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World: Global Weather Hazards Summary, August 27, 2026 - September 2, 2026
. Global Overview: El Niño is strengthening. Abnormal heat continues to threaten many parts of northern and eastern Africa, Central Asia, Hispaniola, Central America, and northern South America. Dryness is worsening in Central America, Hispaniola and Venezuela. Africa Weather Haz...
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Guinea-Bissau: West and Central Africa: Latest Events at a glance (18–24 August 2026)
Countries: Guinea-Bissau, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal,...
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DR Congo: West and Central Africa: Latest Events at a glance (18–24 August 2026)
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal,...
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Somalia: How vaccine access is protecting children in Somaliland
. Now, improved vaccine storage at a community health facility is bringing lifesaving immunizations closer to home, strengthening local healthcare, and helping communities respond when outbreaks occur. For years, every time one of her children needed a vaccination, Fatima faced a...
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Reaction: Nepal flash floods
. Of the three districts currently impacted, Oxfam has an ongoing operational footprint in Dhading and an established mandate to work in Nuwakot and Rasuwa. Oxfam is in contact with partners and other humanitarian organisations to support the emerging needs assessment and underst...
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Nepal: IFRC releases emergency funds as flash floods leave communities isolated
. The funding, provided through the IFRC’s Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF), will help the Nepal Red Cross respond to urgent needs while teams assess the scale of the destruction and identify communities requiring assistance. A glacial lake outburst flood originating from ...
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Dolly Parton Didn’t Need You to Love Her (and That’s Why Most of Us Did)
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes, when telling someone how to get to my house, I will say, “I’m just down the road from Dolly Parton.” For almost everybody in Nashville, that is almost a better locator than a pin on a GPS map. And ...
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CARE Nepal stands ready to support communities after flash flood
. CARE Nepal’s Country Director, Mona Sherpa, says: “On 26 August 2026, a sudden flash flood swept down the Bhote Koshi River from the Tibetan side into Rasuwa district, sweeping through Timure and Syabrubesi before moving downstream into the Trishuli River and triggering high al...
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CARE Indonesia distributes 15,000 litres of clean water for earthquake survivors
. The distribution began on 24 August and is planned for 60 days, with the target of delivering up to 900,000 litres of clean water to evacuation centres. It is expected to meet the basic water needs of around 1,000 people a day. Alongside the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), and with...
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Ukraine war situation update | 8 – 14 August 2026
Countries: Ukraine, Russian Federation . Russia refuses Ukraine’s proposal for a ceasefire in the Black Sea amid a surge in food prices. 1,933 conflict events 2% decrease compared to last week 227 incidents of violence targeting civilians 7% decrease compared to last week At leas...
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Central African Republic: Situation Report No. 82, as of 2025 August 2026
. HIGHLIGHTS Insecurity is jeopardizing the delivery of humanitarian assistance in Vakaga Prefecture. CERF has allocated US$3 million to support Ebola prevention efforts. More than 800 households receive food assistance in Ouham-Fafa Prefecture GENERAL CONTEXT Vakaga Prefecture -...
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Climate Change, Displacement and Social Cohesion: Understanding relationships between IDPs and Host Communities in Cabo Delgado and Manica, Mozambique
. Rising internal displacement, driven by the combined pressures of armed conflict and climate change, is reshaping community dynamics in vulnerable regions. Climate-related hazards – from sudden events like floods and cyclones to slow-onset processes such as drought and desertif...
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Nepal: Rasuwa Bhotekoshi Flood Disaster Situation Report - 26 August 2026
. A sudden, major flood originating from the Tibet side on the Bhotekoshi River in Rasuwa district has caused catastrophic damage across Rasuwa, Nuwakot, Dhading, and Chitwan districts, with floodwater travelling via the Trishuli River as far as Mugling before beginning to recede...
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Somalia: El Niño to supercharge East Africa flooding - 3 million displaced by end of year in worst-case scenario
Countries: Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Uganda . The report, El Niño Through a Displacement Lens: Mobility Outlook in East Africa, outlines three scenarios – ranging from the least to the most severe – and potential displacements in Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, and Uganda, caused...
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Bangladesh: The tenth year cannot be another year of waiting
. Safety, dignity, and the possibility of a future cannot be postponed until conditions for return exist. On 25 August 2026, Rohingya refugees will enter their tenth year of displacement following the mass exodus in 2017. For nine years, Bangladesh, humanitarian organisations, an...
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Ukraine: Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Quarterly Protection Monitoring Report - April - June 2026 [EN/UK]
. Key Findings: During April–June 2026, protection monitoring indicates that the protection environment across the monitored areas continued to deteriorate as intensified hostilities, expanding First Person View (FPV) drone attacks and prolonged displacement compounded existing v...
