{"time":57,"took":30,"totalCount":1135014,"count":100,"data":[{"id":"4213063","score":1,"fields":{"title":"New Ebola Outbreak Declared in the Democratic Republic of Congo","body":"## With 65 suspected deaths, Direct Relief has offered support to Africa CDC and other organizations working to contain the spread of the disease.\n\nBy [**Noah Smit**](https:\/\/www.directrelief.org\/author\/nsmith\/)h\n\nAn Ebola outbreak has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo\u2019s northeastern Ituri Province, where health officials have reported 246 suspected cases and at least 65 deaths, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nThe outbreak is DRC\u2019s 17th recorded Ebola outbreak since the virus was first identified in 1976. Unlike most previous DRC outbreaks, which involved the Zaire strain, this outbreak has been confirmed as the Bundibugyo strain, for which there are no approved vaccines currently available.\n\nThe outbreak is centered in Mongwalu and Rwampara, with suspected cases also reported in Bunia, Ituri\u2019s capital. Laboratory testing by DRC\u2019s National Institute of Biomedical Research found the Bundibugyo strain in 13 of 20 samples.\n\nThe outbreak has raised regional concern because Ituri borders Uganda and South Sudan, and the affected areas see significant cross-border population movement. Uganda has reported the death of a Congolese man in Kampala from Ebola Bundibugyo, which officials described as an imported case. Ebola mortality rates can [reach 90 percent](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ebola\/about\/index.html), and the disease spreads through body fluids.\n\nBecause of this transmission pathway, access to [personal protective equipment](https:\/\/www.directrelief.org\/2019\/11\/amid-the-ebola-epidemic-protecting-health-care-workers\/) is essential for healthcare workers as they work to contain the spread of the disease.\n\nDirect Relief [has responded to multiple Ebola outbreaks](https:\/\/www.directrelief.org\/2019\/07\/protective-gear-medical-supplies-bound-for-health-workers-on-frontlines-drc-ebola-outbreak\/), including the [2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak](https:\/\/www.directrelief.org\/emergency\/west-africa-ebola-outbreak-2014-2015\/), which killed more than 11,000 people across several countries.\n\nIn response, Direct Relief donated approximately $40 million in medical aid and 476 tons of essential medical supplies and protective equipment for health workers to combat Ebola in Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone, where the majority of the cases were located.\n\n**Direct Relief is monitoring the current outbreak and has offered medical support to regional response partners, including Africa CDC, the International Organization for Migration, and Jericho Road Community Health Center in eastern DRC.**\n\nThe organization will respond to medical needs as they become known.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"Direct Relief"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T10:35:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213058","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Togo Country Brief, May 2026","country":[{"id":231,"name":"Togo","shortname":"Togo","iso3":"tgo","location":{"lat":8.77,"lon":1.04},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T10:31:15+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213054","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Nigeria Cholera Outbreak: Situation Report #1 (May 20, 2026)","body":"**FAST FACTS**\n\n\u2022 Suspected cases of acute watery diarrhea were identified on May 1 in Shehuri South ward, Maiduguri. The alert was formally reported to the Public Health Emergency Operations Center on May 4.\n\n\u2022 As of May 17, 1,565 suspected cases and 21 deaths had been reported across 142 settlements.\n\n\u2022 International Medical Corps was among the first partners to provide support in intiating and coordinating a response.","country":[{"id":175,"name":"Nigeria","shortname":"Nigeria","iso3":"nga","location":{"lat":9.59,"lon":8.11},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Medical Corps"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T10:06:49+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213052","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola: IFRC scales up response in eastern DRC as regional risks grow | IFRC","body":"**Kinshasa\/Nairobi\/Geneva, 21 May 2026** \u2014 The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is scaling up Ebola response efforts in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and neighbouring countries, and has launched a CHF 29 million regional emergency appeal.\n\nThe Democratic Republic of the Congo Red Cross Society, supported by the IFRC, has deployed 200 volunteers in Bunia and Rwampara health zones to support community engagement and frontline public health activities.\n\nRed Cross volunteers are already going door-to-door in affected communities, helping families understand how Ebola spreads, countering misinformation, and encouraging early care-seeking when symptoms appear. A Red Cross radio programme is reinforcing these messages at a broader scale.\n\nFamilies are also being advised not to touch or wash the bodies of suspected Ebola victims, as this remains one of the most common routes of transmission during outbreaks. On the first day of activities, Red Cross volunteers reached 645 families.\n\nAriel Kestens, IFRC Head of Delegation in Kinshasa, said: *\u201cThe Bundibugyo strain is particularly concerning, as there is limited evidence on the effectiveness of treatments and vaccines developed for the Zaire strain. The outbreak is spreading rapidly in areas where health systems are already fragile and where population movement across borders is frequent. The priority now is to act quickly and work closely with communities, as the coming days are critical. We call on the international community to demonstrate solidarity and support the Red Cross Red Crescent\u2019s lifesaving response.\u201d*\n\nGregoire Mateso, National President of the DRC RC Secretary General in Kinshasa, said: *\u201cPeople are afraid, but when Red Cross volunteers provide clear information and offer practical support, communities are more likely to seek treatment promptly and follow preventive measures. This clearly demonstrates that our volunteers have earned the trust of the communities they serve, and this trust is essential to stopping the spread of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus disease.\u201d*\n\nThe outbreak is spreading through areas already affected by insecurity, weak healthcare systems and constant population movement, complicating efforts to contain the virus.\n\nFears of wider regional spread are also growing. Uganda has already confirmed Bundibugyo Ebola cases linked to the ongoing outbreak, while neighbouring countries, including Burundi, Rwanda and South Sudan, are stepping up readiness efforts in high-risk border areas.\n\nRobert Kwesiga, Secretary General, Uganda Red Cross Society in Kampala, said: *\u201cWe have placed our teams and volunteers on high alert and are retraining and preparing them for rapid deployment to support the national Ebola response. As Uganda Red Cross, our role is not only to support emergency health interventions, but also to stand with communities, strengthen public awareness, build trust, and help prevent further spread of the disease. We are working closely with the Ministry of Health and partners to ensure communities in high-risk areas receive timely support, accurate information, and lifesaving humanitarian assistance.\u201d*\n\nPrevious Ebola outbreaks have shown that the chain of transmission can be broken faster when communities trust the response, seek care early and have access to reliable information and support.\n\nUrgent funding is needed to expand surveillance, deploy additional burial teams, deliver protective equipment and scale up frontline response efforts in affected communities and high-risk border areas.\n\n**In Kinshasa:**\n\nJean-Michel Ntalemwa, +243 808 804 037\n\n**In Nairobi:**\n\nSusan Mbalu, +254 733 827 654\n\n**In Geneva:**\n\nTommaso Della Longa +41 79 708 4367\n\nPaolo Cravero +41 79 894 8396","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":47,"name":"Burundi","shortname":"Burundi","iso3":"bdi","location":{"lat":-3.53,"lon":29.89}},{"id":198,"name":"Rwanda","shortname":"Rwanda","iso3":"rwa","location":{"lat":-1.87,"lon":29.92}},{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5}},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T10:03:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213050","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Rotary to scale proven water and sanitation initiative in Haiti","body":"## **Program aims to improve living conditions and reduce waterborne disease by 25% in three local government areas in Haiti by 2030**\n\n**PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (May 18, 2026) \u2014** As conflict, recurring natural disasters, climate change, and geographic disparities continue to disrupt access to clean water and sanitation services across Haiti, millions of people remain highly vulnerable to waterborne and hygiene-related illnesses.\n\nRotary is expanding a collaborative national model, the Haiti National Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative (HANWASH), that has proven success working with 11 water service providers to maintain infrastructure and sustain paid access to clean water and sanitation.\n\nThe scaled-up effort, *Collaboration for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems in Haiti* \u2014 led by Rotary clubs in Haiti and the Caribbean in partnership with nonprofits and government bodies including Haiti Outreach and Direction Nationale de l\u2019Eau Potable et de l\u2019Assainissement (DINEPA) \u2014 aims to improve access to clean and safe water, sanitation, and hygiene while strengthening demand, governance, and sustainable use for approximately 70,000 people in Cavaillon, Ferrier, and Pignon by 2030.\n\nThe program will strengthen community capacity to develop, maintain, and expand pay-for-service clean water and sanitation services by:\n\n- working with women and other local leaders in 40 urban and rural communities to build demand for high-quality water services and promote the benefits of fee-based clean water access and healthy hygiene practices, including handwashing and avoiding open defecation;\n- coordinating the construction and restoration of clean water systems while training local operators and community leaders to strengthen governance and ensure sustainable management and monitoring of water services; and\n- driving accountability and community buy-in as water service providers in the selected communities will contribute 10% of their revenue to regional and national water regulatory bodies to further expand clean water and sanitation services.\n\n\u201cIn a fragile setting like Haiti, clean water and sanitation is one of the biggest challenges the country faces, and Rotary aims to address it head on. By partnering with local leaders, other nonprofits, and government agencies, Rotary members are helping to facilitate access to clean water and best sanitation practices for all, reducing waterborne and sanitation-related diseases for the most vulnerable, including children under five, and creating healthier communities for generations to come,\u201d **said Marl\u00e8ne Gay, a HANWASH Board and Collaboration for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems in Haiti Transition Team Member and member of the Rotary Club of Petion-Ville.**\n\nCollaboration for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems in Haiti is Rotary\u2019s sixth Programs of Scale recipient \u2014 an annual competitive grant process that awards funding to an evidence-based program that aligns with one of Rotary\u2019s causes and has the capability for scaling-up to help more people. The programs are sponsored by Rotary members in collaboration with local communities and partner organizations.\n\n\u201cRotary members across the Caribbean and Haiti are working side by side with local partners to deliver lasting solutions that protect health and strengthen communities,\u201d **said Rotary International President Francesco Arezzo.** \u201cBy supporting Collaboration for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems in Haiti, Rotary will be able to help more people gain access to safe water and sanitation\u2014one of the most basic human needs\u2014and lay the groundwork for a healthier, more resilient Haiti.\u201d\n\nRotary members throughout the world develop and implement sustainable, community-driven projects that fight [**disease**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/fighting-disease), promote [**peace**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/promoting-peace), provide [**clean water**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/providing-clean-water), support [**education**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/supporting-education), help [**mothers and children**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/saving-mothers-and-children), grow local [**economies**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/growing-local-economies) and protect the [**environment**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en\/our-causes\/protecting-environment). Over the last 100 years, US $5.5 billion has been awarded through The Rotary Foundation \u2013 Rotary\u2019s charitable arm that helps clubs work together to perform meaningful, impactful service.\n\n### **Rotary and Partner Quotes**\n\n**Holger Knaack, Chair of The Rotary Foundation Trustees said,** \u201cThrough Collaboration for Sustainable Water and Sanitation Systems in Haiti, Rotary is doing more than delivering clean water\u2014we\u2019re helping communities build long term health and resilience. By strengthening local capacity to manage and sustain water systems, this effort will help more children stay in school, improve public health, support livelihoods, and create lasting opportunities for Haiti\u2019s future.\u201d\n\n**Neil Van Dine, Haiti Outreach Co-founder and Director and a member of the Rotary E-Club of WASH said,** \u201cSince 1997, Haiti Outreach has helped lead the development of a community-led model for safe water access in rural Haiti built on durable infrastructure, local leadership, and long-term management. This approach has reached more than 300,000 people across 550 communities and helped shape WASH practice nationally. We are proud to partner through Rotary to help scale this Haitian-led model across the country.\u201d\n\n**Edwige Petit, Direction Nationale de l\u2019Eau Potable et de l\u2019Assainissement (DINEPA) Director of Sanitation said,** \u201cRotary, through its HANWASH program, supports the Haitian government\u2019s efforts to achieve the goals of access to clean, safe drinking water for all as well as ending open defecation in rural and peri urban communities. As the regulatory body for the sector within the Haitian government, Direction Nationale de l\u2019Eau Potable et de l\u2019Assainissement (DINEPA) is amenable to continuing this collaboration and extending clean water access to every Haitian.\u201d\n\n**About Rotary:** [**Rotary**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en) brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world\u2019s most pressing humanitarian challenges and creating lasting change. Rotary connects 1.2 million people of action from more than 45,000 Rotary clubs in almost every country in the world. Their service improves lives both locally and internationally, from helping those in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world. For more information, visit [**rotary.org**](https:\/\/www.rotary.org\/en).\n\n**Contact:** Stephanie Graff, +1-847-425-5797, **stephanie.graff@rotary.org**","country":[{"id":113,"name":"Haiti","shortname":"Haiti","iso3":"hti","location":{"lat":19.18,"lon":-72.43},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Rotary"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:53:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213049","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Bangladesh: Situation Report #4 - Measles Outbreak (21 May 2026)","body":"**Highlights**\n\n\u2022 Bangladesh has reported 57,856 suspected measles cases and 8,067 confirmed cases across all 64 districts as of 20 May, with children under five accounting for 81 per cent of reported cases.\n\n\u2022 More than 18.3 million children have been vaccinated through the nationwide measlesrubella (MR) campaign, surpassing the initial target and reaching 102 per cent coverage.\n\n\u2022 Weekly measles transmission remains high, with average daily reported cases exceeding 1,100 since 9 April, despite declines observed in several high-priority upazilas following the start of vaccination activities.\n\n\u2022 In Bhasan Char and Cox\u2019s Bazar camps, vaccination campaigns reached most targeted children, while 595 suspected cases, 60 confirmed cases and five deaths have been reported among Rohingya refugees to date.\n\n\u2022 Humanitarian partners have supported surge response measures at priority health facilities, including the deployment of frontline health workers, the establishment of temporary triage and isolation capacity, and the procurement of critical medical supplies and equipment.\n\n\u2022 The Government is considering extending the MR vaccination campaign by one month, particularly in underserved and hard-to-reach areas where transmission remains high.","country":[{"id":31,"name":"Bangladesh","shortname":"Bangladesh","iso3":"bgd","location":{"lat":23.84,"lon":90.27},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:47:37+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213046","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Gaza\u2019s public health crisis deepens as rodent infestations, sewage overflow and soaring heat threaten civilians","body":"Amman, Jordan, May 21, 2026 \u2014 Gaza continues to face a severe and unaddressed public health crisis, with collapsed sanitation systems, extreme overcrowding, and widespread rodent and insect infestations exposing civilians to disease and further suffering amid soaring temperatures, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) warns.\n\nIn displacement camps and overcrowded shelters, families are reporting rising cases of skin diseases, lice infestations, and heat-related illnesses, while poor waste management, sewage overflow and rodent infestations are creating dangerous environmental conditions. Rodent-borne diseases, including hantavirus, pose a significant risk and require urgent prevention and surveillance measures. The crisis is being compounded by shortages of lubricant oil which has been prevented from entering Gaza. This is resulting in an inability to operate water and sanitation systems, resulting in increasing sewage overflow and the further breakdown of already overwhelmed infrastructure.\n\nScott Lea, IRC\u2019s Interim Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory, said:\n\n\u201cPeople that the IRC and our partners support continue to tell us about the devastating living conditions inside displacement camps. Families describe severe rodent and insect infestations, unbearable heat inside damaged tents, and a lack of shaded communal spaces, leaving children suffering from dehydration, skin irritation, and heat exhaustion. Many caregivers say children remain confined to unsafe shelters because there are no safe spaces to play and families fear for their safety outside.\n\n\u201cPeople are telling us they feel stripped of dignity, safety, and hope. Women and mothers are trying to care for their families in impossible conditions, while sewage overflows and sanitation systems continue to collapse around them. Without urgent improvements in water, sanitation, shelter, and humanitarian access, civilians will remain exposed to worsening health risks and increasingly inhumane living conditions.\u201d\n\nMany shelters including tents and houses have been significantly damaged and deteriorated and are no longer fit for safe living, with widespread shortages of bedding and essential household items adding to the strain on displaced families. Families are increasingly resorting to harmful coping mechanisms, including child labor, as economic pressures intensify following the loss of household breadwinners.\n\nWomen, children, older people, and persons with disabilities continue to face heightened risks. Shared sanitation facilities such as showers and toilets remain dangerously overcrowded, lack privacy, and are often inaccessible for elderly people and persons with disabilities. Women and girls report severe menstrual hygiene challenges, with many reducing water intake or avoiding facilities altogether due to poor conditions and safety concerns. The absence of lighting around latrines at night further increases protection risks for women and children.\n\nWhile the world's attention is focused on the politics surrounding the war in the Middle East, the lives of those living in Gaza continue to deteriorate. Humanitarians have the ability to provide the support that families need, but cannot do so without rapid and unimpeded delivery of aid. What is needed now is the full opening of all border crossings into Gaza alongside the lifting of restrictions so that humanitarians can bring in urgent supplies of medical equipment, hygiene materials, fuel and shelter items.","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Rescue Committee"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:33:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213047","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola Outbreak in DRC and Uganda: Situation Report #1 (May 20, 2026)","body":"**Key Updates**\n\n- **The Bundibugyo strain of Ebola virus** has impacted communities in DRC and Uganda, with **over 139 suspected deaths,** 35 confirmed cases, and **more than 600 suspected cases.**\n- As in other outbreaks, **women and health workers** appear to be disproportionately affected and face a significant risk of contracting the virus.