Ebola Response Stumbles - Health Policy WatchThat also raises a question for those seeking to succeed Dr Tedros next year as Director General. How can that high office allow its holder to shape eventshealthpolicy-watch.newsDo major catastrophes change history or do nations just absorb the shock & stumble on? I look at this old political question at E-International Relations through lessons from other quakes in second of my articles on Venezuela's fork in the road. Which way will it go? www.e-ir.info/2026/07/22/o...
Opinion – The Deepest Fault Line of the Venezuela Earthquake Is Political – E-International RelationsEarthquakes can strip away the pretences behind which weak governments shelter and hand grieving people the clarity of seeing their rulers tested.www.e-ir.infoAre we misdiagnosing violence/wars? What if they spread like contagious diseases eg Covid/Ebola & we could cure/manage them with same public health tools even in Sudan, Gaza, Congo etc? Dr Gary Slutkin’s paradigm-shifting chat on my FadingCauses #podcast. Watch/listen youtube.com/watch?v=1DwZ...
EPISODE 22: Is Violence a Contagious Disease? with Gary SlutkinYouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcastyoutube.comThe #Venezuela earthquake response is among the worst worldwide of recent quake responses with many previous lessons unlearnt or deliberately ignored, thereby compounding the original 'natural' tragedy. My thoughts on this in the first of two articles: www.mukeshkapila.org/in-venezuela...
I am experimenting with new regular column @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social on whatever strikes me as interesting or critical in Global Health over preceding week+. I will evolve with experience. Your feedback & suggestions welcome. Here is first edition: healthpolicy-watch.news/vital-signs-...
Vital Signs: Reading Critical Developments In Global Health - Health Policy WatchLast week, one phrase — “self-reliance” — did more work in global health than any medicine, as global agencies continue operationalising donor retreats theyhealthpolicy-watch.newsAI wont save humanitarianism and could it quietly finish hollowing it out? It may sharpen planning, logistics but it cant manufacture a missing food ration. Nor can it make the moral triaging choices of who gets helped. My latest oped for The National News www.mukeshkapila.org/should-we-tr...
For what it is worth - my take on lifr from living the life. theysaidso.org/mukesh-kapil...
WHY ‘NEVER AGAIN’ HAPPENS AGAIN - THEY SAID SOMukesh Kapila, Emeritus Professor, University of Manchestertheysaidso.orgTwo teenage girls in obstructed labour in South Sudan flown to hospital. One reached the operating room in time. One didn't. That margin is the whole story of global surgery. My new Fading Causes conversation with Dr Geoff Ibbotson, CEO of Global Surgery Foundation 🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtZ7...
EPISODE 21: Is Surgery The Neglected Step-Child of Global Health? with Geoff IbbotsonYouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcastwww.youtube.comOne of the world's most pointless elections: Odd how countries slag off the paralysed UN Security Council & then flight tooth-and-claw for a second-class seat on it from which they can posture to no effect. passblue.com/2026/06/03/f...
Five New Countries Elected to the UN Security Council's 2027-28 Term - PassBlueFive New Countries Elected to the UN Security Council's 2027-28 Term - PassBluepassblue.comHere we go again - Ebola comes back as a Public Health Emergency of International Importance in DRC, Uganda, and potentially threatening other countries in region. Something else to panic about? My short remarks in this TRT interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yI8...
WHO: New strain of Ebola has no vaccine, no specific treatmentYouTube video by TRT World Nowwww.youtube.comWas the captain premature in concluding the sudden first death on cruise ship was natural when he & ship doctor didnt know man's previous medical history and could not conduct a post mortem either. My remarks via @trtworld Nexus programme #Hantavirüs www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSh...
How The Media Used Hantavirus To Scare UsYouTube video by Nexuswww.youtube.comAre we doomed to fight yesterday's battles in global health? So much energy needing expenditure to sooth misinformation, mistrust in public concerns around Hantavirus comparisons with Covid19 when the strategic challenge is elsewhere. My interview alongside others: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pF0...
Should we be worried about the Hantavirus outbreak? | Inside StoryYouTube video by Al Jazeera Englishwww.youtube.comWhat’s tormenting #Haiti? Who to blame for its poverty & violence,as colonisation ended 220+yrs ago. But interference didn’t. Is it Haiti’s tragic geography stuck in the groin of the US? I ask expert Michael Deibert in the latest episode of my Fading Causes Podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGGC...
EPISODE 20: What Is Tormenting Haiti? with Michael DeibertYouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcastwww.youtube.comPutting numerals in front of billions and trillions of dollars make the wars more shocking in terms of costs than just getting horrified by the numbers of casualties incurred - such is the way that we get impressed nowadays www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
The cost of 76 years of US wars, from Korea to IranAl Jazeera breaks down the human and financial cost of decades of US-led wars and its latest war on Iran.www.aljazeera.comThe humanitarian legacy of the war in Iran and Lebanon will continue to give and give well beyond the battlefields - even if and when these go quiet. My latest opinion piece via The National News: www.mukeshkapila.org/the-humanita...
“If you get raped, dont come back home”. How the sexually violated victims of the vicious war in Sudan incl Darfur die again and again while apparently surviving. Must watch/listen to my latest Fading Causes podcast interview with Rahmet Elfikhi of TRT Arabi www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej6f...
EPISODE 19: How Did Rape Become a Weapon of War in Sudan? with Rahmet ElfikhiYouTube video by The Fading Causes Podcastwww.youtube.comIs sending the thugs of one failing state to control thugs of another a genius or cynical idea? I really dont know & so genuinely ask: #Chad overstaffed with murderous veteran fighters sees Trump-encouraged UN-mandated #Haiti security op as “welcome gig.” passblue.com/2026/03/30/w...
Will the UN-Backed Gang Suppression Force for Haiti Ever Materialize? - PassBlueWill the UN-Backed Gang Suppression Force for Haiti Ever Materialize? - PassBluepassblue.comRape is so normalised amidst the war in Darfur, Sudan that some women request prophylaxis before they venture out -knowing they will get raped. Powerful report from MSF. www.msf.org/msf-report-f...
MSF report finds no safe places for women and girls in Darfur | MSFOur latest report on Sudan documents widespread and systematic sexual violence across roads, fields and displacement camps in Darfur, both in areas affected by conflict and far from frontlines.www.msf.org