News Monitor
This marks an increase of 20% - equivalent to half a million refugees - compared with 2024, driven by the prolongation of mass displacement situations, new conflicts and the impacts of climate change.
"We need to ... shift from responding to crises after they occur to more proactive approaches, prevention and resilience building to help vulnerable communities cope with upcoming shocks" - FAO chief.
More than 30 million people across southern Africa have been affected by a severe drought. Millions could be pushed into acute hunger unless support is urgently mobilized, warned the UN and partners.
"I am deeply shocked by Sunday’s forced eviction of about 6,000 IDPs," said NRC's Turner, urging authorities to immediately halt evictions until longer-term solutions for relocation are identified.
After more than two months of blockages due to violent clashes between armed groups, WFP has made important progress, delivering truckloads of food to the highly vulnerable neighbourhood.
“Thousands of families now shelter in damaged and destroyed facilities in Khan Younis, where UNRWA keeps providing essential services, despite increasing challenges. Conditions are unspeakable.”
“We have a cohort of more than 600 patients co-infected with tuberculosis and HIV, and many of them tell us that they can no longer follow the treatment properly because of the lack of food,” - MSF team leader.
The NRC's annual list of neglected displacement crises is based on the lack of humanitarian funding, media attention, and international political and diplomatic initiatives.
Analysis shows more than 33 million children and 39 million adults live in both the “crisis” phase 3 of hunger and in the 18 countries where extreme weather events were the drivers of food insecurity.
The IFRC launched a CHF 12.5 million Emergency Appeal that aims to assist 650,000 people in the 8 hardest-hit districts with clean water, food, medical aid and cash assistance.
The latest estimates show that more than half a million children in Haiti are living in neighbourhoods controlled by armed groups, which puts them at higher risk of violence, and child recruitment.
The rains, which followed years of drought, have displaced more than 420,000 people and killed at least 330 after unusually heavy flooding in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
In 2023, faced with a funding crisis, WFP had to cut its food assistance from the full entitlement at the time of US$12 to US$8, leaving the Rohingya with just 25 cents to meet their daily food needs.
The devastating impacts of Cyclone Remal have further reduced the ability of communities to cope with climate shocks and stresses. Slow onset crises are also affecting children’s lives.
Around 1.26 million people (23 percent of the analysed population) are expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above) between April and September 2024, according to IPC.
Tigray region in the north hosts the highest number of IDPs primarily due to conflict, while the Somali region in the east hosts the highest number of those internally displaced by drought.
Child malnutrition in Sudan is at emergency levels. In Central Darfur, acute malnutrition is estimated to be at 15.6 percent among children under five, while in ZamZam camp it is close to 30%.