“Traumas are not something to avoid,” Salma Shurrab, 22, told NBC News. “They are the stuff that build, make us fuller and make us more experienced and full of life.” W/ Gabe Joselow + Lara Fernández + Charlene Gubash nbcnews.com/news/world/gaz…

Darfur is burning and more than a quarter of Sudan’s population of 47 million have been driven from their homes since civil war broke #Sudan NBC News⁩ nbcnews.com/news/world/sud…

nbcnews.com/news/world/sud… Sudan is burning. Tracking the imminent fall of El Fasher, Darfur and the unfolding humanitarian crisis by following the fires burning a path of destruction on the way. With Centre for Information Resilience MSF International and Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH

Proud of the nod for our Wagner reporting with our excellent team at On Assignment with Richard Engel

Ukrainians race to evacuate their homes as fierce fighting rages near eastern city of Pokrovsk. Our hope is to come back someday and that our house is not destroyed,” Oksana Belova told NBC News. Report by Richard Engel Gabe Joselow & Victor Sema. nbcnews.com/news/world/rus…

🚨BREAKING: Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH corroborates alleged mass killings of civilians in Gezira by RSF through satellite imagery analysis. Body disposal, large-scale burials at cemeteries, & presence of looting visible at Tamboul, Rufaa, & Al-Sariha. 🛰️ Planet Maxar Technologies medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnood/…

Young musicians from Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) escaped the fanatical Taliban’s grasp and made it all the way to one of music’s biggest stages, @CarnegieHall. “Each note that we play today, it's a note of protest,” the orchestra’s director, Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, tells Richard Engel. Watch

Meanwhile in #Bukavu thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest the attack on Goma by the #M23 and #RDF, and affirm that eastern Congo is part of the #DRC "il n'y a pas de RDC sans l'Est". Fear is growing that #Rwanda plans to annex the entire Kivu region.

#M23 says it has full control of the airport after nearly 48h of heavy fighting - the airport also the site of a major MONUSCO base. There are still pockets of resistance across town but the M23/RDF seem to have near complete control over #Goma

What a thrill to hold this month’s issue of National Geographic magazine and open it to see the faces and words of Congolese researchers studying the Congo Basin rainforest splashed across 24 pages of this iconic publication 🌱🌍🔬

For two years now, Sudan has been torn apart by civil war between the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Millions of Sudanese have fled, many to neighboring Chad. nehawadekar and Zoe Flood report on the crisis on Chad’s eastern border, where