\n- This particular strain of Ebola virus **does not have a vaccine** that can prevent severe, life-threatening Ebola disease.\n- **Project HOPE is working with local partners to distribute personal protective equipment,** including masks, gloves, goggles, face shields, and other protective clothing.\n- Project HOPE responded to DRC\u2019s Ebola virus outbreak in 2025, as well as the 2013 \u20132016 West Africa outbreak that killed over 11,000 people.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"Project HOPE"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:30:51+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213044","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Agrometeorological 10 days Bulletin for 21\u201331 May Across the Northern Tonle Sap Basin of the PEARL Project","body":"No flood risk for the next 10 days. Keep tree bases mulched 10-15 cm (about a palm to a palm-and-a-half thick) using dry rice straw, chopped prunings, dried grass\/leaves; keep mulch a hand width away from the trunk to avoid rot. Maintain shallow diversion furrows one hand wide, one palm deep to move rainwater away from trunks during the rainy season. Young trees: keep a small raised ring around the basin about half a palm high to slow splash and hold irrigation water near the roots. This helps reduce splash-borne diseases on leaves and stems, prevents soil erosion around the trunk, and lets water soak in instead of running off. Keep mulch a handwidth away from the trunk, and during heavy rain cut a small notch in the ring so water drains and the trunk and graft union do not stay wet. Bearing trees: keep basins two to three paces across clear of weeds and trash.  \n\nAfter showers, check for standing water; if present, open a cut in the ring to drain.","country":[{"id":48,"name":"Cambodia","shortname":"Cambodia","iso3":"khm","location":{"lat":12.46,"lon":104.92},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:30:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213042","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cluster Nutrition - Bulletin SNSAP N\u00b063 (janvier-mars 2026)","body":"Au premier trimestre 2026, la situation nutritionnelle en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo reste pr\u00e9occupante selon le SNSAP. Quatorze provinces sur 26 comptent au moins une zone de sant\u00e9 en alerte nutritionnelle. Les provinces les plus touch\u00e9es sont le Kasa\u00ef Oriental avec 14 zones de sant\u00e9 en alerte, suivi de l\u2019\u00c9quateur (10), du Kwango (8), ainsi que du Haut-Lomami et de la Tshuapa (6 chacune).\n\nPar ailleurs, douze provinces enregistrent des zones de sant\u00e9 en situation d\u2019urgence nutritionnelle. La province du Sankuru est la plus affect\u00e9e avec 14 zones en urgence, suivie du Nord-Ubangi et de la Lomami avec 5 zones chacune.\n\nGlobalement, sur l\u2019ensemble des zones de sant\u00e9 analys\u00e9es, 65,3 % sont sous contr\u00f4le, 14,5 % n\u00e9cessitent une surveillance rapproch\u00e9e, 11,9 % sont en alerte et 7,1 % sont en situation d\u2019urgence. Enfin, 1,2 % des zones de sant\u00e9 sont rest\u00e9es silencieuses durant le trimestre, notamment au Kwango, Mai-Ndombe, Sud-Kivu et Tshopo.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo"},{"name":"Nutrition Cluster"},{"name":"UN Children's Fund"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:04:13+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213040","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Anticipatory Action Year in Focus 2025 | World Food Programme","body":"Executive Summary\n\n2025 marked the year in which Anticipatory Action (AA) became firmly established as one of WFP\u2019s core approaches to delivering its life\u2011saving mandate. AA is now embedded within the organization\u2019s Strategic Objectives, shaping how preparedness, early warning and emergency response are designed and delivered. This consolidation has been underpinned by a significant expansion of pre\u2011arranged financing, enabling AA to be triggered efficiently and systematically ahead of predictable shocks. WFP\u2019s global AA portfolio accounted for USD 124 million, including USD 89 million prearranged financing for forecast-based activations. This scale up was possible thanks to the support from partners such as Austria, Australia, Denmark, the European Union, Germany, Google.org, Korea, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), the Adaptation Fund and the Green Climate Fund. WFP scaled up its AA operations from covering 6.1 million people in 44 countries in 2024 to more than 6.3 million people across the 47 countries covered in this year\u2019s annual report. Additional countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean and the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Nigeria and Venezuela are now able to reach more people with AA to reduce the effects of increasingly recurrent extreme weather events. Anticipatory Activations to mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events were triggered in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cuba, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Peru and the Philippines. Over USD 35 million was rapidly disbursed for the activations, resulting in 1,228,001 people receiving anticipatory transfers and over 15 million people receiving early warning information to protect their lives, food security and livelihoods ahead of predicted flood, cyclone or drought events.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:03:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213039","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the LEGO Foundation partner to bring lifesaving education to 300,000 children in emergencies","body":"## Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council and the LEGO Foundation partner to bring lifesaving education to 300,000 children in emergencies\n\nAt a time when global humanitarian needs are reaching record levels, Save the Children, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and the LEGO Foundation are launching a new four-year partnership worth 32 million US dollars to deliver urgent, play-based education and protection to children affected by conflict and crisis.\n\nPress release\n\n[Global](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/themes?categoryId=23) Published 21. May 2026\n\nThrough this partnership, an estimated 300,000 children in conflict-affected countries around the world \u2013 from Haiti to Bangladesh and from Lebanon to Somalia \u2013 will gain access to protective, playful education, improving children\u2019s wellbeing, resilience and future opportunities.\n\nToday, an unprecedented 520 million (1) children live in active conflict zones, while 273 million (2) are out of school. For children growing up amid violence, displacement, and uncertainty, education is far more than learning \u2013 it is a lifeline. Education provides safe spaces where children can play, learn and begin to recover from trauma, while restoring a sense of normality, stability and hope for the future. An absence of safe spaces to play and learn can have lifelong consequences \u2013 increasing the risk of child labour, early marriage, recruitment into armed groups and long-term psychosocial harm.\n\nTo address this urgency, Save the Children and NRC, in partnership with the LEGO Foundation, have developed the unique **Education Acute Humanitarian Response Mechanism** \u2013 an innovative operational model that enables the rapid provision of safe, inclusive and play-based education for children within days of a sudden-onset emergency or escalation in needs, ideally bridging the gap before longer-term funding is in place. The Mechanism combines education with child protection, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), health and nutrition, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) \u2013 all essential to children\u2019s health, recovery and ability to engage in play and learning.\n\nSince we launched the Mechanism in May 2024, more than 135,000 children affected by conflict and disasters have been aided through 33 responses in 18 countries across four continents. Key operations from the first phase include responses in humanitarian hotspots such as the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), Lebanon and Sudan. In these responses, we established safe spaces with clean water and sanitation, provided packages of playful activities, trained and mobilised teachers and facilitators, and distributed teaching and learning materials, along with many other supporting activities. Jointly these playful trauma-sensitive and lifesaving interventions have significantly improved the children\u2019s ability to protect themselves, reconnect and start to recover in these times of crisis.\n\nThe impact of this work is perhaps most clearly seen through the experiences of those closest to the children. As a facilitator at one of the programme\u2019s safe spaces in Gaza puts it: \u201cChildren in Gaza do not see play as merely a form of entertainment. Instead, it represents a deeply meaningful psychological and social outlet, especially in the context of the ongoing crisis. For many of them, play offers a temporary safe space \u2014 an escape from the harsh realities of fear, displacement, and loss.\u201d\n\nBuilding on these successes, we are pleased to announce that, over the next four years, the partnership will raise its ambitions by expanding reach, capacity and readiness. In addition to reaching an estimated 300,000 children affected by crises, we will deliver lifesaving education faster and at greater scale when emergencies strike. Tailored to local contexts and centred on the individual child, the response will address children\u2019s needs holistically and be embedded more deeply within the countries and organisations we work with, particularly alongside local and national actors, to maximise impact.\n\nIn an increasingly uncertain world, where emergencies are becoming more frequent and severe, our commitment places lifesaving education at the centre of humanitarian response, ensuring that children\u2019s rights to protection, wellbeing, and learning are upheld when crises strike.\n\n**Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, CEO at Save the Children Denmark, said:**\n\n\u201cAccess to education is a fundamental right for every child and is essential for their wellbeing and development. Yet millions of children around the world see this right violated, with devastating consequences for their mental health, happiness and future prospects. Through this partnership, we can provide vital protection and education to thousands of children affected by crisis, giving them not only support for today but hope and opportunities for the future.\u201d\n\n**Jan Egeland, Secretary General of NRC, said:**\n\n\u201cConflict and displacement continue to deny millions of children their right to education. Through this partnership, we aim to help children and their parents where they are. By delivering essential, lifesaving education within weeks of a crisis, and using play-based, engaging approaches, we will help children learn, heal, and regain a sense of normality. This equips children with the skills and resilience they need to move forward.\u201d\n\n**Sidsel Marie Kristensen, CEO at the LEGO Foundation, said:**\n\n\u201cAt the LEGO Foundation, we believe that even in the most difficult circumstances, every child deserves the opportunity to develop and thrive. Together with Save the Children and the Norwegian Refugee Council, we are working to ensure children can continue to learn, heal and recover, even in the most challenging conditions. By acting quickly and at scale, we can help protect children\u2019s wellbeing today while supporting their ability to thrive and build their futures.\u201d\n\n**About Save the Children**\n\nSave the Children believes every child deserves a future. Since our founding more than 100 years ago, we've changed the lives of more than 1 billion children. Around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children, every day and in times of crisis, transforming their lives and the future we share.\n\n**About the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)**\n\nThe Norwegian Refugee Council has more than 75 years of experience working in conflict and emergency settings, helping people forced to flee across 40 countries. We provide access to shelter, legal assistance, education, protection from violence, and water, sanitation and hygiene. NRC has supported millions of children and young people through different learning pathways in challenging contexts, offering safe and inclusive education that responds to their psychosocial, emotional and cognitive needs, while minimising learning loss and supporting transition to durable solutions from the onset of emergencies.\n\n**About the LEGO Foundation**\n\nThe LEGO Foundation is an independent Danish corporate foundation working with partners around the world to support children\u2019s needs and champion the dignity of childhood. We believe every young person deserves a childhood that protects them, respects them, and lets them be a child. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re working to build through partnerships, knowledge, funding and investment in solutions that help children thrive.\n\n**Notes to editor:**\n\n1. [https:\/\/www.prio.org\/comments\/1829](https:\/\/www.prio.org\/comments\/1829)\n2. [https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/more-children-out-school-7th-year-row-273-million](https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/more-children-out-school-7th-year-row-273-million)","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Norwegian Refugee Council"},{"name":"Save the Children"},{"name":"The Lego Foundation"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T09:03:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213031","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (5-18 May 2026)","body":"**INDIA**  \n On 13 May, severe thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rain, hail, lightning and strong winds affected Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, resulting in fatalities, injuries and widespread damage. According to media reports as of 15 May, at least 111 people were killed and 59 injured, with the highest number of fatalities recorded in Prayagraj district. The storms also damaged 227 houses, killed approximately 170 livestock and caused power outages across affected areas. In response, the Government of Uttar Pradesh launched relief and rescue operations, directed local authorities to undertake rapid damage assessments and announced compensation for affected families.\n\n**MYANMAR**  \n Civilians in Myanmar continue to face compounded crises driven by ongoing conflict between the Myanmar Armed Forces and non-state armed groups, as well as severe weather impacts across multiple regions and states. In Magway Region, armed clashes in Salin Township since early May have displaced approximately 5,000 people from 15 villages, reportedly killing eight civilians, and damaging or destroying about 300 houses. In Mandalay Region, airstrikes and drone attacks in Ngazun Township on 7 May reportedly killed three civilians, injured four others, and forced an unverified number of people to flee. In Sagaing Region, military operations in Monywa and Paungbyin townships on 8 and 9 May reportedly killed nine civilians, including a child, and destroyed several houses. In Rakhine State, armed clashes in mid-May displaced approximately 3,000 people from several villages in Kyaukpyu Township to Ramree Township. In addition to the conflict, heavy rainfall and strong winds in late April reportedly destroyed more than 100 houses and several public structures, including schools and churches, in several townships in Chin State and Magway Region.\n\n**CHINA**  \n On 18 May at 00:21 local time, a 5.2 magnitude earthquake at a depth of 10 km struck northern-central Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south-eastern China, with the epicentre located approximately 24 km north-west of Liuzhou city. According to the authorities, the earthquake resulted in two fatalities, one missing person and the displacement of more than 7,000 people in Liuzhou. At least 13 buildings collapsed and transport disruptions were reported. The Office of the State Council Earthquake Relief and the Ministry of Emergency Management activated a Level-IV emergency response and deployed a working team to support local relief operations. Authorities also dispatched approximately 10,000 relief items, including tents, folding beds, summer quilts, towel blankets and folding tables and chairs to support emergency response and temporary resettlement operations.\n\n**SOLOMON ISLANDS**  \n Tropical Cyclone Maila continues to generate significant humanitarian needs across Western and Choiseul Provinces in the Solomon Islands, with ongoing displacement and sheltering in collective centres and host communities. Initial assessments have identified 161 communities affected in Western province with 31,000 in need of shelter support across both provinces. Humanitarian needs continue to evolve, while access constraints, geographic dispersion and logistical challenges contribute to significant information gaps in remote areas. Protection risks are increasing due to displacement and overcrowding and are further compounded by unexploded ordnance (UXO) contamination, with flooding and erosion exposing ordnance and heightening hazards for affected communities and responders. The Emergency Relief Coordinator has allocated US$2.5 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support urgent life-saving assistance.\n\n**DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA (DPRK)**  \n According to official DPRK state reporting, the country is experiencing a severe spring drought driven by persistent high-pressure systems, high temperatures and critically low precipitation, with early April rainfall (14.3 mm) remaining insufficient to ease conditions. Forecasts indicate continued rainfall deficits and sustained high temperatures, posing risks to food security. In response, the government has mobilised a coordinated multi-sectoral response, including water transport for irrigation, provision of agricultural inputs and logistics support, and measures to maximise irrigation through improved electricity supply. Local authorities, particularly in South and North Hwanghae provinces, are maintaining irrigation systems, managing reservoirs and sluice gates, and reducing water loss, while agricultural workers are implementing drought-resilient farming practices and expanding water access through well-digging and conservation measures.","country":[{"id":165,"name":"Myanmar","shortname":"Myanmar","iso3":"mmr","location":{"lat":21.15,"lon":96.51},"primary":true},{"id":58,"name":"China","shortname":"China","iso3":"chn","location":{"lat":35.49,"lon":101.9}},{"id":74,"name":"Democratic People's Republic of Korea","shortname":"DPRK","iso3":"prk","location":{"lat":40.35,"lon":126.85}},{"id":119,"name":"India","shortname":"India","iso3":"ind","location":{"lat":22.76,"lon":79.28}},{"id":215,"name":"Solomon Islands","shortname":"Solomon Islands","iso3":"slb","location":{"lat":-8.92,"lon":159.63}}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:27:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213030","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Myanmar Humanitarian Access Snapshot - April 2026","country":[{"id":165,"name":"Myanmar","shortname":"Myanmar","iso3":"mmr","location":{"lat":21.15,"lon":96.51},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:07:56+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213029","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNHCR Afghanistan Situation Regional Update April 2026","body":"The operational environment in Afghanistan remained volatile in April, amid continued returns from Iran and Pakistan, cross-border tensions, flooding and movement restrictions. Reception capacity at key border points remained strained, while shelling, drone activity and unexploded ordnance incidents along eastern and southern border areas disrupted civilian life. Damage to civilian infrastructure further complicated humanitarian access and assistance delivery in some areas. Restrictions imposed by the de facto authorities, including measures affecting national female staff access to United Nations premises and certain field locations, continued to hamper protectionsensitive programming.  \n\nIn Iran, regional tensions and insecurity heightened protection risks for refugees and host communities. Although a ceasefire was reached on 8 April following weeks of conflict, the situation remained volatile, with sporadic security incidents and strikes on infrastructure affecting movements and access in some areas. Despite operational constraints, UNHCR maintained presence in Tehran, Mashhad,  \nIsfahan, Kerman, and at the Dogharoun border, enabling critical monitoring, documentation, protection and assistance.  \n\nIn Pakistan, deportation pressures, stricter residency enforcement and increased security monitoring continued to shape the operational environment for Afghans, regardless of status. While all 54 refugee villages have now been de-notified (formally closed), 21 have been vacated, further underscoring the shrinking protection space. Authorities continued to prioritize voluntary repatriation and facilitate returns under the Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan (IFRP). In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, raids, search operations and document verification campaigns were reported across multiple districts, alongside sustained deportation pressure despite no significant increase in arrests.  \nSimilar verification drives continued in Islamabad and Punjab, where documented Afghans also increasingly face scrutiny. In Sindh, arrests and detentions continued although the environment was comparatively calmer with fewer household raids reported. In Balochistan, pressure remained relatively lower overall although deportation risks and monitoring persisted, particularly along border areas and routes towards Iran.","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true},{"id":121,"name":"Iran (Islamic Republic of)","shortname":"Iran","iso3":"irn","location":{"lat":32.57,"lon":54.3}},{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39}},{"id":227,"name":"Tajikistan","shortname":"Tajikistan","iso3":"tjk","location":{"lat":38.84,"lon":71.04}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:03:14+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213028","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Bulgaria: Socio-Economic Insights Survey June - November 2025 - Beneficiaries of international protection & asylum-seekers - Preliminary analysis","body":"The SEIS is a collaborative process which identifies the most pressing needs of beneficiaries of international protection and asylum-seekers across various sectors. Comprehensive and accurate data is gathered to guide the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and interventions aimed at addressing those needs. The 2025 SEIS presents results on:\n\n\u25aa the needs of beneficiaries of international protection and asylum-seekers in Bulgaria, focusing on the in-country population;\n\n\u25aa the level of socio-economic integration and access to national systems;\n\n\u25aa Service gaps and priorities for the coming year.\n\n\u25aa Identifying changing trends in the needs of beneficiaries of international protection and asylum-seekers","country":[{"id":45,"name":"Bulgaria","shortname":"Bulgaria","iso3":"bgr","location":{"lat":42.76,"lon":25.23},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:03:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213026","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNAMA Statement on Afghanistan\u2019s De Facto Authorities\u2019 Decree No. 18 on the \u201cCode on Judicial Separation of Spouses\u201d | United Nations Peace Operations","body":"**KABUL** - The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) expresses grave concern over the promulgation of Decree No. 18 by Afghanistan\u2019s *de facto* authorities. The Decree, which codifies principles governing the separation of spouses, represents another step in the erosion of Afghan women and girls\u2019 rights and further entrenches systemic discrimination in law and practice.\n\nThe gazetted Decree, published by the *de facto* Ministry of Justice on 14 May 2026, establishes grounds on which women may petition for judicial separation. It operates in a deeply unequal framework: while men retain the unilateral right to divorce, women must pursue complex and restrictive judicial avenues to separate from a spouse. This situation reinforces structural discrimination and limits women\u2019s autonomy in matters fundamental to their dignity, safety, and wellbeing.\n\n\u201cDecree No. 18 is part of a broader and deeply concerning trajectory in which the rights of Afghan women and girls are being eroded,\u201d said Georgette Gagnon, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Officer-in-Charge of UNAMA.\n\n\u201cThe Decree further institutionalizes discrimination and, when combined with restrictions on girls\u2019 education and women\u2019s public participation, entrenches a system in which Afghan women and girls are denied autonomy, opportunity, and access to justice,\u201d Ms. Gagnon said.\n\nUNAMA notes that Decree No. 18 must be viewed within a broader context of measures affecting women\u2019s rights since the *de facto* authorities\u2019 takeover in 2021. An initial decree in December 2021 (\u201cSpecial Decree on Women\u2019s Rights\u201d) recognized certain rights for women, including women\u2019s consent to marriage and inheritance. However, successive decrees have undermined these protections, restricting women\u2019s autonomy before, during, and after marriage.\n\nFor example, Decree No. 12 (2026) introduced limited judicial intervention within marriage but only in cases where women are severely beaten, with a penalty of 15-days imprisonment for husbands convicted of serious abuse.\n\nThese measures, with bans on girls\u2019 secondary and higher education and restrictions to women\u2019s access to work, have deprived millions of Afghan women and girls of their right to education, weakened economic participation, and deepened poverty, with long-term consequences for Afghanistan\u2019s development. Within this context, Decree No. 18 compounds existing inequalities by limiting women\u2019s agency in marriage, separation, and access to justice.\n\nOf particular concern is the impact on girls. The Decree, by devoting a chapter on separation for girls who reach puberty and who are married, implies that child marriage is permitted. It also allows for a girl\u2019s silence as she reaches puberty to be interpreted as consent to a marriage. This undermines the principle of free and full consent and failing to safeguard the best interests of the child.\n\nAccess to justice for women is severely constrained. Women face procedural ambiguity, limited accessibility, and discrimination, and may be directed toward informal mechanisms that do not guarantee fairness or non-discrimination. The Decree\u2019s silence on protections against domestic violence further risks keeping women in abusive relationships.\n\nUNAMA reiterates that Afghanistan is bound by its international human rights obligations, including commitments to eliminate discrimination against women and protect the rights of the child. UNAMA calls on the *de facto* authorities to align their laws, policies and practices with international standards, including safeguarding consent to marriage, eliminating child marriage, ensuring access to justice, and protecting the rights and dignity of all individuals.","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213027","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Bulgaria: Socio-Economic Insights Survey June - November 2025 - Refugees from Ukraine - Preliminary findings","body":"The SEIS is a collaborative process which identifies the most pressing needs of refugees across various sectors. Comprehensive and accurate data is gathered to guide the planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and interventions aimed at addressing those needs. The 2025 SEIS provides crucial results on:\n\n\u25aa the needs of refugees from Ukraine in Bulgaria, focusing on the in-country refugee population;\n\n\u25aa the level of socio-economic integration and access to national systems;\n\n\u25aa service gaps and refugees\u2019 priorities for the coming year.\n\n\u25aa identifying changing trends in refugees needs","country":[{"id":45,"name":"Bulgaria","shortname":"Bulgaria","iso3":"bgr","location":{"lat":42.76,"lon":25.23},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T08:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213021","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: After Action Review - Eastern Region Earthquake Response (21 May 2026)","body":"A 6+ magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan on 31 August 2025, followed by multiple aftershocks in the days that followed. The earthquake primarily affected Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, causing [fatalities](https:\/\/unama.unmissions.org\/en\/statement-secretary-general-deadly-earthquake-eastern-afghanistan), injuries, widespread damage to homes and public infrastructure, displacement and major disruption in remote mountainous areas.\n\nThe humanitarian response was implemented in an extremely constrained physical access environment characterized by landslides, damaged roads, difficult terrain, recurring aftershocks, weak telecommunications including a 48-hour nationwide outage, winter onset, and restrictions affecting Afghan women staff access to UN compounds. Despite these conditions, humanitarian actors mounted a large-scale emergency response that delivered life-saving assistance rapidly and at significant scale. Rapid donor funding, including an emergency [Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF) allocation](https:\/\/cerf.un.org\/what-we-do\/allocation\/2025\/summary\/CERF-AFG-25-RR-1484) complemented by a reserve allocation by the [Afghanistan Humanitarian Fund (AHF),](https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/publications\/report\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-humanitarian-update-february-2026) together with early resource mobilization efforts, notably the [EU Humanitarian Air Bridge (EUHAB),](https:\/\/civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu\/what\/humanitarian-aid\/eu-humanitarian-air-bridge_en) which operated five humanitarian cargo shipments between 19 and 29 September 2025, were widely viewed by responders as critical enablers of the response. [A detailed infographic timeline of the response is included in the annex](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/#Timeline1)*.*\n\nFollowing the conclusion of the response, the Inter-Cluster Coordination Team (ICCT) initiated an After-Action Review (AAR) to assess the humanitarian response to the 31 August 2025 eastern region earthquake across Nangarhar and Kunar provinces. The review examined operational coordination, response delivery, information management, logistics, access and accountability arrangements through document review, operational data analysis, key informant interviews, focus group discussions and field consultations with humanitarian actors, de facto authorities (DfA) and affected communities, including dedicated consultations with Afghan women responders and women from affected communities. Conducted between January and March 2026, including a field mission to Jalalabad and affected districts in February, this report presents the main findings, lessons learned and recommendations emerging from the AAR.\n\nBy January, [more than 300,000 people had received assistance](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/afghanistan\/afghanistan-eastern-region-earthquake-response-overview-29-january-2026), including over 230,000 people in priority districts including Chawkay, Khas Kunar and Nurgal in Kunar Province and Dara-e-Nur in Nangarhar. Stakeholders consistently described the eastern region earthquake response as an improvement over the 2023 Herat earthquake response, characterizing it as faster, more organized, and better coordinated in delivering immediate assistance. Some lessons from previous emergency responses appeared to have been internalized and translated into stronger operational readiness.\n\nHowever, the review also identified persistent structural gaps. The most significant early constraint was not a lack of humanitarian capacity, but the limited operational readiness of first 72-hour activation and sequencing arrangements needed to turn preparedness plans into immediate field action. While contingency planning had intended to frontload key operational decisions, some elements were re-discussed and partially re-developed during the initial response phase, contributing to avoidable delays. Several stakeholders also noted that early planning figures generated through the Disaster Impact Model (DIM) were constrained by outdated shelter typology data and inaccuracies in modelled earthquake intensity data, limiting confidence in projected damage estimates during the initial phase of the response.\n\nA second and equally important finding is that while the humanitarian system proved increasingly capable of scaling relief assistance, the transition toward recovery and resilience support once acute needs began to stabilize was slow with various degrees of uptake from Basic Human Needs (BHN) actors. Across interviews, focus groups, field teams and coordination actors, respondents repeatedly emphasized the need for earlier pivoting toward:\n\n- emergency shelter repair and reconstruction\n- debris clearance and road repairs\n- restoration of water systems\n- livelihoods recovery\n- winter resilience\n\n*The draft Final Evaluation of the Herat Post-Earthquake Recovery Response Project Under the Special Trust Fund for Afghanistan* reinforces that earthquake response effectiveness should not be assessed solely through the speed and scale of immediate relief delivery, but also on how early, and at what scale, recovery, resilience and longer-term service restoration activities are operationalized within the response.\n\nAccording to the evaluation, in Herat, the integrated multi-agency Joint Programme implemented by participating UN agencies supported shelter recovery, infrastructure rehabilitation, livelihoods assistance and community action planning, contributing to high satisfaction of people served, improved perceptions of safety and stronger recovery outcomes among assisted households compared with control groups. At the same time, the evaluation highlights continuing challenges related to long-term sustainability, including financing gaps, market access constraints and the difficulty of sustaining recovery gains without continued support.\n\nThese findings reinforce the importance of strengthening the transition between emergency response, early recovery and longer-term resilience support. While the system increasingly understands the requirements for emergency response and recovery-oriented programming, experiences from both the Herat and the eastern region earthquake responses suggest that further work is needed to ensure financing arrangements, implementation modalities and coordination mechanisms can support timelier and more predictable scaled recovery transitions.\n\nDuring AAR field visits, the team observed a range of BHN interventions across affected communities. However, community members, local DfA and humanitarian staff consistently indicated that ongoing support remained insufficient relative to the scale of recovery and reconstruction needs, particularly highlighting the importance of livelihoods support and income-generating opportunities to support longer-term self-reliance.\n\n**This review concludes that Afghanistan\u2019s disaster response capacity has measurably strengthened since the 2023 Herat earthquake response. Future improvements will depend not only on rapid emergency scale-up, but also on more executable preparedness systems, stronger anticipatory planning assumptions, and faster scaled transition from relief to recovery, the latter constituting a shared responsibility among humanitarian and BHN partners.**","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T07:19:47+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213020","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Situation Report - Sri Lanka 21st May 2026 at 1000hrs","country":[{"id":219,"name":"Sri Lanka","shortname":"Sri Lanka","iso3":"lka","location":{"lat":7.61,"lon":80.7},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Disaster Management Centre of Sri Lanka"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T07:00:06+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213019","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Appui \u00e0 la lutte contre Ebola : la MONUSCO mobilise sa logistique a\u00e9rienne, pr\u00e8s de 30 tonnes d\u2019\u00e9quipements d\u00e9j\u00e0 achemin\u00e9es vers Bunia","body":"Depuis la d\u00e9claration officielle de la 17\u1d49 \u00e9pid\u00e9mie d\u2019Ebola en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, le samedi 16 mai 2026, la riposte s\u2019intensifie dans la province de l\u2019Ituri. La MONUSCO a rapidement mobilis\u00e9 sa flotte a\u00e9rienne afin d\u2019appuyer les autorit\u00e9s congolaises et les agences des Nations Unies engag\u00e9es dans la lutte contre cette maladie.\n\n**Un pont a\u00e9rien pour acheminer les \u00e9quipements d\u2019urgence**\n\nD\u00e8s le lundi 17 mai, environ 5 tonnes de mat\u00e9riel m\u00e9dical d\u2019urgence sont arriv\u00e9es \u00e0 Bunia en provenance de Nairobi (Kenya), gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 un affr\u00e8tement de l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9 (OMS). Cette cargaison comprenait notamment :\n\n- Des \u00e9quipements de protection individuelle (EPI),\n- Des fournitures de laboratoire,\n- Des m\u00e9dicaments,\n- Ainsi que des tentes pour la prise en charge des patients.\n\nParall\u00e8lement, quatre v\u00e9hicules et deux motos ont \u00e9t\u00e9 transport\u00e9s \u00e0 Bunia depuis Goma (Nord-Kivu) et Entebbe (Ouganda), renfor\u00e7ant les capacit\u00e9s logistiques sur le terrain.\n\nLe mercredi 20 mai, 11 tonnes suppl\u00e9mentaires de mat\u00e9riel de riposte sont arriv\u00e9es par vols de la MONUSCO en provenance de Kinshasa et de Nairobi.\n\nEn seulement quatre jours, pr\u00e8s de 30 tonnes d\u2019\u00e9quipements ont \u00e9t\u00e9 achemin\u00e9es vers Bunia, illustrant l\u2019ampleur de la mobilisation logistique.\n\n**Un appui multiforme au-del\u00e0 de la logistique**\n\nL\u2019intervention de la MONUSCO ne se limite pas au transport de mat\u00e9riel. Sur le terrain, les Casques bleus \u2014 militaires, policiers et composantes civiles \u2014 intensifient les actions de sensibilisation des populations.\n\n\u00c0 Tchabi, dans le territoire d\u2019Irumu (\u00e0 environ 120 km de Bunia), des dizaines de personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 sensibilis\u00e9es le 18 mai aux mesures essentielles de pr\u00e9vention, notamment : l\u2019hygi\u00e8ne personnelle, et les risques li\u00e9s \u00e0 la consommation de viande de brousse.\n\nLe lendemain, une campagne similaire a \u00e9t\u00e9 men\u00e9e \u00e0 Fataki, aupr\u00e8s des personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es et des communaut\u00e9s locales.\n\n\u00c0 l\u2019aide de haut-parleurs, les \u00e9quipes ont insist\u00e9 sur : le lavage r\u00e9gulier des mains, l\u2019utilisation correcte des \u00e9quipements de protection, ou encore la reconnaissance des sympt\u00f4mes de la maladie.\n\nCes initiatives visent \u00e0 renforcer la pr\u00e9paration des communaut\u00e9s, r\u00e9duire la panique et prot\u00e9ger les populations vuln\u00e9rables, en ligne avec le mandat de protection des civils de la MONUSCO.\n\n**Une situation sanitaire pr\u00e9occupante**\n\nSelon les donn\u00e9es officielles au 18 mai 2026 :\n\n- 457 cas suspects ont \u00e9t\u00e9 recens\u00e9s en Ituri (Bunia, Rwampara, Mungwalu et Nyakunde),\n- 33 d\u00e9c\u00e8s r\u00e9cents, dont 4 confirm\u00e9s positifs,\n- et un total de 131 d\u00e9c\u00e8s cumul\u00e9s depuis le d\u00e9but de l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie.\n\n\u00c0 ce stade, aucun traitement sp\u00e9cifique ni vaccin n\u2019est disponible contre cette nouvelle souche du virus.\n\n**Des mesures de pr\u00e9vention essentielles**\n\nEn attendant des avanc\u00e9es m\u00e9dicales, les autorit\u00e9s sanitaires appellent les populations \u00e0 respecter strictement les mesures de pr\u00e9vention :\n\n- Se laver r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement les mains avec des solutions d\u00e9sinfectantes,\n- Eviter les contacts physiques,\n- S\u2019abstenir de consommer de la viande de brousse,\n- Eviter les rassemblements,\n- Signaler tout cas suspect aux autorit\u00e9s sanitaires,\n- Eviter tout contact avec les fluides corporels de personnes potentiellement infect\u00e9es.\n\n**Jean-Tobie Okala**","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T06:33:30+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213018","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Pakistan - Market Monitor Report - April 2026","body":"**HIGHLIGHTS April**\n\n- The **Consumer Price Index (CPI)-based annual headline inflation increased to 10.9 percent (YoY),** up from 7.3 percent in March. On a month-on-month basis the **CPI** **is up by 2.5 percent,** in April compared to March, reflecting higher transport and perishable food costs.\n- **Annual food inflation increased by 7.6 percent (YoY) compared to April 2025,** indicating that households paid nearly 8 percent more for food items - impacting food expenditure, especially for poor households.\n- **Prices of wheat and wheat flour in April were slightly lower** compared to March, while rice prices largely remained stable with marginal decreases, reflecting adequate supply conditions.\n- Compared to the previous month, the terms-of trade (ToT) improved by 4 percent, meaning that an unskilled daily wage earner\u2019s wage could purchase marginally more wheat flour (12.3 kgs) in April than in March (11.8 kg), offering some relief.","country":[{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T06:28:19+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213017","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola response support: MONUSCO airlifts nearly 30 tons of equipment to Bunia","body":"Following the official declaration of the 17th Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on May 16, 2026, response efforts have intensified in Ituri province. MONUSCO has rapidly deployed its air assets to support the Congolese government and United Nations agencies involved in combating the disease.\n\n**Air bridge delivers critical emergency supplies**\n\nOn May 17, approximately 5 tons of emergency medical supplies arrived in Bunia from Nairobi, Kenya, through a World Health Organization (WHO)-chartered flight. The cargo included:\n\n- personal protective equipment (PPE),\n- laboratory supplies,\n- medicines,\n- and tents for patient care.\n\nIn addition, four vehicles and two motorcycles were transported to Bunia from Goma (North Kivu) and Entebbe (Uganda), strengthening logistics on the ground.\n\nOn May 20, an additional 11 tons of Ebola response materials were delivered via MONUSCO flights from Kinshasa and Nairobi.\n\nIn just four days, nearly 30 20 tons of supplies have been airlifted to Bunia, highlighting the scale of the logistical response.\n\n**Comprehensive support beyond logistics**\n\nMONUSCO\u2019s response extends beyond logistics. Peacekeepers \u2014 military, police, and civilian components \u2014 are actively conducting community awareness campaigns.\n\nIn Tchabi, in the Irumu territory (about 120 km from Bunia), dozens of residents were sensitized on May 18 about key preventive measures, including:\n\n- personal hygiene,\n- risks associated with bushmeat consumption.