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Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees face deepening triple crisis after almost a decade of displacement
Countries: Bangladesh, Myanmar .2 million Rohingya refugees remain in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, facing a triple crisis of shrinking aid, no safe path home, and a generation growing up with little hope for the future. As the Rohingya displacement crisis enters its tenth yea...
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Niger: UN recognition spotlights WFP-led partnership restoring land and strengthening food security in the Sahel
Countries: Niger, Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania . Since 2018, the WFP-led initiative has worked with national governments, local communities and partners to improve livelihoods and food production for more than four million people, while rehabilitating more than 335,000 he...
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Nepal: Flash Flood in Rasuwa and Nuwakot Leaves 18 Missing and Approximately 60 Houses Swept Away
. Overview : A major flash flood originating from the Tibetan side of the Nepal - China border entered Nepal through the Bhote Koshi River at approximately 9:00 AM on 26 August 2026, causing extensive damage in Rasuwa and Nuwakot District s and prompting emergency response measur...
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Quarterly report on the Human Rights Situation in Haiti, April - June 2026
. 1,408 people were killed and 656 injured: 55% by gangs, 5% by self-defense groups and members of the population, and 40% during security forces’ operations against gangs. Expansion of gang attacks in the Artibonite department and incursions by the Village de Dieu gang into the ...
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Republic of Korea and WFP launch second phase of initiative to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Syria
. REACH Phase II expands the partnership’s focus to address both severe food insecurity and rising acute malnutrition, building on the achievements of REACH Phase I, which enabled WFP to provide cash-based food assistance to nearly 95,000 people in 2025. WFP monitoring showed imp...
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oPt: WFP Palestine Food Security Analysis - Gaza Market Monitor - August 2026
. Key findings - Gaza Strip The start of the month of August brought no major changes in the prices of main food commodities in the Gazan markets, with some slight increases in the prices of key vegetables like (tomatoes, potatoes, onions) due to the increased demand and not enou...
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Strengthening Yemen's first line of defense: investing in outbreak detection
. Every outbreak begins with a signal, an unexpected health event that can quickly escalate into a public health emergency if it is not detected and investigated in time. Across Yemen, surveillance officers are often the first to identify these warning signs. Working in districts...
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Somalia launches its first unified national registry of health facilities
. The launch event brought together representatives from the Federal Ministry of Health, Federal Member States, health partners and the World Health Organization (WHO). “The Master Health Facility List is a major milestone for Somalia’s health sector, providing trusted data to st...
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Türkiye: Türki̇ye Key Achievements January – June 2026
Countries: Türkiye, Syrian Arab Republic .
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Türki̇ye operational updates July 2026: Six NGO partners joined UNHCR in supporting vulnerable refugees in Türkiye
Countries: Türkiye, Syrian Arab Republic . Highlights In 2026, through partnership agreements with UNHCR, six NGO partners in Türkiye delivered wide-range of protection assistance for refugees and asylum-seekers. Throughout the year, with UNHCR’s financial and technical support, ...
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Update on the Human Rights Situation in Yemen and the Need to Secure the Release of Arbitrarily Detained Humanitarian Workers
.3 million people in need of humanitarian assistance. The conflict has recently escalated between Houthi forces on one side and Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni governments on the other. This escalation is aggravated by the regional conflict between the US, Israel, and Iran, which has...
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World: FAO at COP17: Pastoralists are essential partners in rangeland restoration
. Some 60 percent of the 1.66 billion hectares of land degraded by unsustainable land use and management are agricultural land, including cropland and pastureland. Reversing just 10 percent of that degradation could feed an additional 154 million people each year, according to FA...
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Malawi: Tradition and Health Unite to Protect Children from Polio in Chikwawa
. While these cultural gatherings are an important part of community life, they also presented a challenge for health workers determined to ensure every eligible child received the polio vaccine. For Yohane Botha, an initiation leader from Ntsapa in Group Village Bendana, the sol...
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World: African countries commit to train and retain 3 million more health workers by 2035
. Adopted by Ministers of Health during the Seventy-sixth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa, the Agenda marks a decisive shift from simply training more health workers to strengthening health labour markets through better planning, education, employment and retenti...
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Côte d'Ivoire: Rimini Meeting: Save the Children and Ferrero to showcase significant progress in improving life and education for children in cocoa-growing communities through a holistic approach in Côte d’Ivoire.
. The incidence of child labour in cocoa supply chain represents a systemic challenge. In rural areas, child labour is linked to a range of interconnected factors, including poverty, economic vulnerability, limited access to education and essential services, low awareness of chil...
