News Monitor
A staggering 15 million people are expected to face hunger in 2025, up from 13.3 million last year, with the World Food Programme warning the situation is set to worsen.
Essential civilian infrastructure, such as healthcare facilities, schools and markets, are also attacked or under threat. All must be protected, as well as aid workers, in accordance with IHL.
Twenty-three international groups operating in eastern Chad warn that the majority of those refugees and returnees do not have access to the protection and education assistance they direly need.
Attacks on power plants, water stations and dams in Northern State, River Nile, Sennar, White Nile and Gedaref have caused extensive damage and endangered teams operating and maintaining facilities.
Large parts of Goma have been without water and electricity since Friday, and parents have no food or clean water for their children. People are trying to flee but with nowhere to go.
Since September, more than 500,000 refugees have returned; in addition, nearly 600,000 people who were displaced inside Syria have since returned home but 7.4 million are still uprooted in-country.
Since September, more than 500,000 refugees have returned; in addition, nearly 600,000 people who were displaced inside Syria have since returned home but 7.4 million are still uprooted in-country.
The number of people displaced has surged to more than 400,000 this year alone, almost double the number reported just last week. Since our last update on 17 January, bombs have fallen on IDP sites.
The United Nations estimates that 3.6 million people need life-saving assistance in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states. These needs are "driven by conflict, climate shocks, and economic instability".
At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts.
Tom Fletcher pointed to the United Nations Childrenâs Fund finding that one million children need mental health and psychosocial support for depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
For the first time in more than a year, food aid has arrived in a conflict-hit city, Wad Madani. It offers hope but progress is fragile in stopping hunger's spread in isolated and conflict-torn areas.
IOM, in coordination with partners, has dispatched its first convoy trucks carrying shelter material, and WASH supplies from Amman into the Gaza Strip as the ceasefire enters its fifth day.
Thousands of children now learning online, out of school entirely, or in underground classrooms as nearly three years of learning losses continue to mount, Save the Children said.