\n\nOn May 19, similar outreach efforts were conducted in Fataki, targeting internally displaced persons and local communities.\n\nUsing loudspeakers, teams emphasized: regular handwashing, proper use of protective equipment, recognition of Ebola symptoms.\n\nThese initiatives aim to enhance community preparedness, reduce panic, and protect vulnerable populations, in line with MONUSCO\u2019s civilian protection mandate.\n\n**A concerning health situation**\n\nAccording to official data as of May 18, 2026:\n\n- 457 suspected cases have been recorded in Ituri,\n- 33 recent deaths, including 4 confirmed cases,\n- and a total of 131 deaths since the outbreak began.\n\nAt present, there is no specific treatment or vaccine available for this new Ebola strain.\n\n**Key preventive measures**\n\nPending medical breakthroughs, health authorities urge communities to strictly adhere to preventive measures:\n\n- frequent handwashing with disinfectants,\n- avoiding physical contact,\n- refraining from consuming bushmeat,\n- avoiding crowded places,\n- reporting suspected cases immediately,\n- avoiding contact with bodily fluids of potentially infected individuals.\n\n**Jean-Tobie Okala**","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T06:25:45+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213015","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Sudan Emergency: Population movements from Sudan (18 May, 2026)","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true},{"id":54,"name":"Central African Republic","shortname":"CAR","iso3":"caf","location":{"lat":6.57,"lon":20.48}},{"id":55,"name":"Chad","shortname":"Chad","iso3":"tcd","location":{"lat":15.36,"lon":18.66}},{"id":82,"name":"Egypt","shortname":"Egypt","iso3":"egy","location":{"lat":26.49,"lon":29.87}},{"id":140,"name":"Libya","shortname":"Libya","iso3":"lby","location":{"lat":27.04,"lon":18.02}},{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5}},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T06:03:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213013","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Lebanon Cash Working Group: Situation Report #2 (Reporting period: 15 April to 15 May 2026)","body":"**Situation Overview**\n\nRenewed hostilities since early March 2026 have significantly aggravated humanitarian needs across Lebanon, triggering mass internal displacement now affecting more than one million people. Against this backdrop, the 2026 Flash Appeal (March\u2013May) seeks USD 308.3 million to address urgent needs, yet funding levels remain critically insufficient, with overall coverage below 40 per cent. Cash-based responses, particularly MPCA, are among the most underfunded components, limiting the response\u2019s ability to keep pace with the scale, diversity, and geographic spread of needs.\n\nDespite access and security constraints, local markets continue to operate in most displacement-affected areas, including major IDP-hosting locations. This reality reinforces the operational relevance of cash assistance, which the Cash Working Group (CWG) continues to prioritize as the most appropriate response modality where markets are functional, supporting choice, flexibility, and efficient delivery at scale.\n\nFor displaced households living outside shelters, cash assistance plays a critical role in covering a wide range of essential expenditures, including housing, food, healthcare, transport, and disability-related needs, while also reducing exposure to high-risk coping strategies. These needs are particularly acute in hard-to-reach and high-risk areas, including parts of southern Lebanon. However, the persistent under-resourcing of cash assistance highlights the need for greater financing flexibility, improved alignment across sectors, and stronger collective prioritization to ensure assistance reaches those most in need in a timely and predictable manner.","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T05:03:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213012","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak: Democratic Republic of the Congo | Uganda, Weekly External Situation Report 01 (Data as of 18 May 2026)","body":"## Event description\n\nOn 5 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) received an alert regarding an unknown illness with high mortality in Mongbwalu Health Zone (HZ), Ituri Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including reports of four health workers who died within four days. Rapid response teams deployed to Mongbwalu and Rwampara HZs conducted investigations, and on 15 May 2026, laboratory testing by the Institut National de la Recherche Biom\u00e9dicale (INRB), Kinshasa confirmed Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) caused by Bundibugyo virus. On the same day, the Ministry of Public Health, Hygiene and Social Welfare of DRC officially declared the country\u2019s 17th Ebola disease outbreak, initially affecting Rwampara, Mongbwalu and Bunia HZs. Uganda subsequently confirmed two imported cases on 15 and 16 May 2026. On 16 May 2026, the WHO Director-General determined that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) under the International Health Regulations (2005).","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T04:05:28+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213011","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Mayon Volcano Summary of 24Hr Observation 21 May 2026 12:00 AM [EN\/TL]","country":[{"id":188,"name":"Philippines","shortname":"Philippines","iso3":"phl","location":{"lat":11.74,"lon":122.88},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T04:03:40+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213008","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UK steps up support to stop spread of Ebola in eastern DRC","body":"**The UK has announced up to \u00a320 million to support communities affected by the deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo**\n\n- Up to \u00a320 million of new UK aid funding to help contain the recent outbreak of Ebola in Eastern DRC.\n- Funding will support a DRC-led response to protect frontline responders and local communities.\n- UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to co-chair ministerial group to coordinate Government response.\n\nThe UK has allocated up to \u00a320 million in new funding to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The funding will help the World Health Organisation, UN, international and NGO partners respond rapidly to the outbreak by strengthening disease surveillance, supporting frontline health workers, improving infection prevention and control, and helping affected communities access lifesaving care.\n\nMost confirmed cases are in the Ituri region of eastern DRC \u2013 a region already facing significant humanitarian and security challenges.\n\nAlongside this funding, UK humanitarian partners are already responding to contain the outbreak. The UK has been working with leading international humanitarian organisations to contain the outbreak. Through the Strategic Assistance for Emergency Response (SAFER) consortium, the UK is pivoting funding to improve water, sanitation and hygiene systems, ensuring frontline responders and local communities have vital personal protective equipment, and strengthening Ebola containment measures.\n\nThe UK is also refocusing efforts to protect maternity facilities and support civil society organisations to strengthen prevention and control, and mitigate the risk of increased birth complications and sexual violence during the outbreak.\n\nToday \\[21st May\\] the Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care chaired a cross-government meeting to coordinate the UK\u2019s response to the outbreak, including how to protect British nationals overseas and work with international partners.\n\n## **UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said:**\n\n> It is vital we act now to save lives \u2013 outbreaks like Ebola do not stop at borders, and neither can we.\n> \n> This outbreak is a stark reminder that global health threats require a global response. The UK is working hand-in-hand with partners \u2013 boosting much needed funding but also sharing our technical expertise, to contain the outbreak, protect our security, and support those most at risk.\n> \n> The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) is assessing routes by which travellers enter the UK from the affected countries and will be working with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Department for Transport, and Border Force to ensure information is available to them on Ebola symptoms and how to access healthcare if unwell. The UK has updated its travel advice and advises against all but essential travel to some parts of the DRC.\n\nAdditionally, UKHSA has activated the Returning Workers Scheme, which aims to protect and monitor the health of individuals travelling from the UK to affected areas for their work. Organisations deploying workers to affected areas where they may be exposed to Ebola through their work should register those workers with the scheme.\n\n## **Dr Mike Reynolds, Incident Director at UKHSA, said:**\n\n> While the current outbreak of Ebola affecting the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is serious, the risk it poses to the UK population is low. UKHSA continues to monitor and assess the situation closely and the NHS has safe procedures in place for any such cases and specialist centres where they can be looked after.\n> \n> The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team stands ready to activate should requests for support be received from the DRC or Ugandan government, WHO, or other partners involved in response on the ground.\n\nENDS\n\n## **Notes to editors**\n\n- UK travel advice can be found [here](https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fforeign-travel-advice%2Fdemocratic-republic-of-the-congo&data=05%7C02%7CFlo.Hutchings%40fcdo.gov.uk%7C61d51772b2784ec6513b08deb69a1f8f%7Cd3a2d0d37cc84f52bbf985bd43d94279%7C0%7C0%7C639148970366466866%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=R88%2FKH0T%2FBvlH5Fjmc%2FF8jLwra2Rx7jeVSwTx7nEHXY%3D&reserved=0)\n- Further information on the Returning Workers Scheme can be found [here](https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fguidance%2Febola-returning-workers-scheme&data=05%7C02%7CFlo.Hutchings%40fcdo.gov.uk%7C61d51772b2784ec6513b08deb69a1f8f%7Cd3a2d0d37cc84f52bbf985bd43d94279%7C0%7C0%7C639148970366493313%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=yJtJiZfU7FdbkjJDNuGh6zcrUbDxCdwYknXLOjeIvyc%3D&reserved=0).\n- The UK has been a long-standing partner to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, consistently supported the government to strengthen its health system and respond to high-risk disease outbreaks.\n- This includes targeted support through the Supporting Health Emergency Response in DRC (SHER) programme, which has provided over \u00a318m since 2024 to support the governments national response to Ebola, Mpox and cholera in partnership with organisations such as WHO and UNICEF and supported the rapid response to containing the Ebola outbreak in Bulape in 2025.\n- The UK makes significant contributions to multilateral health initiatives such as the Global Fund, Gavi, UNFPA and the World Bank, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, as well as UK-led global health programmes to build resilience in the national health system.\n- The UK is working with authorities in DRC and Uganda, WHO, and international partners to fund and accelerate research on vaccines, treatments, and diagnostics.\n\nMedia enquiries\n\nEmail newsdesk@fcdo.gov.uk\n\nTelephone 020 7008 3100\n\nEmail the FCDO Newsdesk (monitored 24 hours a day) in the first instance, and we will respond as soon as possible.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":243,"name":"United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland","shortname":"UK","iso3":"gbr","location":{"lat":52.58,"lon":-1.43}}],"source":[{"name":"Government of the United Kingdom"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T04:01:56+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213007","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cl\u00faster Salud Informe de Situaci\u00f3n No. 2 (Marzo - Abril 2026)","body":"*Estado de situaci\u00f3n*\n\nDurante el per\u00edodo comprendido entre marzo y abril, se observa una din\u00e1mica activa de eventos de salud p\u00fablica en la Regi\u00f3n de las Am\u00e9ricas, incidencias recientes o sostenidas en eventos como tosferina, fiebre amarilla y Mpox, junto con la circulaci\u00f3n estacional de influenza y virus sincitial respiratorio (VSR), lo que genera una presi\u00f3n adicional sobre los sistemas de salud. Informaci\u00f3n de inter\u00e9s e importancia para Venezuela. Este escenario resalta la necesidad de mantener un enfoque integrado de vigilancia, preparaci\u00f3n y respuesta, protecci\u00f3n de poblaciones vulnerables y la coordinaci\u00f3n intersectorial para mitigar el impacto sanitario.\n\n**Alertas sanitarias regionales**\n\n *Actualizaci\u00f3n epidemiol\u00f3gica: Influenza aviar A(H5N1) en la Regi\u00f3n de las Am\u00e9ricas, 11 de marzo del 2026*: La influenza aviar A(H5N1) es una zoonosis altamente pat\u00f3gena que afecta principalmente aves, con infecciones humanas espor\u00e1dicas asociadas a exposici\u00f3n a animales infectados. Desde 2021, el virus clado 2.3.4.4b, influenza aviar altamente pat\u00f3gena (IAAP1), se ha expandido globalmente en mam\u00edferos y generando implicaciones para la salud p\u00fablica, la seguridad alimentaria y la biodiversidad. Entre la SE 2 de 2022 y la SE 9 de 2026, 21 pa\u00edses\/territorios de las Am\u00e9ricas notificaron 5.744 brotes en animales. En 2026 (hasta SE 9) se registraron 105 brotes en aves en seis pa\u00edses, 95 brotes en aves dom\u00e9sticas con mayor concentraci\u00f3n en Estados Unidos (83), seguido por Canad\u00e1 (6), Argentina (5), Brasil (1)Chile; y 10 brotes en aves silvestres en Uruguay (6), Argentina (3) y chile (1). En diciembre de 2025 se reportaron brotes en Brasil y Colombia, evidenciando circulaci\u00f3n en Sudam\u00e9rica. No se notificaron brotes en mam\u00edferos en 2026 hasta la SE 9, aunque persisten detecciones aisladas en Estados Unidos y Canad\u00e1.\n\nEntre 2022 y el 9 de marzo de 2026 se confirmaron 75 casos humanos de A(H5N1) (2 defunciones) en cinco pa\u00edses, principalmente en Estados Unidos (71 casos). No se reportan nuevos casos humanos desde noviembre de 2025.\n\nLa OPS considera que el riesgo para la poblaci\u00f3n general es bajo; el riesgo es mayor en personas con exposici\u00f3n ocupacional a animales infectados. No hay evidencia de transmisi\u00f3n sostenida persona a persona.\n\nDesde la OPS se recomienda fortalecer la vigilancia integrada humano-animal, implementar medidas de bioseguridad en poblaciones con mayor riesgo de exposici\u00f3n, incluidos trabajadores de producci\u00f3n av\u00edcola, veterinarios, trabajadores de salud y personal de laboratorio y uso de EPP. Notificar inmediatamente casos sospechosos bajo el RSI. 1","country":[{"id":250,"name":"Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)","shortname":"Venezuela","iso3":"ven","location":{"lat":7.62,"lon":-65.8},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Health Cluster"},{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T03:49:37+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213006","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cl\u00faster Salud Informe de Situaci\u00f3n No. 1 (Enero - Febrero 2026)","body":"*Estado de situaci\u00f3n*\n\nDurante el per\u00edodo comprendido entre enero y febrero, los socios de salud emitieron diversas orientaciones y recomendaciones t\u00e9cnicas. Estas directrices se basaron en la situaci\u00f3n epidemiol\u00f3gica de eventos de inter\u00e9s e importancia en salud p\u00fablica para Venezuela, considerando su influencia en la regi\u00f3n de las Am\u00e9ricas.\n\n**Alerta epidemiol\u00f3gica Circulaci\u00f3n simult\u00e1nea de influenza estacional y** **virus sincitial respiratorio (VSR) 9 de enero del 2026:**\n\nA nivel global, desde octubre de 2025 se registra un aumento de la actividad de influenza, con predominio del subtipo influenza A(H3N2). En la Regi\u00f3n de las Am\u00e9ricas, la positividad para influenza se mantiene por encima del 10% en el Hemisferio Norte, con circulaci\u00f3n heterog\u00e9nea entre subregiones. Predomina A(H3N2) en la mayor\u00eda de las subregiones, mientras que en la subregi\u00f3n Andina predomina A(H1N1) pdm09. Se notifican incrementos sostenidos en Am\u00e9rica del Norte y Central, y niveles cercanos al 20% en pa\u00edses del Caribe.\n\nLa circulaci\u00f3n de VSR permanece baja a nivel regional, con se\u00f1ales iniciales de aumento, principalmente asociadas a ni\u00f1os menores de cinco a\u00f1os y adultos de 65 a\u00f1os y m\u00e1s.  \nBrasil, a presentado una temporada previa bimodal sin aumento consistente de gravedad, mientras que Guyana y Surinam, fueron incluidos en la vigilancia agregada.\n\nSe considera que el riesgo regional es moderado, asociado al inicio temprano y la intensidad de la influenza, sumado al aumento progresivo del VSR. Los principales grupos en riesgo son adultos mayores, ni\u00f1os menores de cinco a\u00f1os, personas con comorbilidades, mujeres embarazadas y trabajadores de la salud.\n\nLa OPS\/OMS recomienda reforzar la vigilancia integrada de influenza, VSR y otros virus respiratorios (ETI e IRAG\/SARI), con reporte semanal a FluNet y FluID; mantener la caracterizaci\u00f3n virol\u00f3gica; fortalecer la preparaci\u00f3n de los servicios de salud; asegurar la vacunaci\u00f3n estacional contra influenza en grupos prioritarios; y reforzar las medidas de prevenci\u00f3n y control de infecciones y la comunicaci\u00f3n de riesgo, especialmente relevantes para la subregi\u00f3n andina y el Caribe","country":[{"id":250,"name":"Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)","shortname":"Venezuela","iso3":"ven","location":{"lat":7.62,"lon":-65.8},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Health Cluster"},{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T03:45:45+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213005","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Zimbabwe - Food Security and Markets Monitoring Report, April 2026","body":"## Situation Overview\n\nZimbabwe\u2019s food security situation showed improved national production prospects following above-normal rainfall, which supported crop performance, pasture availability, and livestock conditions. National cereal production is projected at 2.74 million MT (CLAFA 2, 2026), with maize output increasing by 2% compared to the previous season.\n\nHowever, significant district-level disparities persist, with areas such as Mutare, Buhera, Chivi, and Beitbridge expected to face cereal deficits and shorter food stock durations. Markets reflected mixed trends, with easing prices for some staples such as maize meal, while rice, sugar beans, and vegetable oil continued to rise. Fuel prices remained elevated despite government interventions aimed at cushioning consumers.\n\nLivestock conditions were generally fair to good due to improved water and grazing availability, but outbreaks of tick-borne diseases, Lumpy Skin Disease, and Foot and Mouth Disease continued to threaten livestock productivity, particularly in southern districts where access to vaccines and treatment remained limited.","country":[{"id":257,"name":"Zimbabwe","shortname":"Zimbabwe","iso3":"zwe","location":{"lat":-19.19,"lon":29.94},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T03:40:44+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213004","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Why violence against women is a climate crisis","body":"## [**Alison Davidian**](https:\/\/devpolicy.org\/author\/alison-davidian\/)\n\n## [**Ralph Regenvanu**](https:\/\/devpolicy.org\/author\/ralph-regenvanu\/)\n\nAt the end of April 2026, [Cyclones Maila and Vaianu](https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/international\/pacific-news\/591634\/severe-tropical-cyclones-maila-and-vaianu-put-solomon-islands-png-and-fiji-on-alert) were active across the South Pacific at the same time, hitting Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Fiji and stretching weather services and emergency teams thin as they tried to manage both events at once. This is what Pacific women are living through. The storms themselves usually pass within hours. For some women, the danger does not.\n\nEvacuation centres have become a familiar refuge in the Pacific, and a familiar danger. Families sleep side by side on classroom floors. Privacy disappears and tensions rise. For a woman experiencing violence, the options narrow quickly. The road to the police station is damaged. Clinics are closed or overwhelmed. Phone networks are down. The systems meant to protect her are out of reach.\n\nCommunity leaders, church groups and women-led organisations work under enormous pressure to keep families safe in these centres. Without proper resources, training and design standards that build in privacy and protection, good intentions are not enough, and the burden continues to fall heavily on frontline actors.\n\nAt the same time, ministries responsible for women\u2019s affairs across the Pacific are increasingly recognising violence against women and girls as a cross-cutting issue, including in the context of climate change and action. They are working to strengthen coordinated, multi-sector responses that bring together police, health, justice and social services, and are beginning to integrate prevention into wider resilience and climate adaptation efforts.\n\nWhile this shift is significant, these ministries cannot do this on their own. They are chronically underfunded, and as climate impacts intensify, the pressure on national systems will only grow. If climate responses are going to deliver resilient and sustainable futures, governments and development partners need to invest in the systems that keep women and girls safe, alongside the roads, seawalls and renewable energy.