News Monitor
More than 3,200 civilian casualties were recorded in Ukraine between June and August this year – a 33.7 per cent increase compared with the same period last year.
Uganda has received more than 100,000 asylum seekers since January 2024. Sudanese refugees now make up the largest proportion of the new arrivals, accounting for 36% of the total number.
Honduras: Increased number of Hondurans forced to move and seek refuge outside the country’s borders
Maras, gangs and organised crime are a permanent threat to a large part of the population and are a real obstacle for leading a normal life and even moving freely through the territory.
FAO is urgently seeking donor support for its plan and requires $318 million to provide critical support to 10.5 million people across 39 high-risk countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The funding will help humanitarian partners provide immediate aid and respond to the most urgent needs concerning food, shelter, access to clean water and sanitation in the hardest-hit areas.
The latest surge of storms has impacted countless people, pushing vulnerable communities into desperation. WFP is combining rapid assistance with longer-term development support.
Following devastating floods in September, dozens of children are showing up in camps separated from their families, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
The appeal aims to reach children affected by the outbreak in Burundi, CAR, DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda, where the clade 1 variant is on the rise and where thousands of children are at risk.
WFP will provide a one-month ration of emergency food, including rice, fortified biscuits, and nutrition products to up to half a million flood-affected people, ensuring immediate food needs are met.
In Viet Nam, Myanmar, Laos and Thailand, children's access to clean water, education, healthcare, food, and shelter has been compromised — pushing already marginalized communities deeper into crisis.
The worrying spike in humanitarian needs comes amid a regional hunger crisis already affecting 55 million people – four times more people than five years ago.
Heavy rains have ravaged 30 of 36 states. According to the government, more than a million people have been affected, 269 lives tragically lost, and more than 640,000 have been displaced from their homes.
More than 80 per cent of required food aid does not make it into Gaza. Fifteen aid organizations demand international pressure for an immediate ceasefire and arms embargo.
oPt: Five Palestinian children killed or injured on average every day in the West Bank since October
The number of children killed or injured by Israeli forces and settlers has more than doubled. There are concerns of further casualties with a significant escalation of violence in the past six weeks.
In Aboutengue nearly 44,500 Sudanese refugees, the majority of whom are women and children, are facing severe cuts to food rations and poor living conditions due to a lack of adequate shelter.
Local actors and humanitarian organisations across the region are working around the clock to provide temporary relief despite increasingly stretched resources.
At least 273 people are reported dead, 78 missing and 100,000 evacuated. The number of casualties is likely to rise as first responders continue to reach hard-to-access mountainous areas.
The extended streak of extraordinarily high temperatures has continued, and the year so far has been the warmest on record for the globe, with Africa, Europe and South America each ranking first.
Floods have struck vulnerable communities already facing challenges due to climate change, pockets of drought, locust invasions, and the highly volatile security context since 2014.
Economic crisis worsens in occupied Palestinian territory amid ongoing Gaza conflict - UNCTAD report
The new report highlights the staggering scale of economic devastation and unprecedented decline in economic activity, far surpassing the impact of all previous military confrontations in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2021.
MSF urges the UN and international stakeholders involved in negotiating broader humanitarian access to consider all options to deliver food and essential supplies in the area, including by airdrops.
MSF urges the UN and international stakeholders involved in negotiating broader humanitarian access to consider all options to deliver food and essential supplies in the area, including by airdrops.
The prequalification approval is expected to facilitate timely and increased access to this vital product in communities with urgent need, to reduce transmission and help contain the outbreak.
“According to reports, five airstrikes in Shan State, Chin State and Magway Region in 5-6 September killed 24 civilians, including at least 10 children and injuring at least eight children
Populations in Mali, Niger and Nigeria are now dealing with the worst floods in 30 years, which will exacerbate food insecurity with the destruction of farmland and significant crop losses.