World: Updated Return on Investment for Preparedness to Respond Study - March 2026. This report presents updated findings from WFP’s Return on Investment (ROI) for Preparedness study, demonstrating the value of pre-shock investments in strengthening emergency response. In a context of increasingly complex, protracted and resource-constrained crises, preparedness is identified as ReliefWebJun 17disaster
World: Updated Return on Investment for Preparedness to Respond Study. This report presents updated findings from WFP’s Return on Investment (ROI) for Preparedness study, demonstrating the value of pre-shock investments in strengthening emergency response. In a context of increasingly complex, protracted and resource-constrained crises, preparedness is identified as ReliefWebJun 17disaster
Sudan: Déclaration : L’IFRC profondément choquée par l’assassinat d’un volontaire du Croissant-Rouge soudanais dans l’État du Nord-Kordofan. Ahmed Yaqoub Othman a été tué alors qu’il prodiguait les premiers secours à des personnes blessées à la suite d’attaques survenues plus tôt. Il était volontaire au sein de la branche du Nord-Kordofan de la Société du Croissant-Rouge soudanais. Il servait sa communauté et soutenait les activités huReliefWebJun 17disaster
Sudan: Hunger Hotspots FAO-WFP Early Warnings on Acute Food Insecurity - June to November 2026 outlookCountries: Sudan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen . New FAO-WFP report warns worsening hunger puts 13 hotspots at significant risk | World Food Programme Sudan, South Sudan,ReliefWebJun 17disaster
Sudan: New FAO-WFP report warns worsening hunger puts 13 hotspots at significant risk | World Food ProgrammeCountries: Sudan, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Nigeria, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen . The latest edition of the Hunger Hotspots report, released twice a year through the Global Network Against Food Crises (GReliefWebJun 17disaster
WFP Iran Country Brief, June 2026 (Reporting period: May 2026). IN NUMBERS 35,826 people assisted in May (51% female) 383 mt food distributed in May USD 195,778 cash transferred in May USD 19.2 required in the next six months (June - November2026) KEY HIGHLIGHTS Despite the escalation in the region, WFP remains steadfast in its commitment to the people it servReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #9 - Special Edition - Emergency Response (March - May 2026). This special edition focuses on the SRH response to intensified hostilities and mass displacement in Lebanon from March to May 2026. It presents the emergency context as of June 2026, including affected populations, women of reproductive age, pregnant women, expected institutional deliveries, healReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #7 - Q3 2025. This issue covers RHSWG achievements and SRH priorities from July to September 2025. It highlights the development and piloting of a prioritization tool for hospitalization support for high-risk pregnancies, intended to standardize how health partners identify and support the most vulnerable womenReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #6 - Q2 2025. This Q2 2025 newsletter focuses on SRH needs and coordination priorities from April to June 2025, with particular emphasis on maternal and neonatal secondary healthcare. It highlights RHSWG advocacy following UNHCR’s announcement that it would phase out referral care support by the end of NovemberReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #5 - Q1 2025. This issue reviews RHSWG priorities and SRH developments from January to March 2025. It focuses on strengthening maternal care monitoring through the national PHENICS health information system, including survey findings on hospital use of PHENICS for referrals, patient data, reimbursement, and intReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #4 - Q4 2024. This Q4 2024 newsletter highlights SRH needs, achievements, and challenges from October to December 2024, during a period marked by major conflict escalation and displacement. It presents RHSWG efforts to strengthen emergency response coordination, including the development of a hospital delivery ReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #2 - Q2 2024. This issue covers RHSWG coordination priorities and SRH developments from March to June 2024. It highlights updates to SRH service mapping, a mapping exercise on hospital delivery coverage modalities, and important changes to hospitalization tariffs by the Ministry of Public Health and the NationaReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter Issue #1 - Q1 2024. This first quarterly newsletter of the Reproductive Health Sub-Working Group (RHSWG) in Lebanon highlights priority sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs, coordination updates, and partner interventions from January to March 2024. It presents key RHSWG achievements, including updated SRH servReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: RHSWG Newsletter - Special Edition - Emergency Response (Sep - Nov 2024). This special edition focuses on the SRH response to the large-scale displacement caused by intensified hostilities in Lebanon between September and November 2024. It provides an overview of the emergency context, including displacement figures, collective shelter needs, and the number of women andReliefWebJun 17disaster