\n\nWhen disaster hits a small island community, the damage extends well beyond flooded roads and broken infrastructure. The social fabric that keeps people safe is disrupted. Overcrowded shelters, economic stress and weakened services all increase risks for women and girls, but those risks are rarely picked up in loss and damage assessments or climate financing decisions. Losses are counted in damaged buildings, destroyed crops and kilometres of coastline eroded. The violence women experience in the aftermath usually goes uncaptured.\n\nThe Pacific records some of the highest rates of violence against women in the world. [Prevalence studies](https:\/\/www.philippines.unfpa.org\/en\/publications\/snapshot-women-who-experience-intimate-partner-violence-asia-pacific-2000-2023) show high lifetime rates of intimate partner violence, with up to 64% of women experiencing physical or sexual violence by a partner. What makes the Pacific particularly stark is how widely that violence is accepted. [In Samoa](https:\/\/sdd.spc.int\/digital_library\/samoa-demographic-and-health-survey-dhs-2014), 37% of women and 30% of men believe a man is justified in hitting his partner in at least one circumstance. [In the Marshall Islands](https:\/\/sdd.spc.int\/digital_library\/marshall-islands-demographic-and-health-survey-dhs-2007), the figures are 56% of women and 58% of men. [In the Solomon Islands](https:\/\/sdd.spc.int\/digital_library\/solomon-islands-demographic-and-health-survey-dhs-2015), 77% of women and 57% of men agree. Where violence is this normalised, additional pressure from economic stress, displacement or overcrowding does not just add to the risk. It accelerates it.\n\nClimate shocks are exactly that kind of pressure. [Research from Kiribati\u2019s Strengthening Peaceful Villages](https:\/\/asiapacific.unwomen.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-09\/SPV%20FollowUpReport_for%20UNW%20April2024%20-%20FINAL.pdf) program looked at the 2020 drought and found a clear link between climate-related male income loss and intimate partner violence. 41% of men who had perpetrated intimate partner violence in the past year [also reported reduced earnings](https:\/\/asiapacific.unwomen.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-09\/SPV%20FollowUpReport_for%20UNW%20April2024%20-%20FINAL.pdf). When patriarchal norms position men as breadwinners and climate change makes that role harder to fulfil, men\u2019s mental health suffers and the risk of violence against partners rises.\n\n[Evidence from Samoa](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjph-2024-001088) shows climate shocks also make it harder for women to leave violent relationships. Women who had lived through two or three disaster events had more than twice the odds of experiencing intimate partner violence in the past 12 months. For those who had lived through four or more, the odds were over eight times higher. The cumulative weight of these shocks wore down women\u2019s mental health and, with it, their ability to seek help or leave.\n\nVanuatu tells a similar story. Cyclones, extreme rainfall and flooding are no longer rare. They arrive almost every year, often before households have recovered from the last one. For women already facing violence, the cycle of shock and recovery keeps them stuck in unsafe homes and shelters, with fewer options each time. The recently launched [Second National Survey on Women\u2019s Lives and Family Relationships](https:\/\/www.vanuatuwomenscentre.org\/vwc-second-national-survey-launch-9-march-2026\/) sets out what intimate partner violence looks like during an emergency. One in two women have experienced physical or sexual violence, and 73% have experienced coercive control from an intimate partner in their lifetime.\n\nVanuatu has responded. We recognise this violence as a critical dimension of [non-economic loss and damage](https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s10584-023-03624-y), which moves the conversation beyond the purely economic impacts of climate change. Our [Loss and Damage Policy and Implementation Plan](https:\/\/docc.gov.vu\/index.php\/lnd\/lnd-policy) commits to addressing both economic and non-economic impacts across all climate-related initiatives and financing. This is a world-first commitment, and it should become a regional and global standard.\n\nThe [2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent](https:\/\/forumsec.org\/2050) commits to keeping all Pacific peoples resilient to climate change and disasters. With Pacific Island countries (PICs) among the most vulnerable in the world, the investment required is enormous. The [International Monetary Fund](https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/news\/articles\/2024\/03\/01\/022624oped-li-mills-deepening-the-partnership-between-the-pacific-islands-and-the-imf) [estimates](https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/news\/articles\/2024\/03\/01\/022624oped-li-mills-deepening-the-partnership-between-the-pacific-islands-and-the-imf) PICs need to invest between 6.5% and 9% of gross domestic product each year in adaptation-related infrastructure alone.\n\nLarge infrastructure projects move fast, bring in outside workforces and disrupt communities. Without proper safeguards, they can make women less safe. A mostly male workforce arriving in a community, poorly lit or badly designed public spaces, tensions over land acquisition and harassment of female workers can all increase exposure to violence. If those risks are not anticipated and managed, investments meant to build resilience end up undermining safety, participation and long-term sustainability.\n\nWhen the risks materialise, [the project itself is undermined](https:\/\/www.ifc.org\/content\/dam\/ifc\/doc\/mgrt\/sectorbrief-addressinggbvh-construction-july2020.pdf). Community resistance grows, sustainability collapses and the investment fails to deliver. Many international climate funds already require environmental and social safeguards. Building violence prevention into those frameworks would help climate investments protect women and girls and produce better, more durable outcomes.\n\nThe same risk runs through climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management more broadly. Planned relocation, for example, can heighten competition over land and deepen community tensions, leaving women and girls more exposed in unfamiliar surroundings with limited support.\n\nVanuatu\u2019s experience tells us climate resilience and the safety of women and girls are not separate agendas, and it is asking climate finance partners to make this a condition, not an afterthought.\n\nClimate resilience is not only about protecting coastlines. It is about protecting people. The Pacific has long led global conversations on climate justice. Recognising violence against women and girls as a climate-related impact, and funding the response, is the next part of that work.\n\nAs Cyclones Maila and Vaianu tracked across the Pacific, women were making their way to evacuation centres. The winds pass. For too many women, the violence does not. The question is what we choose to do before the next shock arrives.","country":[{"id":90,"name":"Fiji","shortname":"Fiji","iso3":"fji","location":{"lat":-17.71,"lon":178.065},"primary":true},{"id":132,"name":"Kiribati","shortname":"Kiribati","iso3":"kir","location":{"lat":1.84,"lon":-157.37}},{"id":151,"name":"Marshall Islands","shortname":"Marshall Islands","iso3":"mhl","location":{"lat":8.43,"lon":168.55}},{"id":185,"name":"Papua New Guinea","shortname":"PNG","iso3":"png","location":{"lat":-6.48,"lon":145.24}},{"id":204,"name":"Samoa","shortname":"Samoa","iso3":"wsm","location":{"lat":-13.76,"lon":-172.16}},{"id":215,"name":"Solomon Islands","shortname":"Solomon Islands","iso3":"slb","location":{"lat":-8.92,"lon":159.63}},{"id":249,"name":"Vanuatu","shortname":"Vanuatu","iso3":"vut","location":{"lat":-16.26,"lon":167.72}},{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld"}],"source":[{"name":"Australian National University"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T03:02:45+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213003","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Democratic Republic of the Congo - Vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 des m\u00e9nages \u00e0 l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire: Bulletin trimestriel #1: Janvier - Mars 2026, April 2026","body":"## PRINCIPAUX R\u00c9SULTATS\n\nSur les 145 unit\u00e9s administratives \u00e9valu\u00e9es, 15 (10%) sont stable ou pas de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 ; 61 (42%) ont un niveau de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 mod\u00e9r\u00e9e et 69 (48%) un niveau de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 s\u00e9v\u00e8re.\n\nSur les 69 en situation de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 s\u00e9v\u00e8re, 51 (74%) sont classifi\u00e9es en phase 3 et + lors de la derni\u00e8re analyse IPC, phase de projection (janvier-juin 2026).\n\nLa classification du niveau de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 est cons\u00e9cutive aux \u00e9valuations des param\u00e8tres tel que la pluviom\u00e9trie (Exc\u00e9dent et d\u00e9ficit aux seuils pr\u00e9d\u00e9finis) ; des effets des conflits et mouvements des populations ; de chocs touchant les moyens de substances et le circuit d\u2019approvisionnement des march\u00e9s ; des chocs de prix et leurs cons\u00e9quences sur le co\u00fbt du panier alimentaire des m\u00e9nages\n\n## Vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 s\u00e9v\u00e8re, O\u00f9 ? Qui ? et pourquoi\n\nLe niveau de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 s\u00e9v\u00e8re traverse le pays de l\u2019Est \u00e0 l\u2019Ouest. Les provinces de l\u2019Est du pays (Ituri, Nord Kivu, Sud Kivu et Tanganyika) ; du centre (Grand Kasa\u00ef et Sankuru) ; de l\u2019Ouest (Equateur et Kongo central) sont les plus touch\u00e9es. \n\nDans la partie Est du pays (Ituri, Nord et Sud Kivu) les d\u00e9plac\u00e9s et les m\u00e9nages vivant particuli\u00e8rement des activit\u00e9s agricoles sont les plus touch\u00e9s. Les principales causes sont li\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019activisme des groupes arm\u00e9s locaux et \u00e9trangers (CRP, CODECO dans les territoires de de Djugu, Irumu, Mahagi ; ADF dans les territoires de Mamabasa et Beni ; AFC\/M23 dans les deux Kivu). Ces conflits ont provoqu\u00e9 le d\u00e9placement massif des populations loin de leurs zones d'habitation, entra\u00eenant un dysfonctionnement des march\u00e9s et l'abandon des activit\u00e9s de subsistance. Les circuits d'approvisionnement des march\u00e9s ont \u00e9t\u00e9 perturb\u00e9s, ce qui s'est traduit par des chocs sur les prix et une augmentation du co\u00fbt du panier alimentaire des m\u00e9nages.  \n\nSitu\u00e9e au sud de la province du Sud-Kivu, via le territoire d'Uvira, la province de Tanganyika (incluant la ville et le territoire de Kalemie, ainsi que Kongolo) a accueilli des d\u00e9plac\u00e9s fuyant les hostilit\u00e9s \u00e0 Fizi, Uvira et Mwenga. On observe \u00e9galement des pluies insuffisantes qui impactent la production de ma\u00efs, pommes de terre, haricot et manioc (\u00e0 Moba, Kongolo,  Manono et Nyunzu), ainsi que des difficult\u00e9s d'acc\u00e8s dues au d\u00e9labrement avanc\u00e9 des routes et voies de circulation.  \n\nDans les provinces de l'\u00c9quateur et de l'Ituri, les activit\u00e9s de r\u00e9colte de la saison B et de pr\u00e9paration des terres (d\u00e9frichage, abattage, incin\u00e9ration) pour la saison A sont perturb\u00e9es par de fortes pluies, atteignant jusqu'\u00e0 25 % de plus que les pr\u00e9visions pluviom\u00e9triques de la zone. Cela a affect\u00e9 la disponibilit\u00e9 des produits alimentaires dans les march\u00e9s des diff\u00e9rents territoires et accentu\u00e9 la p\u00e9riode de soudure.  \n\nEn revanche, dans la partie sud et le centre du pays, on enregistre des d\u00e9ficits pluviom\u00e9triques dans les territoires suivants : Kasenga, Likasi, Pweto et Kambove (Haut-Katanga) ; Mweka et Dimbelenge (Kasa\u00ef) ; Boma, Lukula et Moanda (Kongo central) ; Kole et Lodja (Sankuru) ; Kabalo, Kalemie et Kongolo (Tanganyika). Outre ces anomalies pluviom\u00e9triques, on note de fortes perturbations des march\u00e9s li\u00e9es au mauvais \u00e9tat des routes et voies d'acc\u00e8s dans plusieurs territoires, limitant ainsi l'acc\u00e8s physique des m\u00e9nages","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:46:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213002","score":1,"fields":{"title":"World Bank\u2019s Adaptive and Productive Social Safety Nets Project Extends to Sudanese Refugees and Host Communities in the Central African Republic","body":"The World Bank Group approved the Ndoy\u00e9 Project in 2024 in the Central African Republic (CAR) to expand adaptive social safety nets and strengthen resilience among vulnerable populations. 70,000 households are targeted by the project.\n\nWith an initial financing of US$30 million, the project has been scaled up to US$52 million through an additional US$22 million financing, including US$20 million from the Window for Host Communities and Refugees. This additional financing allows for the inclusion of approximately 50,000 primarily Sudanese refugees (around 8,500 households) alongside host communities throughout Eastern CAR.\n\nRefugee and host households benefit primarily from regular cash transfers (XAF 25,000 per quarter over two years), complemented by emergency transfers (to 29,000 households, as response to climate-related shocks), behavior change and human capital support, and economic inclusion activities, including labor-intensive public works and livelihood grants.\n\nUnder the Ndoy\u00e9 Project, cash transfers are expected to begin in May 2026. The project is implemented under the leadership of the Ministry of Humanitarian Action, Solidarity, and National Reconciliation (MAHSRN) through its Project Implementation Support Unit.\n\nFor more information, please contact Joachim Boko (**gboko@worldbank.org**) and Athanase Danhossou (**adanhossou@worldbank.org**), World Bank task team leaders for the project.","country":[{"id":54,"name":"Central African Republic","shortname":"CAR","iso3":"caf","location":{"lat":6.57,"lon":20.48},"primary":true},{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30}}],"source":[{"name":"World Bank"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:42:52+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213001","score":1,"fields":{"title":"General Assembly backs historic World Court climate crisis ruling","body":"**21 May 2026**\n\n**Suva, Fiji** \u2013 The United Nations Resident Coordinator for Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu, Dirk Wagener, welcomes the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of a resolution affirming the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.\n\nThe ICJ earlier ruled that if States breach these obligations, they are legally responsible and may be legally required to stop the wrongful conduct, offer guarantees that it won\u2019t happen again, and make full reparation, depending on the circumstances.\n\nThe resolution was adopted today by an overwhelming majority of 141 Member States voting in favour. This outcome reflects broad cross-regional engagement with the Court\u2019s legal guidance and recognition of the role of international law in addressing climate change.\n\nIn response to the General Assembly\u2019s resolution, the UN Resident Coordinator, Dirk Wagener, said: \u201cFor the Pacific, this resolution carries a particular meaning. It reflects a journey that began with Pacific youth and governments, seeking legal clarity through multilateral institutions. The General Assembly\u2019s adoption reaffirms the relevance of international law in addressing climate change and reinforces a global framework that Pacific countries have long engaged in through cooperation, equity and shared responsibility.\u201d\n\nThe resolution marks a new phase in the international response to the ICJ\u2019s 2025 Advisory Opinion. By adopting this resolution, Member States have taken a collective institutional step to acknowledge the Court\u2019s guidance with implications on their national responses to climate change.\n\nThis development follows a process initiated by Pacific Island countries and young people who sought clarity on how existing international law applies to climate change. That initiative led the General Assembly, in March 2023, to unanimously request an Advisory Opinion from the ICJ.\n\nFollowing extensive written submissions and oral hearings, the Court clarified States\u2019 obligations to act with due diligence, cooperation and urgency to prevent significant harm to the global climate system.\n\nThe resolution carries significant political and moral authority. It strengthens the global framework within which States pursue climate action and underscores the importance of good-faith cooperation and sustained international engagement.\n\nThe adoption of this resolution underscores the continuing role of the United Nations as a forum for collective action at a time of an accelerating climate crisis. The United Nations remains committed to working with governments and communities across the region to support nationally led priorities for climate resilience, sustainable development and a just transition, translating this global step forward into practical outcomes for the planet, people, and livelihoods.\n\n**ENDS**\n\n**UNRCO Media Contact:**  \nAvneel Chand: avneel.chand@un.org  \nSofaia Koroitanoa: sofaia.koroitanoa@un.org","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true},{"id":90,"name":"Fiji","shortname":"Fiji","iso3":"fji","location":{"lat":-17.71,"lon":178.065}},{"id":215,"name":"Solomon Islands","shortname":"Solomon Islands","iso3":"slb","location":{"lat":-8.92,"lon":159.63}},{"id":233,"name":"Tonga","shortname":"Tonga","iso3":"ton","location":{"lat":-20.39,"lon":-174.83}},{"id":239,"name":"Tuvalu","shortname":"Tuvalu","iso3":"tuv","location":{"lat":-7.47,"lon":178.69}}],"source":[{"name":"UN Resident Coordinator to Fiji, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:37:50+00:00"}}},{"id":"4213000","score":1,"fields":{"title":"M\u00e9canisme de r\u00e9ponse rapide (RRM) : Ha\u00efti Artibonite, Aper\u00e7u Janvier - Mars 2026","body":"Le M\u00e9canisme de R\u00e9ponse Rapide (RRM) en Ha\u00efti vise \u00e0 r\u00e9pondre rapidement aux besoins humanitaires imm\u00e9diats des populations affect\u00e9es par des chocs soudains tels que les violences arm\u00e9es, les catastrophes naturelles ou les \u00e9pid\u00e9mies. Il repose sur trois piliers principaux : la veille humanitaire, les \u00e9valuations rapides multisectorielles (ERM) et la fourniture d\u2019une assistance d\u2019urgence, principalement \u00e0 travers la modalit\u00e9 transferts mon\u00e9taires.\n\nMis en \u0153uvre dans le d\u00e9partement de l\u2019Artibonite par AVSI et Acted, avec l\u2019appui d\u2019IMPACT Initiatives\/REACH pour la gestion de l\u2019information, la coordination et le plaidoyer, le RRM agit en \u00e9troite collaboration avec la communaut\u00e9 humanitaire et les autorit\u00e9s locales. L\u2019approche privil\u00e9gie les m\u00e9nages les plus vuln\u00e9rables, ind\u00e9pendamment de leur statut (d\u00e9plac\u00e9s internes, communaut\u00e9s h\u00f4tes, retourn\u00e9s, etc.), et se concentre sur les zones o\u00f9 la capacit\u00e9 de r\u00e9ponse est limit\u00e9e ou absente. Le pr\u00e9sent produit d\u2019information est \u00e9labor\u00e9 \u00e0 partir des donn\u00e9es secondaires collect\u00e9es par les partenaires du Consortium sur les activit\u00e9s men\u00e9es en faveur des populations affect\u00e9es entre janvier et mars 2026. Les partenaires renseignent r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement leurs interventions sur le dashboard dynamique du RRM en ligne, permettant un suivi consolid\u00e9 et actualis\u00e9 des r\u00e9ponses apport\u00e9es.","country":[{"id":113,"name":"Haiti","shortname":"Haiti","iso3":"hti","location":{"lat":19.18,"lon":-72.43},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development"},{"name":"AVSI Foundation \u2013 ETS"},{"name":"IMPACT Initiatives"},{"name":"REACH Initiative"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:29:47+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212998","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) - Macomia, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, May 2026","body":"**KEY FINDINGS**\n\n\u2022 Shelter and NFI support are the most immediate priorities. All KIs reported shelter and NFIs among the top three priority needs, with emergency shelter materials\/tarpaulins identified as needs.\n\n\u2022 Displacement remains recent and likely to continue. All KIs identified newly arrived displaced households as the affected group; most reported arrivals within 8\u201321 days before data collection, with further arrivals expected.\n\n\u2022 Water, sanitation, food access and livelihoods require close follow-up. The main water sources were unprotected wells and surface water; food access constraints were linked to lack of purchasing power and loss of access to land among KIs reporting food security needs.\n\n**CONTEXT**\n\nBetween 14 and 17 April 2026, attacks by Non-State Armed Groups (NSAGs) in Nkoe locality and subsequent movements towards Nguida heightened insecurity across affected and surrounding areas in Macomia District. The IOM DTM Movement Alert reported 452 displaced individuals linked to the Macomia attack, including people originating from Nkoe, Nguida, Macomia, Chai and Pangane. Most of these displaced individuals reportedly sought refuge in resettlement sites and host communities within Macomia locality. Across the wider Macomia and Muidumbe alert, 573 individuals\/177 households were displaced, with children representing 52% of the displaced population. The alert identified food assistance, emergency shelter and NFIs as immediate needs.1 The RRM team of Action Contre la Faim conducted an RNA to better understand their primary needs.","country":[{"id":164,"name":"Mozambique","shortname":"Mozambique","iso3":"moz","location":{"lat":-18.09,"lon":34.75},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"REACH Initiative"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:26:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212997","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Rapid Needs Assessment (RNA) Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) - Ancuabe, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique, May 2026","body":"**KEY FINDINGS**\n\n- Food and shelter needs are the clearest immediate response priorities. Findings point to urgent needs for food assistance, emergency shelter support and targeted NFIs, as well as support to households hosting IDPs\n- Access to basic goods and services exists, but households face major practical barriers. Lack of financial resources, distance, disrupted livelihoods and limited documentation are preventing households from meeting needs independently.