In 2025, the MENA region faced overlapping crises including conflict, displacement, economic collapse, disease outbreaks, and climate shocks, placing children at risk and disrupting access to services.
As Israel escalates its extermination campaign in Gaza, Israeli military attacks in Gaza City continue to resultin mass killings and displacement of Palestinians. Famine now affects hundreds of thousands of people as a result of Israel’s starvation policy and systematic denial of lifesaving aid.
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.
