A massive increase in people fleeing to Tawila in North Darfur over the last three months is propelling the small town into a full-scale humanitarian crisis.
The Migration, Environment, and Climate Change (MECC) Country Report on Yemen by IOM explores the complex links between climate change, environmental degradation, and human mobility in Yemen.
Escalated armed clashes in Moqokori town, Hiraan region, have displaced at least 1,130 households (at least 6,780 people) to villages in the Buloburto, Jalalaqsi, and Mahas districts.
Fuel shortages in Gaza could cut off supplies of clean drinking water to about 44,000 children supported by Save the Children in a matter of days, increasing the risk of waterborne illnesses such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, with these children only a small number of those impacted by fuel running out.
Yemen remains one of the world’s most acute and complex humanitarian crises. In 2025, protracted conflict, economic decline, and extreme weather driven by climate change have left more than 19.5 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.
Massive wildfires have raged across Latakia Governorate for seven consecutive days, with Syrian authorities calling the situation “catastrophic” and “a real environmental disaster.”
Following a week-long pause on truck movements due to security and access concerns, WFP resumed truck movements into Gaza on 25 June. WFP aims to deliver 2,000 mt daily across both northern and southern Gaza.
Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan's North Darfur region, with thousands of people affected by indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence including looting, mass killings, sexual violence, abductions, and attacks against markets, health facilities and other civilian infrastructures.
Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide.
This protection brief focuses on the heightened risks older persons face as a result of ongoing hostilities in Gaza. Older people have had essential roles in Gaza— leading communities, caring for relatives, and helping sustain collective memory.
South Sudan’s changing climate is reshaping how infectious diseases like cholera spread. Rising temperatures, heavier rains, and worsening floods are placing millions at greater risk.
In 2025 alone, over 32,000 suspected cholera cases have been reported in Sudan, fuelling a total of more than 83,000 cases and 2,100 deaths since the outbreak began in July 2024, according to the Federal Ministry of Health. The disease continues to spread across the country amid conflict and collapsing infrastructure.
The food security situation across all available outcome indicators (see below) deteriorated markedly in the four governorates (Aden, Lahj, Marib, and Taizz), with IDPs in camps experiencing a disproportionate level of hardship compared to those living within host communities.
UNOCHA reports that over 9.3 million children are expected to suffer from high levels of acute malnutrition between June 2024 and May 2025 in Burundi, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
Since the start of 2025, 493 EO incidents took place across Syria resulting in 390 deaths including 108 children and the injury of 536 civilians including 205 children.
The Israeli-US food distribution scheme in Gaza, launched one month ago, is degrading Palestinians by design, forcing them to choose between starvation or risking their lives for minimal supplies. With over 500 people killed and nearly 4,000 wounded while seeking food, this scheme is slaughter masquerading as humanitarian aid and must be immediately dismantled.
Following thirteen years of conflict, water scarcity is prevalent in northeastern Syria (NES) due to climate change, heavy water abstraction from its aquifers, limited water management and damaged infrastructures.
In May 2025, WFP reached the highest number of people since the conflict began, assisting an estimated 5.1 million people across all modalities. This included reaching 1.7 million people in famine and risk of famine (RoF) areas in Sudan.
After 20 months of conflict, the protection environment for children has almost collapsed, as ongoing hostilities, repeated displacement, and limited humanitarian access continue to have a devastating impact on the safety, security, rights and well-being of children.