\n- Displacement is recent, ongoing and increasing pressure on host-based arrangements. Protection risks, psychosocial distress and potential tensions over land, services and assistance require close monitoring.\n\n**CONTEXT**\n\nBetween 27 and 30 April 2026, several communities in Ancuabe District, Cabo Delgado, were affected by attacks and related population movements. On 27 April, armed actors reportedly entered Muaja, abducted 19 people, looted food, and burned community assets, including the village leader\u2019s community house and a vehicle transporting maize. On 30 April, further attacks were reported in Minhewene and Nacole, where civilian houses, public infrastructure, a school, a church and health facilities were reportedly damaged, looted or burned. In Nacole, approximately 10 houses were reportedly burned following an armed clash between the attackers and Government Forces.\n\nAccording to initial information from local authorities, approximately 1,573 displaced families, equivalent to 3,950 people, were displaced from Minhewene and Nacole, with arrivals reported in Nanjua B, Nanjua A, Muaja, Majasse and Nsanja. The alert also indicated the presence of vulnerable groups among the displaced population, including children, pregnant women, older persons and people with chronic illnesses. Population movement was reportedly ongoing at the time of the alert.1","country":[{"id":164,"name":"Mozambique","shortname":"Mozambique","iso3":"moz","location":{"lat":-18.09,"lon":34.75},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"REACH Initiative"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:21:37+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212996","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WHO ramps up support to the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s Ebola outbreak response","body":"\\*\\*Kinshasa\u2014\\*\\* The World Health Organization (WHO) is intensifying efforts and supporting the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s government to rapidly establish and scale up critical measures to control and halt the outbreak of Ebola in the country\u2019s north-eastern Ituri Province\n\nFollowing the declaration of the outbreak on May 15, 2026, WHO acted rapidly, delivering 11.5 tonnes of vital medical supplies and equipment within 72 hours from facilities in Kinshasa and from its Regional Emergency Hubs in Dakar and Nairobi.\n\nMore than 35 experts and first responders from WHO and the Ministry of Health have been deployed to the field. Additional teams are being deployed as the response intensifies to reinforce key measures including disease surveillance for early detection; clinical care; infection prevention and control; and engaging communities to ensure public health measures are observed.\n\nCollaboration with partner organizations and the private sector has been crucial in the timely delivery of the emergency supplies. The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) has provided essential airlift support for transporting supplies from Nairobi and facilitated ground access to enhance operational effectiveness.\n\n\u201cThe collaboration with MONUSCO has been pivotal in ensuring a swift response. Their ability to provide airlift support significantly enhances our logistics capabilities, allowing us to respond to the needs of the community effectively,\u201d said Adama Thiam, Head of Regional Emergency Operations and Logistics at WHO Africa.\n\nIn addition, negotiations with Ethiopian Airlines enabled reprioritization of their flights to ensure urgent delivery of cargo, demonstrating the commitment of our partners to assist during this critical time.\n\nThe supplied materials include personal protective equipment, medical kits, tents, and water, sanitation and hygiene items\u2014all crucial for preventing infection and managing cases effectively.\n\nAdditional supplies are already in transit from Kinshasa and will reach Ituri in the coming days to bolster response operations, save lives, protect frontline responders and help end the outbreak.\n\nThe outbreak is unfolding against a complex epidemiological, humanitarian and security backdrop characterized insecurity, highly mobile populations, including cross-border and trade such as mining, as well as the presence of large refugee communities.\n\nThe WHO Director-General has determined that the outbreak, caused by Ebola Bundibugyo virus, constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, requiring international coordination and cooperation for the response.\n\nUnlike Ebola virus disease, no licensed vaccine or specific treatment exists for Bundibugyo virus disease. Research and development initiatives are being mobilized to identify and advance potential medical countermeasures. Response strategies will rely heavily on comprehensive public health measures, including supportive care, early case detection, stringent infection prevention and control protocols, rigorous contact tracing, safe burial practices, and deep community engagement.\n\nThe outbreak is the Democratic Republic of the Congo\u2019s 17th since the virus was first identified in 1976. The previous one was an outbreak of Ebola virus disease that ended in December 2025.\n\n**For Additional Information or to Request Interviews, Please contact:**\n\nSaida Swaleh\n\nCommunications and Media Relations Officer  \nWHO Regional Office for Africa  \nEmail: saida.swaleh@who.int\n\nEugene Kabambi\n\nCommunications Officer\n\nWHO DRC\n\nTel : +243 81 715 1697  \nOffice : +47 241 39 027  \nEmail: kabambie@who.int","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:17:47+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212995","score":1,"fields":{"title":"The Bundibugyo virus challenge: why is this Ebola disease outbreak different?","body":"On 15 May 2026, the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ministry of Health officially declared an Ebola disease outbreak in the northeast of the country, where M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) teams are operating. Since then, the authorities have reported nearly 500 suspected cases and more than 130 deaths across multiple health zones. On the same day, Uganda announced the virus had crossed the border.\n\nThe outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo virus \u2014 which is rarer and does not yet have an approved vaccine or treatment. John Johnson, MSF's medical lead for epidemic response, shares what MSF knows about the unfolding crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Uganda.\n\n## Are there vaccines available to fight this Ebola disease outbreak?\n\nThere are currently two approved vaccines against [Ebola](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/ebola) disease, but neither is approved for use in cases of infection with the Bundibugyo virus.\n\nThe Ervebo vaccine (rVSV-ZEBOV) can be used to limit the spread of the disease through a so-called ring vaccination strategy, meaning it is administered to people who have been in contact with an infected individual, secondary contacts, and healthcare workers. Another [vaccine](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/vaccination) can be used both during outbreaks for people at risk of exposure to the virus, and as a preventive measure before outbreaks for frontline responders or those living in areas not yet affected by the outbreak.\n\nHowever, these two vaccines are currently approved only against the most common virus responsible for Ebola disease (known as the \u201cEbola virus\u201d, formerly called the \u201cZaire virus\u201d), which notably caused the devastating [outbreak](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/epidemics-and-pandemics) in West Africa between 2014 and 2016.\n\nDiscussions are underway within the World Health Organization (WHO) to determine which vaccine candidates could be tested in emergency clinical trials against the Bundibugyo virus, as has been done in previous Ebola disease outbreaks. MSF is ready to contribute to this research, as we did during the trials conducted in [DRC](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/democratic-republic-congo-drc) in 2019. Those trials led to the approval and market release of two vaccines and treatments.\n\n## Is there a treatment for the Bundibugyo virus?\n\nThere is currently no approved treatment for Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus.\n\nThe two monoclonal antibodies licensed following clinical trials conducted in the DRC between 2018 and 2020 are likewise specific to one species of Ebola, but not to Bundibugyo virus. That said, antiviral candidates and experimental monoclonal antibodies do exist, though their efficacy has yet to be established.\n\nIn the absence of a specific treatment, care relies primarily on symptom management (such as fever, headache, vomiting, diarrhoea, etc.) and intensive supportive therapy aimed at improving patients\u2019 chances of survival: fluid replacement, oxygen support, and close monitoring of blood and cardiac parameters. During the two previous Ebola disease outbreaks caused by Bundibugyo virus, the estimated case fatality rate ranged between 25 and 40 per cent.\n\n## What detection tools are available?\n\nAn additional major obstacle in the response to this outbreak is the ability to rapidly diagnose those affected by the disease. PCR[1](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/bundibugyo-virus-challenge-why-ebola-disease-outbreak-different#footnote1_P3AuuCV8ZK3syWtOCqpBxz8EfdcPq026TYlzD3x4Hz0_kNsLQL943aKw) tests require virus-specific diagnostic cartridges. However, these cartridges are currently available in insufficient quantities for the Bundibugyo virus, which considerably slows down case confirmation and, as a result, the implementation of contact tracing and patient isolation.\n\n## Without any approved vaccine or treatment, what can be done to limit the spread?\n\nIn the absence of approved treatments and vaccines, the response rests on a combination of epidemiological and public health measures: early isolation of suspected and confirmed cases; daily monitoring of contacts over 21 days with immediate quarantine at the onset of symptoms; strict infection prevention and control protocols (hand hygiene, waste management, chlorinated water points, and personal protective equipment for healthcare workers); safe and dignified burials to prevent transmission during funeral rituals; and on-the-ground epidemiological work to reconstruct transmission chains and identify high-risk practices. It is also critical to ensure continued access to non-Ebola-related care for people in affected areas.\n\nNone of this can function without sustained community engagement \u2014 informing people and building trust; a far more difficult task in contexts marked by insecurity and limited access to healthcare, such as in the DRC provinces currently affected by the disease.\n\nThe urgency of a swift response is underscored by a sobering figure: more than 50 people had already died since the beginning of April, before the outbreak was even officially declared on 15 May \u2014 a sign of delayed detection, a pattern that is characteristic of the early stages of Ebola disease outbreaks, but especially worrying in the current one in light of the high numbers of suspect cases and deaths already announced.\n\n## What do we know about the spread of the outbreak?\n\nMSF received the first alerts on 9 and 10 May, reporting a growing number of deaths in the Mongwalu health zone, northwest of Bunia, in Ituri province. Cases were subsequently identified in the Bunia and Rwampara health zones, and a few days later in the neighbouring province of North Kivu, including its capital Goma, pointing to already significant spread across the territory.\n\nHealth authorities in [Uganda](https:\/\/www.msf.org\/uganda) \u2013 which shares a border with DRC \u2013 confirmed a first case, who died on 14 May. On Sunday, 17 May, the WHO activated its highest alert level in response to the outbreak.\n\nThis is the seventeenth Ebola outbreak the DRC has experienced since the first case was discovered in 1976, and the third to specifically involve the Bundibugyo virus, following outbreaks in Uganda in 2007\u20132008 and in the DRC in 2012. Over the past decade, MSF has responded to multiple Ebola disease outbreaks, most notably in West Africa between 2014 and 2016, in DRC between 2018 and 2020, and in Uganda in 2022 and 2025.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:16:32+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212994","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Statement by Principals of the IASC, Protecting Civilians in Armed Conflict is a Responsibility that Member States and the UN Security Council Must Uphold","body":"**Published Date**\n\n20 May 2026\n\nAs the Protection of Civilians Week unfolds in New York, we strongly condemn and raise the alarm about the growing and blatant violations of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law meant to protect civilians in armed conflict.\n\nAcross conflicts, civilians, including children, are killed, injured, and displaced at an alarming scale. Sexual violence is used as a tactic of war, overwhelmingly affecting women and girls and devastating lives. Homes, schools, places of worship, hospitals, including maternal wards, are destroyed or damaged, as are civilian infrastructure and assets, such as water systems, transport network, markets, food production. Essential services are collapsing. Forced displacement is accelerating.\n\nConflict-induced hunger and famine are spreading, often driven by unlawful siege tactics, starvation, and the arbitrary denial of humanitarian access. This is happening despite the existence of clear obligations under International Humanitarian Law and the framework reaffirmed by UN Security Council resolution 2417 (2018), which condemns the deliberate starvation of civilians and the use of hunger as method of warfare. And a decade after the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 2286 (2016) that demands the protection of the wounded, sick, and medical personnel, violence, attacks and threats against healthcare workers and facilities continue with impunity. More than 10,000 incidents against health care facilities and workers have been verified to date.\n\nAid workers are also under attack and killed in unprecedented numbers. More than 1,000 humanitarian colleagues have been killed over the past three years. Many others are arbitrarily detained. Often the first to respond, staff from national and local organisations and community initiatives pay an unacceptably high toll. Many women-led-organisations addressing lifesaving protection and gender-based violence are being attacked.\n\nFrom Gaza to El Fasher, and from Kharkiv to Beirut, the use of explosive weapons in populated areas is devastating civilian lives. At the same time, new technologies, including drones and artificial intelligence, are reshaping warfare and expanding the battlefield.\n\nWars have rules that apply to all parties to conflict. The problem is not a lack of law. The problem is the failure to uphold them consistently, the erosion of accountability and inaction, even in the face of atrocities.\n\nProtecting civilians is a legal obligation and a moral imperative. For the sake of our shared humanity, rules that protect civilians must be upheld.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Inter-Agency Standing Committee"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:09:58+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212993","score":1,"fields":{"title":"L\u2019OMS intensifie son appui \u00e0 la r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie d\u2019Ebola en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo","body":"**Kinshasa \u2014** L\u2019Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9 (OMS) renforce ses efforts pour soutenir le gouvernement de la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo afin de mettre rapidement en place et d\u2019intensifier des mesures essentielles visant \u00e0 contr\u00f4ler et \u00e0 arr\u00eater l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de maladie \u00e0 virus Ebola dans la province de l\u2019Ituri, dans le Nord-Est du pays.\n\n\u00c0 la suite de la d\u00e9claration de l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie le 15 mai 2026, l\u2019OMS a agi rapidement en livrant 11,5 tonnes de fournitures m\u00e9dicales et d\u2019\u00e9quipements essentiels dans un d\u00e9lai de 72 heures, depuis ses installations de Kinshasa et ses centres r\u00e9gionaux d'urgence de Dakar et de Nairobi.\n\nPlus de 35 experts et intervenants de premi\u00e8re ligne de l\u2019OMS et du minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9ploy\u00e9s sur le terrain. D\u2019autres \u00e9quipes sont en cours de d\u00e9ploiement \u00e0 mesure que la r\u00e9ponse s\u2019intensifie, afin de renforcer les mesures cl\u00e9s telles que la surveillance des maladies pour une d\u00e9tection pr\u00e9coce, les soins cliniques, la pr\u00e9vention et le contr\u00f4le des infections, ainsi que l\u2019engagement communautaire pour garantir le respect des mesures de sant\u00e9 publique.\n\nLa collaboration avec les organisations partenaires et le secteur priv\u00e9 a \u00e9t\u00e9 essentielle pour assurer la livraison rapide des fournitures d\u2019urgence. La Mission de l\u2019Organisation des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (MONUSCO) a fourni un appui a\u00e9rien crucial pour le transport des fournitures depuis Nairobi et a facilit\u00e9 l\u2019acc\u00e8s terrestre afin d\u2019am\u00e9liorer l\u2019efficacit\u00e9 des op\u00e9rations.\n\n\u00ab La collaboration avec la MONUSCO a \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9terminante pour assurer une r\u00e9ponse rapide. Leur capacit\u00e9 \u00e0 fournir un appui a\u00e9rien renforce consid\u00e9rablement nos capacit\u00e9s logistiques, nous permettant de r\u00e9pondre efficacement aux besoins des communaut\u00e9s \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Adama Thiam, le chef des op\u00e9rations d\u2019urgence r\u00e9gionales et de la logistique \u00e0 l\u2019OMS Afrique.\n\nPar ailleurs, des n\u00e9gociations avec Ethiopian Airlines ont permis de r\u00e9organiser leurs vols afin d\u2019assurer la livraison urgente du fret, d\u00e9montrant l\u2019engagement de nos partenaires \u00e0 apporter leur contribution en cette p\u00e9riode critique.\n\nLes fournitures incluent des \u00e9quipements de protection individuelle, des kits m\u00e9dicaux, des tentes ainsi que du mat\u00e9riel pour l\u2019eau, l\u2019assainissement et l\u2019hygi\u00e8ne\u2014tous essentiels pour pr\u00e9venir les infections et prendre efficacement en charge les cas.\n\nD\u2019autres fournitures sont d\u00e9j\u00e0 en transit depuis Kinshasa et atteindront l\u2019Ituri dans les prochains jours afin de renforcer les op\u00e9rations de r\u00e9ponse, sauver des vies, prot\u00e9ger les intervenants de premi\u00e8re ligne et mettre fin \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie.\n\nCette \u00e9pid\u00e9mie survient dans un contexte \u00e9pid\u00e9miologique, humanitaire et s\u00e9curitaire complexe, caract\u00e9ris\u00e9 par l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9, une forte mobilit\u00e9 des populations, y compris les mouvements transfrontaliers et les activit\u00e9s commerciales telles que l\u2019exploitation mini\u00e8re, ainsi que la pr\u00e9sence d\u2019importantes communaut\u00e9s de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s.\n\nLe Directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019OMS a d\u00e9termin\u00e9 que cette \u00e9pid\u00e9mie, caus\u00e9e par le virus Ebola Bundibugyo, constitue une Urgence de sant\u00e9 publique de port\u00e9e internationale, n\u00e9cessitant une coordination et une coop\u00e9ration internationales pour la r\u00e9ponse.\n\nContrairement \u00e0 la maladie \u00e0 virus Ebola classique, il n\u2019existe ni vaccin homologu\u00e9 ni traitement sp\u00e9cifique contre la maladie \u00e0 virus Bundibugyo. Des initiatives de recherche et d\u00e9veloppement sont en cours pour identifier et faire avancer des contre-mesures m\u00e9dicales potentielles. Les strat\u00e9gies de r\u00e9ponse reposeront largement sur des mesures de sant\u00e9 publique compl\u00e8tes, notamment les soins de soutien, la d\u00e9tection pr\u00e9coce des cas, des protocoles rigoureux de pr\u00e9vention et de contr\u00f4le des infections, un tra\u00e7age strict des contacts, des enterrements dignes et s\u00e9curis\u00e9s et un engagement communautaire approfondi.\n\nIl s\u2019agit de la 17\u1d49 \u00e9pid\u00e9mie en RDC depuis l\u2019identification du virus en 1976. La pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de maladie \u00e0 virus Ebola a pris fin en d\u00e9cembre 2025.\n\n**Pour plus d'informations ou pour demander des interviews, veuillez contacter :**\n\nSaida Swaleh\n\nCommunications and Media Relations Officer  \nWHO Regional Office for Africa  \nEmail: saida.swaleh@who.int\n\nEugene Kabambi\n\nCommunications Officer\n\nWHO DRC\n\nTel : +243 81 715 1697  \nOffice : +47 241 39 027  \nEmail: kabambie@who.int","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T02:08:33+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212990","score":1,"fields":{"title":"ICRC President: \"We can no longer pretend that what we are witnessing across war zones is in accordance with the law\"","body":"**Speech given by Mirjana Spoljaric, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, at the UN Security Council Open Debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict \u2013 20 May 2026, New York**\n\nMr President,\n\n**Wars fought without rules transform wars between combatants into wars against civilians.