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.”
Despite the official pronouncement of a ceasefire, election of a president and formation of a reform-oriented government, the socio-economic situation in Lebanon remained fragile, and the country continued to face serious challenges, compounded by intermitted armed escalations and displacement in Q1 2025.
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.
Amidst the ongoing cholera outbreak in South Sudan, the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed gratitude for the critical support provided by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) and WHO’s Standby Partners (SBPs).
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.
Nearly 1,000 people have been killed so far this year in Sudan while seeking health care or visiting loved ones in hospital, with attacks on hospitals nearly tripling after two years of conflict [1] and exacerbating a cholera outbreak, Save the Children said.
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.
More than 40,000 people in the northern West Bank remain forcibly displaced, cut off from their homes and left with very limited access to basic services and healthcare five months after the launch of the Israeli military operation ‘Iron Wall’.
The intensification of hostilities comes as Gaza’s already-decimated healthcare system struggles to absorb a relentless surge in critical cases. Nearly all public hospitals in Gaza are shut down or gutted by months of hostilities and restrictions on the entry of critical medicine, supplies and equipment.
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.
The Health sector in Lebanon operates under the leadership of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH). Complementing this leadership from the UN and NGO sides, the sector is co-led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Refugees Agency (UNHCR), with coordination efforts facilitated by WHO, UNHCR, and Amel Association.
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.
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.
Six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria, survivors of its brutal detention system, including the infamous Saydnaya military prison, are grappling with devastating physical and mental health consequences amid a critical lack of support, said Amnesty International.
