News Monitor
At least 58 civilians are reported to have been killed and 213 others injured in El-Fasher since fighting dramatically escalated in the North Darfur town last week.
Uganda hosts the most refugees and asylum-seekers in Africa, with almost 1.7 million people mainly from South Sudan and DRC, yet it was among UNHCR’s 13 top underfunded operations in 2023.
As of mid-March, more than 360,000 people were internally displaced, a 15% increase since December 2023. More than half are women, and children account for more than a third of the displaced.
In Trieste alone, unaccompanied children struggle to access a safe space to sleep, as they cannot enter temporary emergency dormitories without prior identification by law enforcement.
Amid some of the fiercest reported fighting in Gaza yet, UN humanitarians repeated warnings that famine is still an imminent threat because of aid restrictions and a lack of safe access.
This year was the warmest April on record – the 11th month in a row of record global temperatures. Sea surface temperatures have been at record highs for the past 13 months.
More than half of Afghanistan - 25 of 34 provinces - has been affected, with Baghlan alone suffering upwards of 200 fatalities so far. Communities were already struggling to cope before this disaster.
"We can avert a hunger catastrophe for the hardest-hit families, but time is not on our side," says WFP's Turnbull. "I'm calling on the international community to step up now and help us save lives."
At least five million people face starvation as the rainy season risks rendering transport routes inaccessible, civilians are trapped by intensified fighting, and the lean season hits.
An increase in the number of children migrating through the dangerous Darien Gap so far this year puts the route on track for a fifth consecutive year of record levels of child migration, says UNICEF.
National Societies in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, Malaysia, Philippines and more are already responding with urgent initiatives to help and relieve people through this relentless heat.
In the BAY states, some 4.8 million people are estimated to be facing severe food insecurity. Approximately 700,000 children under five are projected to be acutely malnourished over the next 6 months.
Since the beginning of hostilities, PRCS staff and volunteers have continued to courageously provide emergency medical services to communities in Gaza, amidst unacceptably high levels of loss.
We again call on the Russian Federation to immediately cease its armed attack against Ukraine - in line with the resolutions of the UNGA, the binding measures ordered by the ICJ and international law.
Conflicts in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) accounted for nearly two-thirds of new movements in 2023.
About 40 percent of the population could be facing acute hunger by the end of year because of the drought and about 14,000 people have been displaced by floods and landslides in the north.
"I can see no way that the latest evacuation orders, much less a full assault, in an area with an extremely dense presence of civilians, can be reconciled with the binding requirements of IHL."