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.
Over a month into the ceasefire, WFP delivered more than 30,000 mt of food in Gaza and rapidly scaled up operations. However, during the reporting period, shortages of some commodities due to access constraints, including de-prioritization of humanitarian cargo at crossings, customs clearance delays, corridor suspensions, and the continued lack of access to northern crossings, led to temporary suspensions at several distribution sites, resulting in roughly 20 percent reduction in volumes.
• South Sudan is facing overlapping crises, including violence, protracted economic decline and climate shocks, which continue to fuel food insecurity and malnutrition.
Syria stands at a pivotal juncture offering new opportunities but facing enduring challenges. While normalization and sanctions relief are underway, more than a decade of conflict has left public systems deeply weakened, demanding sustained international engagement to rebuild institutional and human capacity.
IOM Yemen DTM’s Rapid Displacement Tracking (RDT) tool collects data on estimated numbers of households forced to flee on a daily basis from their locations of origin or displacement, allowing for regular reporting of new displacements in terms of estimated numbers, geography, and needs.
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.
In light of the ongoing “Humanitarian Reset” initiated in 2025, the AAP system initiated in northern Syria in 2024 offers a timely model to localize response efforts, reduce duplication and promote collective accountability.
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.
Following an appeal by 49 rights groups, a cross-regional group of states requested an urgent United Nations Human Rights Council session on atrocities in North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, in Sudan.
South Sudan is currently facing a severe humanitarian crisis characterised by extensive internal displacement. The underlying causes of these displacement dynamics are varied and include communal clashes, land disputes, insecurity, violence, disasters, and cross-border movements.
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.
Supported business-to-business linkages with 40 cooperatives through 15 promotional campaigns; and established a brand and two farmers’ markets, run by the Palestinian Agricultural Cooperatives Union (PACU), where the cooperatives can sell their items directly to West Bank consumers.
A new climate resilience schools programme launched in South Sudan will help more than 200,000 school children to get an education as the country battles repeated floods, droughts and heatwaves, Save the Children said.
Following the rapid power shift in Damascus on 8 December 2024, the Syrian Arab Republic (hereinafter referred to as Syria) is undergoing a pivotal transformation, reshaping its humanitarian, political, demographic, and recovery landscape.
Displacement from Al Fasher city and its surroundings continues, with a total of 89,0002 people displaced to date. Between 5 to 8 November 2025 alone, an estimated 7,000 people fled from Al Fasher city to locations including Tawila, Melit, and Saraf Omra in North Darfur.
As of 6 November, 1,208,802 Syrian individuals have crossed back to Syria from other countries since 8 December 2024. Most returnees are coming from Türkiye, followed by Lebanon and Jordan, with smaller numbers from Iraq, Egypt and beyond the region.
