. Global Overview: El Niño is present. Flood risk exists in parts of Central Africa, northern and eastern Central Asia, areas of Central America, and parts of Northern South America. Africa Weather Hazards Recent and upcoming heavy rains maintain an elevated flood risk along the ...
Countries: Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Uganda . Key Messages Harvest has begun across select bimodal regions of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and parts of the Belg cropping areas of Ethiopia. Pasture and surface water conditions remain generall...
French lawmakers narrowly approve assisted suicide law
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. The twelfth Situation Report provides an update on IOM’s response to the 24 June earthquakes in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, covering the period from 13 to 14 July. Highlights Between 13 and 14 July, IOM continued scaling up its multisectoral response in transitory cam...
. This guidance is intended for Protection Cluster partners responsible for reporting activities through the Protection Cluster 5Ws Monitoring Tool. It provides step-by-step guidance on completing reporting forms, understanding key fields, and ensuring data quality before submiss...
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Countries: United Republic of Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo . As of 30 June 2026, Tanzania hosts 131,034 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from Burundi and the DRC. Of these, 89,808 live in Nyarugusu Camp, while 41,226 (mostly Burundian) refugees live in urban area...
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. This report provides an overview of how the United Nations system has advanced global efforts to prevent and respond to violence against women and girls (VAWG) over the past five years. Drawing from contributions from 36 UN entities and mechanisms to the Inventory of United Nat...
. “The epidemic continues to spread. Five provinces are now affected: Ituri, North Kivu, South Kivu, Haut-Uélé, and Tshopo, with 2,111 confirmed cases, including 750 deaths as of July 13. This geographical increase, in a context of conflict, insecurity, population displacement, a...
One dead, 3 missing after boat sinks off Alcatraz Island
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. On Tuesday afternoon, the ZNPP experienced its 22nd complete loss of off-site power since the start of the conflict. Ten have occurred in the past three months alone, underscoring the deteriorating reliability of the electrical grid. The latest outage was brief and followed the...
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Countries: Zimbabwe, South Africa . FAST FACTS Escalating anti-migrant sentiments and localized violence in South Africa since April have triggered a large-scale return of Zimbabwean migrants. The government on July 14 said that almost 100,000 Zimbabweans had returned so far. Mor...
.000 en el último año, pero las cifras de abandono de la vacunación se mantienen elevadas y estancadas, lo que aumenta el riesgo de brotes de enfermedades GINEBRA/NUEVA YORK, 15 de julio de 2026 – En 2025, el 90% de los lactantes de todo el mundo, cerca de 116 millones, recibió a...
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At least 25 Christians, including a 2-month-old, were killed in separate attacks during the weekend in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region. The first attack occurred on Saturday night, July 11, in the Kum and Wereng-Comp communities of Ryom County in Plateau state. Residents told Intern...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Mitch McConnell is still alive, but our knowing that was subject to a weekslong filibuster. At least for the moment, the aging Kentucky senator’s “proof of life” photo from his hospital bed is a kind of avata...
. The contextualized training material for Colombia was developed based on the Global Training Template and adapted to the national context through a collaborative process, thanks to the valuable contributions of specialists in the environment and humanitarian action. The materia...
. Russia resumes its air campaign against Ukraine with a mass strike on Kyiv. Author Cristian Vlas Eastern Europe Assistant Research Manager Key stats 2,012 political violence events 6% increase compared to last week 234 incidents of violence targeting civilians 24% increase comp...
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Trump criticizes ICE’s pause on agents stopping vehicles
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. Data collected by Insecurity Insight shows that between 07 October 2023 and 23 June 2026, at least 3,354 incidents of violence against or obstruction of access to health care took place across the occupied Palestinian territory. 95% of all incidents were attributed to Israeli f...
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Countries: World, Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia . Southern Africa is bracing for a confirmed El Niño event in the upcoming season, with early projections indicating it may rival or even exceed the severity of the 1997/98 episode. Ag...
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. KEY HIGHLIGHTS • After a prolonged pipeline break, more than 1,600 mt of the approximately 6,000 mt of nutrition commodities expected in the country have arrived, enabling WFP to reach 80,000 children and 25,000 mothers. • Since early July, funding shortfalls have forced WFP to...
. OPERATIONAL CONTEXT & HIGHLIGHTS: • The Russian Federation has significantly intensified aerial attacks against Ukraine, with Kyiv and other cities subjected to multiple large-scale strikes. The UN HRMMU reported that civilian casualties in Ukraine were higher in June 2026 than...
.C., 15 July 2026 (PAHO) – Childhood vaccination in the Americas continued to recover in 2025, with the number of unvaccinated children under the age of one falling from 1.3 million to 1.1 million. However, declining measles vaccination coverage is leaving communities increasingl...