**\n\nIn recent weeks, I have undertaken several missions to the Middle East, where the impact of conflict on civilians is painfully clear. But brutal patterns of warfare are becoming pervasive across regions from the Middle East to the Horn of Africa, to eastern Europe, and beyond.\n\n**We can no longer pretend that what we are witnessing across war zones is in accordance with the law.**\n\nNot the scale of destruction.\n\nNot the scale of suffering.\n\nAnd not the language being used to justify it.\n\nWhen leaders direct their militaries to act without restraint, when they label their enemies as sub-human, when they threaten entire populations, they do more than incite war crimes.\n\n**They threaten to destroy the moral foundations of what it means to be human.**\n\nAcross history, dehumanization has been a consistent precursor to atrocity. Indiscriminate killing, torture and abuse become far easier to justify when we stop seeing others as equal human beings.\n\nBut what happens when **brutalizing rhetoric becomes the baseline**? It gives your enemy the green light to do the same.\n\nThe real-world consequences are horrific and undeniable.\n\nEntire territories reduced to rubble and hospitals destroyed, patients killed. Aid workers and medics repeatedly targeted.\n\nThese are the IHL violations that happen in plain sight.\n\nOthers happen in the shadows, in jail cells, detention centres and interrogation rooms far from public scrutiny. **In the extreme power imbalance between a person in a cell and those holding the keys, moral boundaries can easily collapse.**\n\nIn too many conflicts, people behind bars are stripped of any shred of their humanity. They are recast as less than human and therefore unworthy of fair treatment or trial. They are robbed of their identities and are at risk of vanishing, as records of their whereabouts are destroyed.\n\nDehumanization is not limited to captured combatants; civilians deprived of liberty are often subjected to similar abuses.\n\nDeliberate cruelty does not happen by chance. **There is no such thing as accidental torture or abuse.** It is the product of a system designed to rationalize acts born from a disregard of the law and military strategies designed to irreversibly destroy.\n\nThe Geneva Conventions are clear that in international armed conflicts - including occupation - prisoners of war, civilian internees and detainees have a right to be visited by the ICRC. We monitor their treatment and conditions, keep them connected with their families and help prevent them from going missing.\n\nDespite states\u2019 obligation to allow ICRC visits, our access is denied or severely restricted in far too many instances today \u2013 a dangerous erosion of the norms that risks harming not only people behind bars today, but also tomorrow.\n\nWe continue to carry out detention visits wherever we are given access. Last week, I visited Karkh Central Prison in Baghdad, which now houses thousands of people of nearly 70 nationalities who were recently transferred from northeast Syria. Among them are children who were caught up in a war they did not choose and now face a life potentially behind bars.\n\nTheir situation symbolizes what can happen when the **international community** deems entire categories of people outside the bounds of the law and lacks the political and moral courage to manage their fate.\n\n**For many people living through war or under occupation, the feeling of imprisonment is not confined to places of detention but \\[extends\\] to daily life.**\n\nToday, the future of millions of civilians across the world is shackled by a level of destruction that erases their homes and livelihoods, that severs them from their land, that denies them basic human dignity.\n\nArmed conflict does not happen in a vacuum. **Where politics fail, wars follow.** It is therefore time to invest genuinely in the lasting resolution of conflicts, and not only the cursory management of them.\n\nMr President,\n\nProtecting civilians and treating your adversary within the confines of the law does not make you weaker. **It strengthens your moral upper hand at home and abroad.**\n\nThe first steps towards peace are often found in the simultaneous release of prisoners or in the return of the deceased to their loved ones. These acts are far easier to carry out when parties respect the rules of war.\n\nThis is why I urge leaders to make international humanitarian law a political priority. I am encouraged that 111 states have joined the call to be part of the Global IHL Initiative \u2013 an exceptional effort launched by Brazil, China, France, Jordan, Kazakhstan and South Africa to galvanize political commitment to international humanitarian law.\n\nWe cannot succumb to a political culture that erases the lessons born out of world wars, out of the ashes of mass destruction and genocide.\n\nIt is up to you, as members of the Security Council, as members of the United Nations General Assembly and as State Parties to the Geneva Conventions, to change course.\n\nThank you.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Committee of the Red Cross"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:33:19+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212989","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Community-Led Innovation Partnership - Final Evaluation","body":"The Community-Led Innovation Partnership (CLIP), is a global partnership programme between Elrha, Start Network, Asia Disaster Reduction and Response Network, and national partners in Guatemala, Indonesia, the Philippines, and South Sudan. The programme, which run from 2020 until 2026, funded by the UK Foreign Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), leaves an important legacy in rethinking humanitarian innovation by placing crisis-affected communities at the centre of decision-making and solution design. As the programme closes, we are proud to share the final evaluation which highlights that innovation and community-led approaches can generate contextually appropriate, sustainable and more impactful solutions to complex humanitarian challenges.\n\n## **Key Achievements of the Programme:**\n\nThrough the collective efforts the CLIP challenged traditional humanitarian aid models by shifting power, resources, and leadership toward local communities ultimately increasing their resilience to crisis.\n\n**Proven Impact:** Through diverse implementation models, 100 local innovations across four countries were supported and developed, engaging over 3,300 community innovatos and reaching more than 150,000 people.\n\n**High Success Rates:** 74% of supported innovations progressed beyond initial piloting into growth or scaling stages, a rate higher than that typically observed in top-down innovation programme models.\n\n**Strengthened Agency:** The programme facilitated a transition from dependency to self-efficacy of local communities, proving that local knowledge and assets are critical for sustainable, contextualised problem-solving.\n\nAs the sector continues to pursue a \"Humanitarian Reset,\" the CLIP experience offers a clear path forward: we must prioritise local leadership and collaborative, multi-actor partnerships to build a more equitable humanitarian system.\n\nWe invite you to read the full evaluation report to explore our findings, case studies, and recommendations for future humanitarian initiatives. An executive summary with key highlights of the report is also available.","country":[{"id":109,"name":"Guatemala","shortname":"Guatemala","iso3":"gtm","location":{"lat":15.61,"lon":-90.39},"primary":true},{"id":120,"name":"Indonesia","shortname":"Indonesia","iso3":"idn","location":{"lat":-2.28,"lon":117.37}},{"id":188,"name":"Philippines","shortname":"Philippines","iso3":"phl","location":{"lat":11.74,"lon":122.88}},{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5}}],"source":[{"name":"Catholic Agency for Overseas Development"},{"name":"ELRHA"},{"name":"Start Network"},{"name":"Yakkum Emergency Unit"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:17:57+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212988","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Rapport de Situation de la 17\u00e8me \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de la Maladie \u00e0 Virus Ebola\/RDC : SitRep MVE N\u00b0 004\/MVE_17\/2026","body":"**1. CONTEXTE**\n\nLa province de l\u2019Ituri est situ\u00e9e au Nord-Est de la R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo et partage une longue fronti\u00e8re avec l\u2019Ouganda et le Soudan du Sud. Depuis plus de deux d\u00e9cennies, elle est confront\u00e9e \u00e0 une crise humanitaire chronique li\u00e9es aux conflits arm\u00e9s et des d\u00e9placement r\u00e9currents des populations. Elle compte une population estim\u00e9e \u00e0 plus de 8 millions d\u2019habitants parmi lesquels plus d\u2019un million de d\u00e9plac\u00e9s internes.\n\nEn septembre 2018, cette province \u00e9tait touch\u00e9e par une \u00e9pid\u00e9mie de la maladie \u00e0 virus Ebola qui s\u00e9vissait dans la province voisine du Nord-Kivu.\n\nLa zone de sant\u00e9 de Mongbwalu est l\u2019une des 36 zones de sant\u00e9 de la province de l\u2019Ituri. Consid\u00e9r\u00e9e comme point de d\u00e9part de l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie elle est situ\u00e9e dans le territoire de Djugu o\u00f9 op\u00e8rent plusieurs groupes arm\u00e9s. Elle est situ\u00e9e \u00e0 70 km de Bunia, chef-lieu de la province de l\u2019Ituri, avec des mouvements fr\u00e9quents des populations vers l\u2019Ouganda. Cette localit\u00e9 a particularit\u00e9 d\u2019avoir plusieurs chantiers qui attirent les populations venant des autres territoires de la province et des provinces voisines.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:15:58+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212986","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Inclusi\u00f3n de la discapacidad en los sistemas de salud y gesti\u00f3n de emergencias en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe: Brechas, pr\u00e1cticas institucionales y desaf\u00edos para el ejercicio efectivo del derecho a la salud","body":"## Description\n\nEste informe t\u00e9cnico muestra que, si bien Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe ha avanzado en marcos normativos, registros y algunas experiencias institucionales para incluir a las personas con discapacidad en salud y gesti\u00f3n de emergencias, persisten brechas estructurales que limitan el ejercicio efectivo del derecho a la salud. La conclusi\u00f3n principal es que la inclusi\u00f3n a\u00fan depende m\u00e1s de esfuerzos puntuales que de sistemas sostenidos, integrados y centrados en derechos. En sus p\u00e1ginas se destacan cuatro desaf\u00edos cr\u00edticos: datos fragmentados y poco interoperables, servicios de salud todav\u00eda organizados desde la oferta y no desde las necesidades diversas, capacidades del personal que no se institucionalizan y una respuesta a emergencias que sigue siendo general, con escasa adaptaci\u00f3n para asegurar accesibilidad, continuidad del cuidado y apoyos diferenciados. Tambi\u00e9n subraya que la participaci\u00f3n de las organizaciones de personas con discapacidad existe, pero sigue siendo mayoritariamente consultiva y sin incidencia estable en la toma de decisiones. A partir de esa evidencia, se plantea una hoja de ruta clara: incorporar la discapacidad de forma transversal en pol\u00edticas, planes y protocolos; fortalecer sistemas de informaci\u00f3n desagregados y accesibles; asegurar ajustes razonables y la continuidad de la atenci\u00f3n, y consolidar mecanismos permanentes de participaci\u00f3n social y coordinaci\u00f3n intersectorial. En conjunto, esta publicaci\u00f3n llama a transformar los avances normativos en cambios operativos concretos para construir sistemas de salud y gesti\u00f3n de emergencias m\u00e1s universales, resilientes e inclusivos.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Pan American Health Organization"},{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:12:24+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212987","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Syria - Shelter and Non-Food Items (NFI) Sector Strategy 2025-2026 [EN\/AR]","body":"**Overview**\n\nSyria continues to face a severe and complex shelter crisis driven by protracted conflict, economic decline, environmental shocks, and ongoing displacement and return dynamics. Widespread housing damage and limited access to essential household items continue to undermine safe and dignified living conditions.\n\nThe 2025 Nationwide Housing Damage Assessment indicates that 89% of communities are affected, with nearly half experiencing damage to over 50% of housing stock. While most homes remain repairable, financial constraints are the main barrier to recovery.\n\nOver 5.5 million people remain internally displaced, many living in inadequate conditions, while returns continue into damaged housing, increasing pressure on already fragile environments.\n\nShelter needs are closely linked to access to Core and Winter NFIs. Without these, repaired homes remain uninhabitable, undermining return sustainability. The crisis is therefore defined by large-scale but repairable housing damage, persistent displacement, increasing returns, and limited access to basic household support, compounded by climate risks and funding gaps.\n\n**Executive Summary**\n\nThe Shelter\/NFI Sector Strategy for 2025\u20132026 aims to address persistent humanitarian needs in Syria, driven by protracted conflict, mass displacement, inadequate shelter conditions, and growing climate risks. Despite sustained interventions, assistance continues to fall short of needs, with significant funding gaps constraining partners\u2019 ability to scale responses. This reality underscores the necessity of prioritization and value-for-money programming to ensure resources are directed where they can achieve the greatest impact.\n\nAnchored in the 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan, the strategy sets out a three-pronged operational focus that balances emergency response with pathways toward durable solutions and housing resilience. These priorities are reinforced by targeted advocacy, partner capacity building, and inter-sectoral collaboration to ensure inclusive, accountable, and sustainable responses. Ultimately, the strategy seeks to maximize the impact of limited resources, deliver assistance at scale, and lay the foundations for protection-centered recovery that strengthens long-term resilience","country":[{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Shelter Cluster"},{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:11:56+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212985","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: Emergency Border Response report (26 April - 09 May 2026)","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true},{"id":121,"name":"Iran (Islamic Republic of)","shortname":"Iran","iso3":"irn","location":{"lat":32.57,"lon":54.3}},{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39}}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:10:30+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212984","score":1,"fields":{"title":"30 Months Operation Update - Sudan Crisis: Regional Population Movement, Emergency Appeal No. MDRS1001","body":"**A.SITUATION ANALYSIS**  \n**Description of the crisis**\n\nSince the escalation of conflict in Sudan in April 2023, the crisis has driven large-scale displacement across the region, with over 11.5 million people displaced, including approximately 4.5 million fleeing to neighbouring countries such as Ethiopia, South Sudan, Chad, Uganda, Egypt, Libya and the Central African Republic. This mass movement of people has placed significant pressure on border areas and host communities, overwhelming already limited resources and essential services.\n\nAcross the region, health systems have come under severe strain, with increasing outbreaks of communicable diseases linked to overcrowding, inadequate shelter, and poor water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) conditions. Food insecurity has sharply deteriorated, with crisis and emergency levels of hunger observed in multiple contexts. These overlapping pressures have contributed to a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation, affecting both displaced populations and host communities.","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true},{"id":55,"name":"Chad","shortname":"Chad","iso3":"tcd","location":{"lat":15.36,"lon":18.66}},{"id":82,"name":"Egypt","shortname":"Egypt","iso3":"egy","location":{"lat":26.49,"lon":29.87}},{"id":87,"name":"Ethiopia","shortname":"Ethiopia","iso3":"eth","location":{"lat":8.63,"lon":39.62}},{"id":140,"name":"Libya","shortname":"Libya","iso3":"lby","location":{"lat":27.04,"lon":18.02}},{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5}},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T01:02:38+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212983","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Syrian Arab Republic Heat Wave 2025 - DREF Final Report (MDRSY016)","body":"**Description of the Event**\n\n**Date of event**  \n 08-08-2025  \n**What happened, where and when?**\n\nOn 8 August 2025, the Syrian Arab Republic experienced a severe heatwave, with temperatures exceeding 45\u00b0C in several parts of the country. The event was unprecedented in its intensity and duration, following a dry summer and exacerbating the vulnerability of populations already affected by conflict, displacement, and limited access to basic services.\n\nThe heatwave had heavily impacted the governorates of Rural Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, Homs, Sweida, and Daraa, where many communities live in poor shelter conditions with limited protection from extreme heat. Reports from Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) field teams indicated increased cases of heat-related illness, dehydration, and worsening health conditions among vulnerable groups, particularly children, older adults, and persons with chronic illnesses.\n\nAs of 12 August 2025, the heatwave was ongoing, with national meteorological agencies continuing to issue warnings for extreme temperatures expected to persist in the coming days.\n\nThis DREF was sought to enable immediate and targeted humanitarian response by SARC to reduce heat-related health risks and protect the most affected populations.","country":[{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T00:58:20+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212982","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Kyrgyzstan | Cold Wave - Early Action Protocol Annual Report (EAP \u2116: EAP2024KG03, Operation \u2116: MDRKG020), 20 February 2026","body":"**SUMMARY OF THE EARLY ACTION PROTOCOL**\n\nThe IFRC Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) has allocated CHF 526\u2019049 for the implementation anticipatory actions to reduce and mitigate the impact of Cold Wave in Kyrgyzstan. This Early Action Protocol includes an allocation of CHF 420\u2019483 to preposition stock and undertake annual readiness activities in order to implement early actions, if and when the trigger is reached. The early actions to be conducted have been pre-agreed with the National Society and are described in the Early Action Protocol summary.\n\nThis report summarizes the annual readiness and prepositioning activities executed in the reporting period. The report also includes changes and updates made to the initially agreed plan.\n\nFrom 1 September 2024 to 20 February 2026, the Kyrgyz Red Crescent Society (RCSK), with technical support from the German Red Cross and funding from the IFRC Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF), implemented the Early Action Protocol on Cold Wave (EAP for CW). The main objective of this protocol was to reduce the negative impact of the extreme cold weather on vulnerable populations of targeted areas in Kyrgyzstan, including large families, children in orphanages, and older people living in care centres.","country":[{"id":134,"name":"Kyrgyzstan","shortname":"Kyrgyzstan","iso3":"kgz","location":{"lat":41.47,"lon":74.56},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-21T00:52:37+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212980","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cluster Sante de la RDC Rapport situationnel - Humanitaire MVE #3 : \u00c9pid\u00e9mie de la maladie \u00e0 virus \u00c9bola (Souche Bundibugyo) dans le contexte humanitaire (19 mai 2026)","body":"**Chiffres cl\u00e9s sur le contexte humanitaire**\n\n**1. Points saillants**\n\n\u2022 Le Minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 Publique, Hygi\u00e8ne et Pr\u00e9voyance Sociale, \u00e0 travers le COUSP\/l\u2019INSP, continue d\u2019assurer le leadership strat\u00e9gique et op\u00e9rationnel de la riposte \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de Maladie \u00e0 Virus Ebola (MVE) souche Bundibugyo.\n\n\u2022 Au 19 mai 2026, la RDC totalise 51 cas confirm\u00e9s et 4 d\u00e9c\u00e8s confirm\u00e9s, avec une \u00e9volution rapide de la situation \u00e9pid\u00e9miologique, principalement en Ituri.\n\n\u2022 L\u2019Ituri demeure l\u2019\u00e9picentre de l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie avec 48 cas confirm\u00e9s, tandis que le Nord-Kivu a enregistr\u00e9 3 cas confirm\u00e9s \u00e0 Goma (1), Butembo(1) et Katwa (1), augmentant le risque de propagation dans les zones urbaines et les zones de forte mobilit\u00e9.\n\n\u2022 Le COUSP\/INSP a organis\u00e9 un briefing strat\u00e9gique de l\u2019ensemble des acteurs afin d\u2019harmoniser les priorit\u00e9s, les piliers de la r\u00e9ponse et les modalit\u00e9s op\u00e9rationnelles.