Between 31 August and 5 September 2025, Sierra Leone experienced devastating flash floods across 17 communities in seven districts including Bonthe, Kenema, Bo, Moyamba, Kono, Falaba, and Koinadugu.
Between 17 and 27 July 2025, REACH conducted a mixed-methods assessment in Markath (Bilkey), Nukta (Dengjok), and Thokwath (Gakdong), targeting three population groups: returnees from Ethiopia and Sudan (arrived within the past 12 months), IDPs from Nasir and Ulang (arrived since March 2025), and the host community.
Families in Gaza City are facing two deadly options – stay put under increasing bombardment and siege, or follow Israeli orders to move south to camps where families are being killed in their shelters and suffer life-threatening overcrowding, starvation and diseases.
The objective is to improve livelihoods and increase resilience to climate change and agricultural productivity for vulnerable farming households in Wadi al Ayn.
This document is the result of a comprehensive and collaborative consultation process led by the Winterization Technical Working Group (TWIG) under the coordination of the Syria Shelter/NFI Sector.
As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.
Since the fall of the former government on 8 December 2024 until the end of August 2025, around 844,000 Syrian refugees have returned to the country from abroad. The overall rate of return increased over the summer months as expected.
After more than ten years of conflict, Yemen is again on the brink of humanitarian disaster, standing as the world’s third most food insecure context. As of September this year, 18.1 million people are estimated to face acute hunger (IPC Phase 3 and above).
On the afternoon of Monday, 15 September, Israeli Forces fired upon a clearly identified Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) water truck while it was distributing 10,000 litres of drinking water in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Radwan, in the eastern part of Gaza City.
MSF mourns Hussein Alnajjar, our 13th colleague killed in GazaNurse Hussein Alnajjar died from shrapnel injuries five days after an Israeli airstrike hit near his tent.
As of 17 September, widespread flooding continues to impact communities across South Sudan, affecting an estimated 379,154 people in 21 counties across five states.
South Sudan continues to face a dire humanitarian crisis fueled by the convergence of armed conflict, mass displacement, climate-related shocks, food insecurity, recurrent disease outbreaks, and economic decline factors that together have devastated millions of lives.
More than 50,600 households (approximately 354,400 people) in 19 governorates have been affected by heavy rains and flooding since 1 August. This includes 157 reported casualties, including 62 fatalities and 95 injuries.
On 15 September 2025, DTM field teams estimated that 58 households were displaced from Garagekh and Um Dayoga villages in Bara locality, North Kordofan due to heightened insecurity.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Government of Sudan, has launched the 2025 national livestock vaccination campaign to safeguard livelihoods of over three million pastoralists and agro-pastoralists across the country gripped by a major food crisis.
Famine in Gaza Governorate was declared on 22 August 2025, with over 500,000 people trapped in famine conditions, documenting 317 malnutrition-related deaths since October 2023, including 119 children, by 27 August.
