Since February 2025, 190,000 South Sudanese have sought refuge in countries neighboring South Sudan, including an estimated 45,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), 39,000 in Ethiopia, 75,000 in Sudan, and 30,000 in Uganda.
As temperatures drop and winter sets in, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns that the coming months could bring yet more suffering to families in Gaza already facing unimaginable hardship.
The situation in Sudan remains extremely volatile, marked by escalating violence, mass displacement, and the near-collapse of essential services. Communities fleeing El Fasher and surrounding villages are arriving in remote areas with almost no access to maternal health care, protection services, or functioning health facilities.
As of 20 November, UNHCR estimates that 1,246,037 individuals have returned to Syria from other countries since 8 December 2024. As of 13 November, 1,944,762 internally displaced persons (IDPs) are estimated to have returned to their areas of origin, of whom 1,062,229 departed from IDP sites in northwest and northeast Syria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces yet more bloodshed in Gaza, Palestine, as our teams continue to treat Palestinians who were critically wounded by Israeli airstrikes and quadcopters on 19 November, which have left dozens dead and scores more injured.
2025 has brought unprecedented challenges to Yemen. Drastic funding cuts have forced aid agencies to scale back many life-saving programmes. Seasonal floods have once again devastated communities, sweeping away people’s homes and belongings.
This report is produced by Inter-sector Coordination Group in collaboration with humanitarian partners. It covers the period from 15 October – 15 November. These reports are issued on monthly basis with the next report scheduled to be published around 15 December.
The security situation in southern Syria remains fragile and armed clashes among a range of actors continue to be reported within the governorate. The lack of substantive political and security progress threatens to undermine the ceasefire, and a risk remains of escalatory security incidents.
Medrar Foundation organized an awareness session titled “Parenting in Times of Challenges: Balancing Firmness and Emotional Support” at the Al-Masaken Al-Shaabiyya in Tyre. The session brought together local women for an engaging discussion led by Mrs. Batoul Moussa, with the participation of psychotherapist Mrs. Layla Reda Safieddine, founder of Layla Center. Participants received symbolic gifts as a gesture of appreciation.
Escalating conflict, displacement, access constraints, economic instability, climate shocks, and disease outbreaks continued to worsen the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan throughout October.
Escalating conflict has displaced nearly 100,000 people since 26 October, while famine has been officially confirmed in Al Fasher including signaling an unprecedented deterioration in food security and child malnutrition.
UNRWA has expanded by 40 per cent its provision of domestic water supply in Gaza City and the northern area, thanks to the rehabilitation of water well no. 3 in Jabalia (repaired on 5 November). The restored well now enables the Agency to provide clean water to an additional 20,000 residents, including returnees in the north.
• South Sudan is facing overlapping crises, including violence, protracted economic decline and climate shocks, which continue to fuel food insecurity and malnutrition.
Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded in the Atlantic, hit southwestern Jamaica on 28 October as a Category 5 system—the worst hurricane to hit the area since 1988—before crossing into eastern Cuba as a Category 3 the following day.
A protection catastrophe in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions is intensifying at an alarming pace as escalating violence drives thousands of families from their homes, many for the second or third time, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warns.
The fragile Gaza ceasefire announced on 9 October 2025 marked a momentous but precarious juncture in the ongoing conflict. The ceasefire remains in place but is fragile, and violations from both sides continue.
This assessment applies an integrated spatial detection and proximity modelling approach to quantify the impact of floods on critical infrastructure and community services across affected counties.
The humanitarian situation in southern Syria remains unpredictable, with insecurity, displacement, and service disruptions continuing to affect communities across As-Sweida, Dar’a, and Quneitra governorates during the reporting period.
On Monday, Nov. 10, at around 2 p.m., a drone attack occurred just outside our Hermel clinic, where men, women, children, and the elderly receive vital care. The attack, which took place only a few meters from our entrance and patient waiting areas, shattered glass at our clinic and caused panic among our patients and colleagues.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope warns that extreme insecurity and appalling human rights violations, including mass killings and ethnic and sexual violence in El Fasher, North Darfur, have triggered a dramatic surge in displacement and further worsened the humanitarian crisis.
