The week power changed tables while the ground kept shaking

Nearly 400 deaths and reported gatherings in Kinshasa mobilized only a handful of African capitals and health newsrooms, while most of the world's attention went to a New York wedding and the transitions in the Gulf and North America. The epidemic ticks every box of a cross-border emergency, but its media invisibility keeps it off the diplomatic agenda, even as the underfunding of the response flows directly from that lack of attention.

The passing of 2,600 deaths and the rising anger at how the rescue was organized were followed closely mainly by Venezuela and its immediate neighbors, while the major powers treated the disaster as a distant humanitarian matter. The political dimension — a natural disaster becoming a test of the state apparatus — remains largely in the blind spot of capitals absorbed by Hormuz and the USMCA.

The announcement of 29 "militants" killed and its rejection by Kabul open one of the most divergent files of the week, yet stay confined to South Asia and a few neighbors. The factual disagreement over who was killed and why — militants or civilians, on whose soil — is precisely the kind of gray zone Western capitals dig into only in case of open escalation, leaving the Afghan-Pakistani border in a recurring blind spot.