In June 2025, WFP assisted an estimated 3.6 million people across all activities. Of those assisted, 1.6 million people were in famine and risk of famine (RoF) areas in Sudan.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the abduction of a Ministry of Health (MoH) staff member from an MSF ambulance in South Sudan’s Morobo County, Central Equatoria State, at around 10:00 am on 25 July 2025.
In response to a temporary humanitarian pause to allow aid into Gaza, Save the Children warns that only a permanent and unconditional ceasefire can truly save children’s lives.
Escalating Casualties and Displacement in Gaza: Israeli military operations in Gaza led to a significant loss of civilian lives, with targeted strikes on residential areas, displacement tents, and aid distribution points resulting in numerous fatalities and injuries, including women and children.
The ongoing rainy season in South Sudan is slowing cholera response efforts in some locations, raising concerns about further transmission and undermining progress the country has made so far in combating the outbreak.
Sweida Governorate was engulfed in intense inter-communal violence, marked by significant territorial gains by Bedouin/tribal forces and retaliatory actions, despite multiple ceasefire declarations and efforts to stabilize the situation.
A ceasefire has largely held following over a week of intense clashes began around 12 July. The situation remains highly volatile, but there has been a notable reduction in active fighting while the countryside is witnessing intermittent clashes between the opposing parties.
As conflict persists across much of Sudan, pockets of relative safety have emerged and to date over a million internally displaced Sudanese have been making their way home.
Food stocks have plummeted to alarming new lows in Kadugli in Sudan’s Kordofan region, with recent attacks on markets and villages this month killing hundreds and siege-conditions reaching a tipping point, said Save the Children.
Food and water are being deliberately withheld from the entire population in Gaza, meanwhile Israeli forces keep attacking people desperate for scraps of food at distribution sites.
The fall of the former government of Syria on 8 December 2024 was a significant turning point in the country after nearly 14 years of war. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has gained access to areas under the control of the former government, where we were not authorised to work. The direct and indirect consequences of conflict are stark, with 16.5 million people in need of assistance.
The humanitarian community calls for the hyper prioritization of the Humanitarian Response Priorities to be complemented by strengthened advocacy and resource mobilization efforts for new and additional funding resources in support of the response, particularly at this critical time.
As Syria advances its recovery, revived sectarian violence, coupled with the worst drought in decades and catastrophic wildfires, are causing large displacement, deteriorating Syria’s humanitarian situation and exacerbating food insecurity.
As of 30 June 2025, UNHCR Lebanon had received just 22 per cent of its required funding, with little visibility on funding projections in the coming months.
During the reporting period, the security in Syria has deteriorated. As of mid-July 2025, As-Sweida has experienced a sharp escalation in sectarian violence; and IDF has launched several airstrikes, not only in the southern governorates, but also at the Syrian Defense Ministry and near the presidential palace in Damascus.
Between 20 and 22 July, the security situation in southern Syria remained highly volatile, marked by intensified hostilities and reported violations of the ceasefire agreement in As-Sweida Governorate and surrounding areas.
The Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) raises its deep concern about the ongoing military escalations in Sweida and condemns the grave human rights abuses being committed— including the taking of civilian hostages, extrajudicial killings, the excessive use of force, indiscriminate attacks on residential areas, and the destruction of civilian property.