Honduras: Cedeño won’t disappear, it will relocate and persevere. Climate displacement from the Honduran Pacific coast. The report reveals that in this area, which was impacted just days ago by Tropical Storm Cristina, the coastline has retreated by around 135 metres between 2004 and 2026, equivalent to 6.13 metres per year. This loss of territory is directly afReliefWebJun 17disaster
DR Congo: The race against Ebola. Chanumula has seen some hopeful signs in communities that once resisted safe and dignified burials. Where there was once skepticism, she sees more people approaching volunteers and asking questions about how to protect themselves. “This in the same places where people were blocking volunteers fromReliefWebJun 17disaster
Tanzania: MSF concludes more than 10 years of medical support in Nduta refugee campCountries: United Republic of Tanzania, Burundi . We launched activities in 2015 after thousands of people arrived from Burundi, and have since provided lifesaving care to both refugees and surrounding host communities. “For more than a decade, we have committed to provide medical and humanitarian sReliefWebJun 17disaster
World: Regional Bureau for Eastern and Southern Africa (RBESA) - Gender Equality Annual Report - 2025. 1.BACKGROUND UNHCR made significant strides in advancing gender equality by aligning its organizational priorities with the UN Gender Equality Acceleration Plan (GEAP)1 and UN-SWAP 3.02 . The UN System-wide GEAP recorded notable progress since its launch in 2024 3 , including the introduction of tReliefWebJun 17disaster
REACH Afghanistan Quarterly Food Security Monitoring (QFSM), Methodology Note (June 2026). In addition to the NMF, the QFSM will help to delve deeper into the food security pillar of the NMF, in collaboration with WFP. The motivation behind this is to be able to provide more detailed sectoral information to meet individual cluster needs. QFSM analysis and findings support WFP’s early waReliefWebJun 17disaster
Lebanon: Flash Update #35 - Escalation of hostilities in Lebanon (as of 15 June 2026). HIGHLIGHTS United States-Iran deal announced on 15 June; while hostilities in Lebanon have reduced in number subsequently, returns remain limited and cautious. Hostilities continued with airstrikes and seven renewed displacement orders covering 37 localities across the South and Nabatieh GovernoraReliefWebJun 17disaster
Dads, ‘Provoke Not Your Children to Wrath’—Even the Fussy Toddler“Nice win! All right, we’re done for the night,” I said to my 6-year-old son. “Time to put the cards away.” “Ugh, I wanted to play another game!” he said, pouting. “Sorry bud, it’s already a little past bedtime. We need to get you to sleep.” Out burst an emphatic “no!” accompanied by angry crocodileChristianity TodayJun 17missions
Five Points in My Pain: How God’s Sovereignty Comforts MeWhen I used to travel extensively, I always packed my Bible reading plan. That way, even if I were thousands of miles from home, my husband, Ken, and I would be in sync on our daily readings. More than twenty years later, I can no longer travel, but Ken and I still make our annual journey from GenesDesiring GodJun 17missions
You Need the Spirit to ReadWhy do some hear Scripture and dismiss it as nonsense? John Piper shows from 1 Corinthians 2:14–16 that the natural heart cannot discern the worth of spiritual truth.Watch NowDesiring GodJun 17missions
World: Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law - Issue No 2/2026. Disclaimer The decisions and judgments presented in this edition of the “EUAA Quarterly Overview of Asylum Case Law, Issue No 2/2026” were pronounced from March to May 2026. The summaries cover the main elements of the court’s decision. The full judgment is the only authoritative, original and accReliefWebJun 17disaster
WFP Armenia Country Brief, June 2026 (Reporting period: May 2026). KEY HIGHLIGHTS USD 3.4 M required in the next six months (June – November 2026) Armenia hosted a high-level event on “Sustainable School Meal Programmes in Global and Regional Contexts,” bringing together government delegations, international partners, and experts to exchange experiences through wReliefWebJun 17disaster
Sudan Situation: UNHCR Monthly External Update #118 - April 2026Countries: Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, South Sudan, Uganda . Highlights ▪ Sudan: The security environment in Sudan remains marked by sustained drone strikes and armed clashes across Khartoum, Darfur, White Nile, Kordofan, and Blue Nile States. In South Darfur, inteReliefWebJun 17disaster