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Sudan: Minimum Standards Document for Group Cash Transfers [EN/AR]
. Minimum Standards for GCTs GCTs are a mode of assistance that seek to transfer power to crisis-affected populations, by providing unrestricted cash transfers to community groups to implement initiatives that enable them to increase community capacity to respond to or prepare fo...
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What If School Could Serve Your Joy in Jesus?
Growing up, August was a month for lamentation. It signaled the rapid approach of the school year and the end to summer’s leisurely days of wonder and adventure. The start of school, C.S. Lewis once quipped, teaches one to live by faith, “for at the beginning of each term, home a...
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Grace Reigns Through Christ
How does grace answer Adam’s curse? John Piper shows from Romans 5:12–21 how Christ’s obedience gives life.Watch Now
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Why America Doesn’t Have Insane Asylums Anymore
In 1887, Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World published one of my favorite series in the history of journalism. It sported these headlines: “Inside the Madhouse.” “Feigning Insanity in Order to Reveal Asylum Horrors. The Trying Ordeal of the New York World's Girl Correspondent.” The ...
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The False Dichotomy Between Protest and Prayer
The writer of Proverbs tells us “faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (27:6, KJV). What a friend evangelicals have in Charlie Dates. Dates, the senior pastor of Salem and Progressive Baptist Churches in Chicago, is among the most gifted p...
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Listening to Readers, Episode 4
Earlier this summer, CT started running an occasional feature on reader responses. Here’s a new installment. Body Surveillance Shames What God Calls Good I am reminded of 1 Samuel 16:7, where Samuel is told that people judge by outward appearance but God looks at the heart. Nothi...
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The Christians Who Want to Give Former Prisoners the Vote
When Sammy Perez was released from federal prison, his worldly goods amounted to “a $25 check and a bus ticket, and pretty much a ‘good luck.’” He was a changed man from the 19-year-old whose grand larceny conviction had landed him a sentence of 11.5 years. His cellmate, Clarence...
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Somalia: Emergency WASH Response in Baydhaba Rural Areas
. Between February and May 2026, Acted delivered safe water to drought-affected households while working with village committees to rehabilitate two solar-powered systems, securing access that is safe, inclusive and built to last. Water Trucking 1,350,000 litres of safe water de...
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UNICEF Statement on the deaths of 14 newborns following hospital fire in Islamabad, Pakistan
. Across more than 190 countries and territories, we do whatever it takes to help children survive, thrive, and fulfil their potential. Follow UNICEF on X, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube...
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MSF South Sudan: When the River is the Only Road to Healthcare
. Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has responded by building its outreach to towns along the Sobat River Corridor, where many displaced South Sudanese have relocated. MSF currently has more 18 community outreach team members at six sites, covering a popula...
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Yemen: Violence Against Health Care in Conflict 2025 [EN/AR]
. Using data collected by Insecurity Insight, the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition (SHCC) identified 48 incidents of violence against or obstruction of health care in Yemen in 2025. Among the incidents, 17 health workers were arrested, and health facilities were violentl...
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AMDA Emergency Relief #8: Earthquakes in Venezuela - 25 August 2026
. On 15 August, AMDA concluded its medical relief activities for the earthquake victims in Caraballeda, one of the hardest-hit locations in La Guaira, Venezuela. The city was heavily devastated by two massive quakes (mag. 7.2 and 7.5) that struck the nation on 24 June. Nearly two...
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Colombia Earthquake Response I Situation Overview 24 Aug 2026
. On 10 August 2026, at 7:34 a.m., a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck, with its epicenter in San José del Palmar, Chocó Department. The National Government declared a national disaster through Presidential Decree 1171 of 2026 and, on 19 August, issued Decree 1261 declaring an Econ...
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Afghanistan: Health Cluster Dashboard for Humanitarian Response Services (July 2026)
. The dashboard provides an overview of humanitarian health services across Afghanistan, showing coverage, population reached, and overall progress toward annual health targets. It highlights coordinated efforts by partners to deliver essential health services to communities in n...
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Afghanistan: In Badakhshan, UNAMA reaffirms support for women and sustainable livelihoods | United Nations Peace Operations
. In Faizabad, she met women entrepreneurs and visited a UN-supported drug rehabilitation centre. In Khash district, she toured a women's safe space and a women-led dairy processing enterprise that offers a viable alternative to poppy cultivation. Gagnon reaffirmed the UN's suppo...
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Afghanistan: ADI Working Group Meeting (26 August, 2026) [Presentation]
. ACTIVITIES Welcome, Introductions & Meeting Agenda OPD Mapping Initiative – Status, Rollout and Next Steps Afghanistan Hotline Mapping Survey – Key Findings, Gaps and Recommendations UNICEF Feedback & Complaints Mechanism – Lessons Learned and Good Practices Community P...