Caitlin Howarth

Conflict Analytics Director @HRL_YaleSPH // atrocity early warning/rapid response via responsible data + tech // New Haven

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

🚨BREAKING🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH identifies a drone (UAV) in Nyala consistent with a Chinese-made drone linked to UAE’s International Golden Group visible in satellite imagery from 6 May 2026. This UAV is consistent with a BZK-005E, a surveillance UAV with a reported 370 kg payload capacity and a range of 2400 kilometers.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

🛰️ @vantortech
https://t.co/rBYTo9SOrD

[Reuters @Reuters]

A Sudanese paramilitary commander who was arrested late last year following global outrage over videos of him executing unarmed people in al-Fashir has been released from prison and returned to active duty on the battlefield, nine sources told Reuters https://t.co/sbpbmVF5wx

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

Heartbroken that Bellevue’s Program for Survivors of Torture led by legendary @AllenKellerMD is set to close. This short sighted move by @BellevueHosp that will be catastrophic for patients who need this unique care. Read incredible reporting by @nytimes https://t.co/dW8Gfu6PV7

[Caitlin Howarth @CaitlinHowarth]

@CPJAfrica @CPJMENA Highly concerned about this report re disappearance of #Million_Beyene

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

#Notice: 48 hours since our colleague Million Beyene disappeared without a trace.

Addis Abeba - Forty-eight hours after he was taken, the whereabouts of #Million_Beyene, Managing Editor of Addis Standard, remain unknown.

The #newsroom has learned that his phone was briefly active at around 10:00 p.m. last night before going silent again, raising further concern about his safety and condition.

His family and colleagues are enduring growing distress.

JAKENN Publishing PLC renews its urgent call for his safe and immediate return, and urges the relevant authorities, including the Addis Ababa Police and the Federal Police Commission, to act without delay to establish his whereabouts.

We also call on the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (#EHRC) to investigate this apparent enforced disappearance and ensure accountability.

#WhereIsMillion
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#PressFreedom
#BringMillionHome

[Caitlin Howarth @CaitlinHowarth]

I would also turn off location data for every app except those that absolutely require it (maps/transit apps), keep your location off by default. You’d be surprised how many apps insist on wanting your location and don’t need it *at all* to function.

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.

And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.

Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.

No warrant required.

Our latest @citizenlab investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning.

And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep.

Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones.

No warrant required.

Our latest @citizenlab investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

I just conducted an unprompted, late night oversight visit at an ICE holding facility at the Mesa Gateway Airport with @RepGregStanton and @Rep_Grijalva. What we saw was shocking and sick.

Well over 240 detainees stacked like sardines in cells. People were sick and ICE was refusing medical care.

Here’s what happened.

[ICIJ @ICIJorg]

Work with us!

ICIJ is looking for a D.C.-based seasoned investigative reporter.

An opportunity to independently investigate some of the most important topics of our time, tell stories that bring truths to light and be in an award-winning team.

Learn more: https://t.co/dljNc7CCQp

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

🚨BREAKING🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH identifies military assistance to RSF occurring at Ethiopian army (ENDF) Base in Asosa, Ethiopia. Technical vehicles are fitted with weapons at Asosa Base.

RSF supply lines to Blue Nile go through Ethiopia.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
🛰️ @planet @vantortech

https://t.co/rBYTo9SgC5

[Oscar Rickett @oscarrickettnow]

Exclusive

The Ethiopian army base covertly supporting the RSF in Sudan.

The base in Asosa is connected to UAE supply lines. Over the past few months, satellite imagery shows a wide range of military activity linking Ethiopia to the war in Sudan

https://t.co/lENdVJizbt

[CPJ MENA @CPJMENA]

CPJ is looking for an Assistant Editor, MENA (Fixed-Term) to join our team.

📝 Write, edit, and publish news alerts, statements, features, and social media content aligned with CPJ’s press freedom mission.
🌍 Remote (MENA or similar timezone).
⏳ 8-month contract | Urgent hire.

https://t.co/5kwSQWs5Rt

[Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror @profbensaul]

I join UN experts in urging protecting against civilians in South Sudan from war crimes and violence, including acts intended to spread terror

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Thousands of women and girls in Sudan have sought treatment after surviving sexual violence in the country’s civil war, Doctors Without Borders has found, in what it called “a pattern of deliberate tactics designed to humiliate and terrorize.” https://t.co/w3j6Gt3vaG

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

@ConsumerReports @gijn @RSF_inter @accessnow 5/ More links & resources for journalists
https://t.co/exbV5GpLWR

[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

@ConsumerReports @gijn 4/ Special shoutout to key organizations with helplines & security teams that help journalists be safer like @RSF_inter & @accessnow

CONTACT INFO:

RSF Digital Security Lab: https://t.co/BT8csdWKOg

AccessNow Helpline: https://t.co/isU1TjW7kK

[MSF Sudan @MSF_Sudan]

MSF shares new data on sexual violence in Darfur, #Sudan
3,396 survivors treated between Jan 2024–Nov 2025.
732 in one month in Tawila, after the fall of El Fasher.
These are only the cases that reached care.

[Evan Hill @evanhill]

The massacre at El Fasher, arguably the worst since the Rwandan genocide, was enabled by the UAE, and the UK and US, which declined to do anything that could stop them, this new Guardian piece argues https://t.co/6hsNDV6bCP

[Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at YSPH @HRL_YaleSPH]

🚨New Report🚨 @HRL_YaleSPH corroborates fire damage from a 21 March 2026 incidental fire in Al Umda IDP camp in Tawila, North Darfur through satellite imagery analysis. The fire reportedly displaced 971 households.

The scale of damage from incidental fires indicates that IDPs in Tawila do not have sufficient humanitarian aid or resources.

The majority of IDPs in Al Umda, Tawila fled RSF’s attack on Zamzam IDP Camp in April 2025.

#KeepEyesOnSudan
🛰️@Vantortech
https://t.co/rBYTo9SOrD

[Rozina Ali @rozina_ali]

"Eventually the trucks could not move: there were too many bodies."

A chilling timeline of a massacre, and a damning indictment of the UAE, and the failures of the UK, US, and UN.

[Chatham House @ChathamHouse]

Happening now.

The Emergency Response Rooms have been awarded the 2025 Chatham House Prize, in recognition of their crucial role in delivering humanitarian assistance during the ongoing war in Sudan.

Find out more➡️https://t.co/gtSayT1ayI