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Honduras launched a two-year, $1 million project to strengthen surveillance and combat antimicrobial resistance across health, agriculture, animal, and environmental sectors through coordinated national action.

Tegucigalpa's city government (AMDC) launched a cleanup operation on World Cleanup Day following storms that struck the capital on Saturday.

Amnesty International's global director Erika Guevara says Honduras faces persistent cycles of impunity for violence and severe human rights violations against land and environmental defenders.

Prosecutors have charged 11 Central Bank of Honduras employees and former employees with negligent embezzlement for allowing ex-prosecutor Francia Medina to withdraw L88.8 million (about $3.5 million) in seized evidence from bank vaults without proper authorization.

Employees of the fraudulent medical clinic Nueva Med say its Colombian management fabricated medical credentials, threatened workers into silence with confidentiality contracts, and used call centers with Honduran databases to solicit patients for costly fake treatments.

Dozens of Honduran men, women, and families left San Pedro Sula on September 20, heading toward the Corinto border crossing with Guatemala in what appears to be the first such caravan of 2026.

About 400 farmers in Valle Department received 400,000 pounds of sorghum and corn silage from the Agriculture Ministry to feed livestock amid drought conditions, in a program costing 1.2 million lempiras (about $48,000) across nine municipalities.

Authorities arrested Orbin Enrique Velásquez Mendoza, alias Torba, a 29-year-old suspected member of the Berna criminal organization, on a warrant linked to the June 2024 kidnapping and disappearance of José Octavio Sosa Méndez and 11 others near Puerto Cortés.

Heavy rainfall Saturday night in Tegucigalpa caused 10 floods, a sinkhole, a landslide, a cave-in, a downed tree, and a damaged pedestrian bridge across multiple neighborhoods, with an overflowing stream flooding workshops and homes in Hato de Enmedio.

The Campaign Finance, Transparency, and Oversight Unit (UFTF) has identified newly elected congressmen and mayors for the 2026–2030 term who failed to submit required financial disclosures of their campaign spending.

The US Embassy in Tegucigalpa is hiring a mail-room assistant at L294,594 annually (about $11,800) with a high-school diploma, one year of customer-service or office experience, English and Spanish fluency, and a valid driver's license; applications close September 24.

The National Congress returns to session on Monday, September 21, after a recess for Children's Day and Independence Day, implementing a four-day work week through the end of September to clear 14 stalled bills from a prioritized package and debate electoral reforms, criminal-justice changes, and the 2027 budget.

The Atlantic basin has produced five tropical storms but zero hurricanes through mid-September 2026—well below the typical four hurricanes by this date—as strengthening El Niño conditions in the Pacific suppress Atlantic storm development.

The Honduran Medical College has called all physicians nationwide to an emergency informational assembly on Sunday at 7 a.m.

Federal prosecutors are moving to strip a Honduran man of U.S. citizenship obtained in 2008, alleging he concealed a 1999 deportation order issued under a different name and hid his prior immigration history during naturalization.

The Houston Astros paid tribute to Honduran utility player Mauricio Dubón with a three-minute video at Minute Maid Park as he returned with the Atlanta Braves, recognizing his role in the 2022 World Series championship and his status as Honduras's first World Series winner and Gold Glove recipient in the majors.

Residents of Cerro Colorado in Lempira, frustrated by stalled government water projects, are pooling their own money and materials to drill a well to meet their basic water needs.

The rector of the National Autonomous University of Honduras says the institution has secured funding to continue free campus transportation for roughly 20,000 students during the third academic period.

The national power company ENEE will cut electricity to a residential circuit in San Pedro Sula's Bellavista neighborhood on Monday, September 21, from 8:45 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. for scheduled line maintenance.

Carlos Enrique Cantarero, who spent four years living on the street after his mother died in 2002 and his family abandoned him, earned his law degree from Honduras's national university on September 19 with support from Casa Alianza and child welfare agencies.

Streets in the Kennedy neighborhood of Tegucigalpa flooded on September 19 after heavy downpours hit the capital.

A 50-year-old merchant was rescued alive in a mountainous area of Santa Rita, Copán, after being held for several days by kidnappers who demanded 2 million lempiras (about $80,000).

Military police arrested Nelson Antonio Gómez Licona and Carlos David Portillo Rivera in Chamelecón, seizing cocaine, crack, marijuana, and 14,600 lempiras (about $585) in cash during separate operations.

An international solidarity delegation called on Honduras to enforce four Inter-American Court of Human Rights rulings favoring Garifuna communities, which have faced long delays in implementation.

Annual forest losses from fires, illegal logging, and beetle infestations—between 60,000 and 70,000 hectares—are severely damaging Honduras's timber industry, according to government sources and the country's largest forestry company.

The National Vocational Training Institute (INFOP) offers more than 100 online courses to serve Hondurans living abroad, expanding access to professional development for the diaspora.

A Colorado federal judge ordered US authorities to arrange the return of Brian Omar Sánchez, a Honduran deported to the Central African Republic, with authorities required to respond by September 25.

Tegucigalpa's mayor coordinated the deployment of more than 20 first-response teams to strategic points across the capital ahead of forecast heavy rain this weekend to accelerate emergency care in vulnerable neighborhoods.

A tropical wave interacting with Pacific winds will bring moderate to heavy rainfall and thunderstorms across much of Honduras on Sunday, September 20, with the heaviest accumulation expected in the south, southwest, central, and eastern regions.

Intense rain on September 19 caused widespread flooding in Tegucigalpa, damaging pedestrian bridges, triggering landslides, cutting power in parts of the capital, and trapping at least one family in their vehicle until firefighters rescued them.