Portal:Current events/2020 April 11

• Second Libyan Civil War
  • The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Libya condemns the cut-off of water supply to the capital Tripoli, after an armed group seized a Great Man-Made River control station. The armed group is reportedly using the water cut-off, affecting two million people, to secure the release of detained family members. (Al Jazeera)
• Boko Haram insurgency
  • Chad reportedly ends its military participation with the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) countering Boko Haram, saying Chadian ground forces will no longer operate outside its borders. (Reuters)

• Paul McCartney's handwritten copy of The Beatles' "Hey Jude" is sold in a virtual auction for US$910,000, almost six times its estimated value. (CNN)

• Anak Krakatoa, part of the Krakatoa complex in Indonesia's Sunda Strait, erupts. (Channel 9)
• 2020 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone wildfires
  • A village near the mostly abandoned town of Poliske is evacuated, as forest fires continue to spread inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. (Euronews)

• COVID-19 pandemic
  • COVID-19 pandemic in South America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil
      • Brazil becomes the first country in the Southern Hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths from COVID-19, as the death toll rises to 1,068 and 19,789 total cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. (BBC News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in Europe
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom
      • The Department of Health and Social Care reports 917 more deaths from COVID-19, bringing the UK's death toll to 9,875. Victims in the latest figures were aged between 11 and 102, while 33 people had no known underlying health conditions. (Sky News)
  • COVID-19 pandemic in North America
    • COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
      • With 20,071 deaths, the United States' death toll from COVID-19 passes that of Italy and becomes the country with the highest number of known COVID-19 deaths in the world. (CNBC)

• Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Sudan's Health Minister Akram Ali Altom says that his country urgently needs US$120 million to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. While the country has registered relatively few cases and two deaths, Altom says that if it spreads, the country is not prepared to face it. (Reuters)