. In 2026, the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Cash Working Group (CWG) in Pakistan established a taskforce to develop a report providing members with guidelines for calculating the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) as well as multipurpose and sectoral cash transfer values. The report i...
. In 2026, the Inter-Agency Humanitarian Cash Working Group (CWG) in Pakistan established a taskforce to develop a report providing members with guidelines for calculating the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB) as well as multipurpose and sectoral cash transfer values. The report i...
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. KEY HIGHLIGHTS • In June, WFP provided assistance to 2,411 people (93 percent women) through a combination of emergency assistance, capacity strengthening, and malnutrition prevention activities. • In parallel, WFP prepared and prepositioned over 322,300 food rations (January-J...
Countries: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen .
Countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Poland, Romania . Appeal highlights The war in Ukraine has entered in its fifth devastating year, marked by an escalation of unrelenting attacks since April 2025 and the systematic destruction of critical infrastructure. The war con...
. The other €10 million, subject to the approval of the Budgetary Authority, support the search and rescue, medical and other expert teams' operations, along with in-kind assistance deployed in the country. The announcement comes as Commissioner for Preparedness and Crisis Manage...
. In two months, this outbreak has become the third largest, and fastest growing, Ebola disease outbreak on record. Expanded international support is urgently needed to ensure the response is adequately resourced. BUNIA — Two months after the Ebola disease outbreak was officially...
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We walked down stories of stairs into the earth. Our whispers echoed off the walls. At last, there it was: a wooden dock crouching over an underground pool of dazzling blue water. We had arrived at our first cenote. Cenotes occur naturally in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, where my ...
“Alcohol use disorder,” to use the formal term, has always existed in America. It’s often hidden among the housed and visible among those on the streets—or half visible, as it was with Barry, a 50-year-old at the Watered Gardens homeless mission I visited on a reporting trip to M...
In April, nearly 1,000 youth gathered in a packed church hall in Ziro, a town in the mountains of India’s Arunachal Pradesh State, which borders China. As electrifying worship music echoed through the crowd, some raised their hands in praise as others knelt and wept silently. Abo...
Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda . Biological risks, whether naturally occurring, accidental, or deliberate, do not respect geopolitical borders. The current Bundibugyo Virus Disease (BVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda once again d...
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. Chairs: World Health Organization (WHO), Momentum Wheels for Humanity Ukraine (MWH) Participants: Momentum Wheels for Humanity, GIZ, CF ‘ZDOROVI’, MSF OCB, Central Project Management Agency (CPVA), NGO ‘Fight for Right’, National Committee of Red Cross of Ukraine, CF "Save Ukra...
Countries: Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo . The review found that Uganda’s systems enabled the outbreak to be detected within seven days, notified to the relevant public health authorities within one day and followed by priority response actions within seven days. It al...
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. Chairs: World Health Organization (WHO), Momentum Wheels for Humanity Ukraine (MWH) Participants: Momentum Wheels for Humanity, GIZ, CF ‘ZDOROVI’, MSF OCB, Central Project Management Agency (CPVA), NGO ‘Fight for Right’, National Committee of Red Cross of Ukraine, CF "Save Ukra...
. Key findings: Health worker kidnappings surged and health facilities continued to be attacked. Reports of targeted health worker killings persisted, while patients in hospitals were also targeted. Armed groups opened fire on health facilities and aid convoys, erected barricades...
. AGENDA 1. Introductions and Welcome Remarks 2. READY Port Initiative 3. APW 2026 Outcomes and Emergency Preparedness – Thematic Area ToR Discussion 4. Humanitarian Leadership Group on Supply Chain (HLGSC) Updates 5. Importation and Customs Clearance Together (IMPACCT) Updates 6...
. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) is a unique public private partnership with six core partners, including Rotary International. What role do partnerships play in the progress we have made against polio? When Rotary first dreamed of a polio-free world, we knew we c...
. KEY FINDINGS: The assessment used a longitudinal baseline–follow-up design, tracking 442 beneficiary householdsbetween Q4 2024 and Q3 2025 after an average of seven rounds of food assistance (cash or in-kind)and LNS-MQ supplementation, measuring changes in food security, dietar...
. KEY FINDINGS • The assessment used a longitudinal baseline–follow-up design, tracking 442 beneficiary households between Q4 2024 and Q3 2025 after an average of seven rounds of food assistance (cash or inkind) and LNS-MQ supplementation, measuring changes in food security, diet...
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. Since 4 July 2026, continuous heavy rainfall associated with an active monsoon and a persistent low-pressure system over the north-west Bay of Bengal, combined with upstream runoff, has triggered widespread flash floods, severe waterlogging, and landslides across southeastern, ...
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