A rescue operation was carried out. Survivors were taken to a place of safety. Many of those rescued were from Eritrea, and some were unaccompanied children.
The people rescued had been at sea for over 24 hours, having departed from Libya. They were found exhausted and without fuel. Further information about this incident is available, including details about the route taken by the rescued individuals, which is known to be a particularly dangerous migration path.
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. Direct Relief is preparing a 21-ton shipment to support patient care. Five days have passed since flash floods and debris flows swept through the border region of northern Nepal, and emergency responders are continuing search and rescue efforts, including for several hundred wo...
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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 ...
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. 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...
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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...
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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’...
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“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...
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. 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 ...
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. 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 ...
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. 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 ...
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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...
