Emergency responders are working to locate several hundred workers trapped in underground tunnels. A significant number of people are confirmed dead, with many more reported missing. Relief efforts are hindered by limited access, with numerous bridges and roads destroyed.
Many households are in need of immediate assistance. Organizations are working to provide support, including preparations for a large shipment to aid patient care. Further details on the situation and relief efforts are available, including the work of organizations providing support to those affected.
Countries: World, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lebanon, Libya, occupied Palestinian territory, South Sudan, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen . Armed drones are an escalating threat in humanitarian settings, with their use expected to grow. Once rare, they are now a defining feature in ...
Countries: World, Libya . Most were Eritrean, and 12 were unaccompanied minors, including one young girl. The rescue took place within the Maltese search and rescue zone, and the survivors were brought to Trapani, Sicily, the designated place of safety by the Italian authorities ...
. This factsheet presents the key findings of the multi-stakeholder assessment (hereinafter Acted’s 2026 Assessment) conducted by Acted in collaboration with key stakeholders from Lebanon’s agricultural sector during the second quarter of 2026. It provides a rapid diagnostic of a...
Countries: World, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Togo . Across West and Central Africa, education is under increasing pressure from two converging crises: conflict and declining funding. Millions of childr...
Countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan . WHO WE ARE Across Asia, as of July 2026 some 17.6 million people are forcibly displaced or stateless 1, including more than 11.5 million from Afghanistan and Myanmar — the region’...
“I wish to be Providence myself,” proclaims the titular hero of Alexandre Dumas’s Count of Monte Cristo, “for I feel that the finest, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.” I’m reading Monte Cristo right now, and that chilling quote has been stuck...
. Project HOPE has established five mobile medical units (MMUs) in Nepal, in coordination with local partners Volunteer Corps Nepal and Partnership for Sustainable Development Nepal. Access to healthcare continues to be strained along the Trishuli River, but Project HOPE’s teams ...
. Residents are unable to leave due to the threat of violence outside the camp and are forced to live in dire and undignified conditions, deprived of the most basic and essential services. “Our houses were set on fire. The day we left, there were gunshots everywhere. People fled ...
. Press release Middle East Lebanon Published 09. Sep 2026 An exchange of attacks between Hezbollah and Israel has triggered the most violent escalation since June, with Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health reporting 27 people killed and 69 wounded between 5 and 7 September. “For ...
Fifty Hispanic Pentecostal bishops and denominational leaders, who represent more than 21,000 congregations across the United States and Latin America, gathered in Washington on Tuesday to press the Trump administration to extend the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for a...