Iran: Inter-Agency Refugee Protection Overview for the Middle East SituationCountries: Iran (Islamic Republic of), Afghanistan, Armenia, Iraq, Lebanon, occupied Palestinian territory, Pakistan, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkmenistan . The Inter-Agency Refugee Protection Overview for the Middle East Situation provides a cross-regional analysis of emerging protection risks and trReliefWebJun 17disaster
World: Qatar Charity Expands Global Efforts to Support Refugees [EN/AR]. Qatar Charity (QC) continues to prioritize raising awareness of refugee issues and mobilizing support through integrated humanitarian campaigns, field interventions, and international partnerships, with the aim of meeting basic needs and helping refugees restore stability and live with dignity. ThReliefWebJun 17disaster
Community-based Participatory Planning (CBPP) in Grand’Anse, Haiti - June 2026. This report presents the findings of a Community-based Participatory Planning (CBPP) exercise conducted in January 2026 in the communes (municipalities) of Corail and Pestel, located in the Grand’Anse Department of Haiti. The participatory process engaged 197 participants (65 women and 132 men) frReliefWebJun 17disaster
WHO and partners expand access to lifesaving health services in Pengani, a remote village in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan Province. A pregnant woman who had been attending regular antenatal care at the Centre had gone into labour early in the morning. In a remote and mountainous area like Pengani, timely care can make all the difference. “I recognized her voice immediately,” Sohaila said. “She had trusted the Health Centre thrReliefWebJun 17disaster
World: WHO supports countries to strengthen emergency medical teams amid rising health emergencies across the Eastern Mediterranean Region. EMTs are groups of health professionals, including doctors, nurses and paramedics, deployed to provide immediate medical care in emergencies. The workshop focused on enhancing the integration of EMTs within national health care and preparedness systems, bringing together 30 participants from the hReliefWebJun 17disaster
Statement by UNICEF Country Representative in Lebanon, Marcoluigi Corsi, on the ongoing suffering of children in Lebanon over 100 days into conflict. BEIRUT, 17 June 2026- “For more than three months, children in Lebanon have lived through experiences no child should ever endure. Many have fled their homes multiple times, witnessed violence first-hand, lost loved ones, and seen their schools, communities, and sense of safety shattered. “After oReliefWebJun 17disaster
Decentralized testing speeds up Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rolled out soon after the declaration of the Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak, the machines have drastically reduced testing times, enabling faster, life-saving action to stop the spread of the virus. Before health authorities could declare the outbreak on 15 May 2026, samples were transported toReliefWebJun 17disaster
Uganda: Regional cooperation and vigilance will control the Ebola outbreak. Dr Tedros visited Uganda on 8 and 9 June 2026 as part of regional missions focused on the Ebola outbreak response that started in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with spillover into Uganda. During his visit, he met with the Ugandan Head of State, His Excellency Yoweri Museveni, health officiReliefWebJun 17disaster
DR Congo: Ebola Outbreak in DRC and Uganda: Situation Report #4 (June 16, 2026)Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . Key Updates • The current Ebola outbreak is the third largest in human history, and the full scope of the spread cannot currently be captured due to conflict, gaps in surveillance, and limited access to testing. • Contact tracing is currently belReliefWebJun 17disaster
Occupied Palestinian Territory Emergency Response Activity Update #56 1 – 30 May 2026.ReliefWebJun 17disaster
WFP welcomes announcement of major U.S. contribution as global hunger reaches record levels | World Food ProgrammeCountries: World, United States of America .S. State Department. This critical funding will support WFP’s life-saving food and nutrition operations to reach more than 38 million of the most vulnerable across at least 37 countries. This generous contribution builds on the already significant US contrReliefWebJun 17disaster
DR Congo: Women and girls face double threat in the Ebola outbreak; the response must address both | The IRCCountries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is warning that without protection measures in place now, the most vulnerable will pay the highest price and the response itself is likely to fail. Traditionally, women and girls are often the primary careReliefWebJun 17disaster
Afghanistan: A journey to safer motherhood post-earthquake in Kunar. Now six months pregnant with her sixth child, she attends regular antenatal care visits provided by a Mobile Health Team (MHT) serving her community. Zarmina, 36, lives in an area where many families lost homes and livelihoods due to the strong earthquake in Kunar last year. Already with five chilReliefWebJun 17disaster