News Monitor

UNHCR has scaled up its response to address the rapidly growing needs of those newly arrived. Some 60,000 refugees have received critical relief items including mattresses, blankets and personal hygiene kits.

Children are too scared to return to their homes seven days after devastating earthquakes hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, making for a very different Christmas this year, Save the Children said

Twenty months into the conflict, Sudan faces a deepening famine crisis with widespread starvation and rising acute malnutrition. The IPC has identified famine in five areas and predicts five more will face famine by May 2025.

In the absence of a change to Israeli policy on the entry of food and nutrition supplies to this area, FEWS NET expects non-trauma mortality levels will pass the Famine threshold between January and March 2025.

The documented crimes at Wharf Jérémie occur in an alarming context of violence and human rights violations in Haiti, involving criminal gangs, self-defense groups, and unorganized members of the population.

As of 1 December, Yemen had reported 249 900 suspected cases of cholera, with 861 associated deaths. This accounts for 35% of the global cholera burden and 18% of global reported mortality.

More than 13,600 people, including children, are suspected or confirmed to have died from dengue, cholera, and mpox this year. These resurgences were fuelled partly by climate crises and conflict.

Almost three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, international actors still monopolize humanitarian response funding, leadership, and policy influence.

In a joint report released today, ActionAid and Oxfam reveal that so-called evacuation orders between 23 September and 31 October may amount to a campaign of forcible transfer— a grave breach of IHL.

Damage to shelters is severe, with 39,133 houses destroyed and 13,343 damaged, leaving many families without shelter or necessities and exposing them to further risks.

Damage to shelters is severe, with 39,133 houses destroyed and 13,343 damaged, leaving many families without shelter or necessities and exposing them to further risks.

Damage to shelters is severe, with 39,133 houses destroyed and 13,343 damaged, leaving many families without shelter or necessities and exposing them to further risks.

Despite a slight decline in acute food insecurity due to improved security and above-average rainfall in parts of the Sahel, food insecurity is worsening, driven by conflict, displacement, economic instability, and severe climate shocks.

Since December, fighting near the border has caused a drastic surge in arrivals from Sudan. Since April 2023, over 900,000 people have fled to South Sudan, which now hosts 506,000 refugees, with 150,000 more expected in 2025.

To control the outbreak and protect vulnerable lives, MSF launched a vaccination campaign that reached 9,634 children, primarily vaccinating children aged 6-59 months who are most at risk of complications.

Just two weeks after a ceasefire brought a halt to the conflict, MAG, with the Lebanon Mine Action Centre, deployed teams to assess the scale of contamination and identify its impact on communities.

In 2023, 66.1 million people, approximately 14 percent of the population in the Arab region, faced hunger. The report highlights that access to adequate food remains elusive for millions.