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Honduras's emergency agency COPECO warns residents to take precautions as a mass of Saharan dust is forecast to arrive this weekend.

Drought, soaring prices for seeds and fertilizer, and limited access to credit are cutting production of Honduras's staple grains, corn and beans, officials warn.

The Cabinet declared a six-month health emergency nationwide after confirming H5 avian flu in wild birds and at a breeding farm in Santa Bárbara, while pledging to maintain priority investment projects.

The Health Ministry has detected more than 200 suspected measles cases and is intensifying epidemiological surveillance nationwide to track and contain the outbreak.

The Defense Ministry opened a public international auction for the presidential Embraer Legacy 600 aircraft, a move to divest the asset.

The opposition Partido Libre warns that proposed reforms to Honduras's electrical system would lead to the privatization of the state utility ENEE and threaten its existence.

Tegucigalpa Mayor Juan Diego Zelaya says the expansion of Puente Germania will be completed in early October, according to municipal authorities.

About 1,600 agricultural workers from Honduras and Guatemala will travel to Spain in 2026 for temporary fruit-picking jobs in Huelva under circular-migration programs that the Inter-American Development Bank describes as orderly and safe labor mobility.

Honduras's Constitutional Chamber admitted a constitutional appeal by Roberto Contreras, president of the Liberal Party's executive committee, challenging the appointments of Francisco Ávila and Octavio Pineda and suspending those appointments pending the court's decision.

Firefighters recovered the body of a third person killed in a major landslide in southern Tegucigalpa.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to return a deported Honduran man who allegedly was tricked into signing his deportation without being allowed to present his case before an immigration court.

Leonardo Deras, a commissioner at electricity regulator CREE, warned that state utility ENEE is losing 1.3 billion lempiras (about $52 million) a month and that, without action, losses could reach 150,000 million lempiras (about $6 billion) in coming years.

ENEE manager Guillermo Peña cited insufficient investment and maintenance of the electricity grid as the root cause of Honduras's recurring power outages.

Guatemala presented its legal arguments to the International Court of Justice regarding the strategic Zapotillo archipelago, which Honduras and Belize also claim.

Senasa confirmed detection of avian influenza at a commercial poultry farm in San Pedro Zacapa, Santa Bárbara, triggering containment protocols to prevent spread.

The Liberal Party's congressional bloc said it will not support a reform to the state power utility (ENEE) unless the proposal explicitly guarantees the company will not be privatized.

Honduras's Security Ministry updated its list of ten most-wanted fugitives following a U.S. announcement of increased rewards for information leading to the capture of two senior MS-13 leaders operating in the region.

A congressional committee unanimously approved a one-year amnesty period allowing Hondurans to register unregistered firearms without penalty, officials say the measure aims to bring illegal weapons into the legal system.

Honduras has recorded 14 whooping cough deaths so far in 2026, a 75% increase over the eight deaths reported throughout all of 2025.

Argentine coach Silvio Rudman, recently departed from Boca Juniors, has been named manager of Honduran first-division club Marathón in San Pedro Sula following the team's loss in the recent Clausura final.

The Libre party's congressional bloc has proposed a popular consultation to let Hondurans decide the future direction of ENEE, the state electrical utility.

Honduras's Supreme Court voided Memorandum 02/2026 on gender identity, which had been issued earlier in 2026.

US and Mexican authorities recorded a 67% decline in arrests of Central American migrants compared to 2025.

The head of the Cortés Chamber of Commerce warned that a new increase to electricity rates will reduce competitiveness in the industrial region.

Finance Minister Emilio Hércules announced that Honduras will meet with the IMF's executive board on June 29, and said he hopes the board will issue a favorable communiqué for the country.

The Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce forecasts that payments of the traditional 14th-month bonus will pump approximately L24.9 billion (about $1 billion USD) into the public and private sectors combined.

Juan Orlando Hernández's lawyer announced the former president will return to Honduras on July 1 after years of extradition and imprisonment in the United States on drug-trafficking charges.

A report warns that 77 territorial conflicts, most described as high-intensity, remain active in Honduras amid what analysts characterize as a shift toward punitive government responses.

FOSDEH economist Mario Palma says Honduras's public debt has risen to $18.454 billion this year, up from previous levels.

Ninfa Suyapa Flores, the former director of Honduras's juvenile detention institute, appeared in court for her arraignment hearing on charges related to her tenure at the agency.