\n\n\u2022 Les m\u00e9canismes nationaux et provinciaux de coordination demeurent activ\u00e9s afin de garantir une r\u00e9ponse multisectorielle harmonis\u00e9e, int\u00e9gr\u00e9e et align\u00e9e sur l\u2019approche IMS\/COUSP.\n\n\u2022 Les partenaires techniques et financiers poursuivent leur appui aux autorit\u00e9s sanitaires dans les domaines prioritaires de surveillance \u00e9pid\u00e9miologique, pr\u00e9vention et contr\u00f4le des infections (PCI), prise en charge des cas, logistique, laboratoire et engagement communautaire.\n\n\u2022 Les efforts de preparedness et de renforcement des capacit\u00e9s op\u00e9rationnelles se poursuivent dans les provinces et zones de sant\u00e9 \u00e0 risque \u00e9lev\u00e9, notamment en lien avec les dynamiques de mobilit\u00e9 et les risques d\u2019extension interprovinciale.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Health Cluster"},{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T23:59:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212978","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Bangladesh: Situation Report #3 - Measles Outbreak (6 May 2026)","body":"*This report was produced by the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group in collaboration with cluster coordinators and humanitarian partners, members of the Humanitarian Coordination Task Team and covers the period 24 April to 5 May 2026.*\n\n**Highlights**\n\n\u2022 As of 5 May, Bangladesh Ministry of Health and Family Planning reported almost 43,000 suspected measles cases and over 5,700 confirmed cases, including at least 54 confirmed deaths and 263 suspected deaths.\n\n\u2022 These figures indicate approximately 18,000 new confirmed or suspected cases over a two-week period since 22 April, equivalent to approximately 9,000 cases per week. This represents a slowdown in the reported infection rate compared to the previous reporting period (with 11,000 new cases reported in the week of 15-22 April).\n\n\u2022 Children under five make up approximately 72 per cent of cases, slightly lower than in the last reporting period where the proportion was at 80 per cent.\n\n\u2022 The national measles\u2011rubella vaccination campaign has expanded, with over 16 million children vaccinated.\n\n\u2022 The outbreak is placing severe strain on the health system, especially in high\u2011burden divisions, due to overcrowding, limited isolation and referral capacity, rising demand for critical care, shortages of trained staff and essential medical supplies.\n\n\u2022 Government and partners are continuing to scale up community outreach, child\u2011friendly vaccination centres, Vitamin A distribution, and awareness campaigns. Efforts include targeted support to refugees, malnourished children and hard\u2011to\u2011reach areas.","country":[{"id":31,"name":"Bangladesh","shortname":"Bangladesh","iso3":"bgd","location":{"lat":23.84,"lon":90.27},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T23:52:20+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212976","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Recalibrating the Rohingya Response: 2025-26 Joint Response Plan - Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis","body":"**Summary:**\n\nThe 2025\/26 Joint Response Plan (JRP) was launched in March 2025, following a consultative planning process, as a two-year framework under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh with a one-year budget cycle to ensure flexibility in addressing the Rohingya refugee crisis. Anchored in five strategic objectives:\n\n1. **Work towards the** **early, voluntary, and sustainable repatriation** of Rohingya refugees\/FDMNs to Myanmar.\n2. **Strengthen the protection of Rohingya refugee\/FDMN women, men, girls, and boys**.\n3. **Deliver life-saving assistance** to populations in need.\n4. **Foster the well-being of** **host communities**, including income generation, employment, and access to basic services, with a focus on localization and capacity-building.\n5. **Strengthen disaster risk management** and combat the effects of climate change.\n\nJRP 2025\/26 calls for sustained humanitarian assistance while promoting targeted efforts to strengthen coping capacities within the camps and in vulnerable hosting communities who continue to be impacted by the presence of such a large Rohingya refugee\/FDMN population, in line with the policies and priorities of the Government of Bangladesh. As the refugee crisis enters its ninth year, the UN and its partners call on the international community to extend their support to address the prioritized needs of Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities that are hosting them. Between January 2026 to December 2026, the JRP requires $710.5 million to reach 1.6 million people, including Rohingya refugees sheltered in Cox\u2019s Bazar and Bhasan Char and Bangladeshi host communities in Ukhiya and Teknaf.\n\nIn 2026, it brings together 98 partners, including UN Agencies and NGOs, half of which are national organizations from Bangladesh.","country":[{"id":31,"name":"Bangladesh","shortname":"Bangladesh","iso3":"bgd","location":{"lat":23.84,"lon":90.27},"primary":true},{"id":165,"name":"Myanmar","shortname":"Myanmar","iso3":"mmr","location":{"lat":21.15,"lon":96.51}}],"source":[{"name":"Inter-Sector Coordination Group"},{"name":"International Organization for Migration"},{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"},{"name":"UN Resident Coordinator in Bangladesh"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T23:39:23+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212975","score":1,"fields":{"title":"La MONUSCO r\u00e9affirme son appui \u00e0 la riposte contre Ebola en RDC","body":"Kinshasa, le 17 mai 2026 \u2013 La Mission de l\u2019Organisation des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (MONUSCO) r\u00e9affirme son soutien aux autorit\u00e9s de la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, \u00e0 l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la Sant\u00e9 (OMS) et \u00e0 l\u2019ensemble des partenaires engag\u00e9s dans la riposte contre la maladie \u00e0 virus Ebola.\n\nLa Mission suit de pr\u00e8s les orientations du minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 et de l\u2019OMS et continue d\u2019adapter ses mesures de pr\u00e9vention en cons\u00e9quence. Les services m\u00e9dicaux de la MONUSCO ont d\u00e9j\u00e0 renforc\u00e9 les proc\u00e9dures de filtrage \u00e0 l\u2019entr\u00e9e de leurs cliniques ainsi que l\u2019usage syst\u00e9matique d\u2019\u00e9quipements de protection individuelle pour le personnel m\u00e9dical en contact avec les patients.\n\nLa MONUSCO souligne l\u2019importance d\u2019une information fiable et v\u00e9rifi\u00e9e et encourage le personnel, les partenaires et les communaut\u00e9s \u00e0 se r\u00e9f\u00e9rer aux communications officielles des autorit\u00e9s sanitaires comp\u00e9tentes.\n\nLa Mission demeure mobilis\u00e9e, dans le cadre de son mandat et en coordination avec les autorit\u00e9s congolaises et les partenaires concern\u00e9s, pour appuyer une r\u00e9ponse efficace visant \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger les populations et \u00e0 contribuer \u00e0 la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 sanitaire dans les zones affect\u00e9es.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T23:27:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212974","score":1,"fields":{"title":"MONUSCO reaffirms its support to the Ebola response in the DRC","body":"Kinshasa, May 17, 2026 \u2013 The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) reaffirms its support to the authorities of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the World Health Organization (WHO), and all partners involved in the response to the Ebola virus disease outbreak.\n\nThe Mission is closely following the guidance of the Ministry of Health and WHO and continues to adapt its prevention measures accordingly. MONUSCO Medical Services have already reinforced screening procedures at the entrance to Mission clinics and the systematic use of personal protective equipment for medical personnel in contact with patients.\n\nMONUSCO underscores the importance of reliable and verified information and encourages personnel, partners and communities to refer to official communications from the competent health authorities.\n\nThe Mission remains mobilized, within its mandate and in coordination with the Congolese authorities and relevant partners, to support an effective response aimed at protecting populations and contributing to health security in affected areas.\n\nContacts:\n\nNdeye Khady Lo, Porte-parole, ndeye.lo@un.org, portable : +243 997068227\n\nLieutenant-Colonel Charles Idjiwa, Porte-parole militaire, monusco-hq-mpiochief@un.org, t\u00e9l. +243 81 890 31 78, portable : +243 81 89071 60\n\nAd\u00e8le Lukoki, Relations m\u00e9dias, lukokiikola@un.org, portable : +243 81 890 77 06","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T23:25:30+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212970","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cuba: 3W and Funding Overview (as of 30 April 2026)","country":[{"id":71,"name":"Cuba","shortname":"Cuba","iso3":"cub","location":{"lat":21.95,"lon":-79.24},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T20:08:54+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212968","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cuba: Plan of Action - United Nations October 2025 - March 2026 (as of 31 March 2026)","body":"**PRELIMARY OVERVIEW RESPONSE**\n\nAfter Hurricane Melissa hit Cuba on 31 October 2025, the United Nations launched a Plan of Action for US 74.2M, prioritizing 1 million people in 33 municipalities in Granma, Guant\u00e1namo, Holgu\u00edn and Santiago. In March 2026, the plan was revised to incorporate the energy crisis, with an increase in target to 2 million people.\n\nAs of the end of March, 1 million people have received assistance from at least one sector.","country":[{"id":71,"name":"Cuba","shortname":"Cuba","iso3":"cub","location":{"lat":21.95,"lon":-79.24},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:58:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212965","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Measles Rubella bi-Weekly Bulletin (15-16) - 30 April 2026","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true},{"id":109,"name":"Guatemala","shortname":"Guatemala","iso3":"gtm","location":{"lat":15.61,"lon":-90.39}}],"source":[{"name":"Pan American Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:33:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212964","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ukraine's young people continue to pay highest price for war","body":"Attacks on Ukraine on May 19 destroyed homes, schools and hospitals, with 5 killed including at 15-year-old boy and 49 injured, disrupting education and leaving children without loved ones.\n\nThroughout Tuesday, May 19, Russian forces continued to attack Ukraine with missiles, drones, and other weapons. The attacks have resulted in casualties and injuries in several regions.\n\nRussian drone strikes in the Ukrainian regions of Chernihiv and Sumy killed at least 5 people, including a 15-year-old boy on Tuesday, 19 May. The attacks, part of a wider wave of strikes across Ukraine, also injured at least 49 people.\n\nReacting to these distressing incidents, Sven Coppens, Director for East and Central Europe at Plan International, said:\n\n\u201cWe are deeply saddened and alarmed by these attacks, which come only a week after the largest aerial assault on Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. They are a painful reminder of how dangerous life remains for families there.\n\nHomes, schools, and hospitals are being destroyed. Education is disrupted, and children are losing loved ones. No child should lose their life or grow up surrounded by fear and violence. Yet across Ukraine, young people continue to pay the highest price for a war they did not choose.\n\nAll parties to the conflict must do everything in their power to protect civilians. International humanitarian law is clear: children must never be targeted, and their safety must come first.\n\nPlan International stands with the children and families affected. We remain committed to supporting them with safe learning spaces, protection services, and mental health support during this crisis.\u201d\n\nCategories: [Protection from violence](https:\/\/plan-international.org?s=&cat_values%5B%5D=Protection%20from%20violence) Tags: [Child protection in emergencies](https:\/\/plan-international.org?s=&tag_values%5B%5D=Child%20protection%20in%20emergencies)\n\n## Related pages\n\n## Plan condemns the wave of attacks on schools in Nigeria\n\nIn Oyo State gunmen reportedly abducted 46 people. No child should fear going to school. We urge government and security agencies to take urgent action.\n\n[Read more](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/2026\/05\/20\/plan-condemns-wave-attacks-schools-nigeria\/)\n\n[See all news](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/)\n\n## Sudan conference in Berlin: Outcomes fall short on the protection of women and girls\n\nWomen and girls in Sudan are facing unprecedented levels of sexual and gender-based violence.\n\n[Read more](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/sudan-conference-falls-short-on-the-protection-of-women-and-girls\/)\n\n[See all news](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/)\n\n## Three years on, Sudan\u2019s girls pay the highest price of a forgotten war\n\nSudan is still facing the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis. Girls lives, safety and futures are at risk.\n\n[Read more](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/2026\/04\/15\/three-years-on-sudans-girls-pay-the-highest-price-of-a-forgotten-war\/)\n\n[See all news](https:\/\/plan-international.org\/news\/)\n\nShare","country":[{"id":241,"name":"Ukraine","shortname":"Ukraine","iso3":"ukr","location":{"lat":49.32,"lon":31.32},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Plan International"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:33:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212963","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Plan condemns the wave of attacks on schools in Nigeria","body":"Plan International strongly condemns the attack on schools across 2 states in Nigeria. No child should fear going to school. We urge government and security agencies to take urgent action to strengthen the protection of schools and ensure accountability for attacks on children and educational facilitators.\n\nIn Oyo State, gunmen reportedly abducted 46 people, including 7 teachers and 39 students, killing 1 teacher and in Borno State 42 people, many who are children aged between 2 and 5 years old are also reported to have been abducted, both on Friday, 15 May. Verification of the total number of children and students is still underway.\n\nCommenting on the attack Dr. Charles Usie, Country Director of Plan International Nigeria said;\n\n\u201cThese attacks are grave violations of children\u2019s rights to a safe education and highlight the growing insecurity affecting schools across Nigeria.\n\n\u201cThey are deeply distressing and wholly unacceptable. No child should have to fear going to school, and no teacher should risk their life while educating children,\u201d\n\n## Recurring school attacks and abductions\n\n\u201cThe Oyo State incident occurred on the same day that suspected non-state armed groups reportedly attacked schools in Borno State \u2013 where children as young as 2 have been reported missing. We understand schools in the area have been temporarily closed and understandably there is a heightened sense of fear amongst children, parents and teachers in the affected communities.\n\nThese incidents form part of a recurring pattern of attacks on schools and mass abductions of students across Nigeria, including major cases recorded in Niger, Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara in recent years. The repeated targeting of schools and children\u2019s spaces threatens not only the safety and wellbeing of children, but also the future of communities and the next generation. Schools must remain places of learning, growth, and opportunity, not sites of violence and terror.\n\n## Urgent action needed to strengthen school protection\n\n\u201cWe urge the government and security agencies to take urgent, decisive action to strengthen the protection of schools and ensure accountability for attacks on children and educational facilitators.\n\n\u201cThese incidents underscore the urgent need for stronger implementation of existing school safety policies and commitments, including the Safe Schools Declaration. We must move beyond paper pledges to concrete action that protects children, teachers, and schools across the country.\n\nPlan International calls upon the Federal Government, state governments, and security agencies for:\n\n- Immediate action to secure the safe release of abducted children, teachers, and school personnel\n- Stronger security and early warning systems around schools and vulnerable communities\n- Full implementation and adequate funding of the National Policy on Safety, Security and Violence-Free Schools\n- Accelerated implementation of commitments under the Safe Schools Declaration\n- Psychosocial support and protection services for affected students, teachers, and families\n- Increased investment in long-term solutions that address the root causes of insecurity and attacks on education\n\nNigeria endorsed the Safe Schools Declaration in 2015, but repeated attacks show commitments must be matched by stronger implementation.\n\nPlan International stands in solidarity with affected children, families, teachers, and communities during this difficult time and remains committed to advancing children\u2019s rights and ensuring that every child can access safe, inclusive, and uninterrupted education.\u201d","country":[{"id":175,"name":"Nigeria","shortname":"Nigeria","iso3":"nga","location":{"lat":9.59,"lon":8.11},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Plan International"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:33:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212962","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Lebanon: Flash Update #27 - Escalation of hostilities in Lebanon (as of 18 May 2026)","body":"**HIGHLIGHTS**\n\n- **Hostilities intensified despite the announced ceasefire extension**, with continued strikes and new displacement orders affecting at least 27 localities, driving further population movements and increasing humanitarian needs.\n- Since 2 March, **2,988 people were killed** and **9,210 were injured.** Casualties include 209 children, 279 women killed and 838 children and 1,124 women injured.\n- Continued attack on healthcare professionals resulted in **two deaths** and **ten injuries.**\n- **Displacement and pressure on collective shelters are increasing**, with over 130,000 IDPs hosted across 634 sites, while funding shortfalls threaten the continuity of critical services, including WASH.\n- **Flash** **Appeal** stands at **51 per cent funded,** putting critical services at risk of interruption.\n\n**SITUATION OVERVIEW**\n\nThe humanitarian situation in Lebanon deteriorated between 15 and 18 May, marked by a sharp escalation of hostilities despite diplomatic developments. On 15 May, a new 45\u2011day ceasefire extension was announced following talks between Israel and Lebanon facilitated by the United States, with plans to reconvene on 2 June 2026. However, **hostilities on the ground persisted, with continued strikes reported across southern Lebanon governorates**. This reporting period was characterized by some of the most intense attacks since the initial ceasefire was announced in mid\u2011April, contributing to a worsening security environment and deepening humanitarian needs across sectors.\n\nSince the onset of hostilities on 2 March, **at least 2,988 people have been killed and 9,210 injured**. The intensity of attacks during the reporting period further compounded civilian suffering and infrastructure damage. Attacks impacting healthcare continued to be reported despite the ceasefire extension. Between 14 and 18 May, WHO recorded **five incidents affecting healthcare facilities and personnel**, resulting in **two deaths and ten injuries among healthcare workers**. These incidents underscore the continued vulnerability of essential services and the risks faced by frontline responders.\n\n**Displacement levels increased** following the deterioration in security conditions. During the reporting period, **six renewed displacement orders were issued for 27 localities**, triggering additional population movements. Displacement trends across Lebanon continue to show an upward trajectory, although geographically uneven. Areas such as Beirut, Mount Lebanon and North Lebanon are experiencing mounting pressure from successive waves of displacement, while returns remain limited due to insecurity, damaged housing, lack of services, and risks associated with unexploded ordnance (UXO).\n\n**The shelter landscape continues to shift rapidly** in response to fluctuating population movements. As of 18 May, the number of collective shelters increased by five since 14 May, reaching **634 sites hosting over 130,000 internally displaced persons** \u2013 an increase of 2,279 individuals during the reporting period. Ongoing population movements, coupled with uneven shelter availability, are placing additional strain on coordination efforts and response capacity. These dynamics highlight the need for sustained monitoring, flexible planning, and reinforced support to ensure adequate shelter conditions and access to essential services for displaced populations.\n\n**Humanitarian access remains constrained in several conflict\u2011affected and hard\u2011to\u2011reach areas.** Civilians continue to face severe limitations in accessing healthcare, communications, markets, safe mobility, and humanitarian assistance, exacerbated by insecurity and continued infrastructure degradation. While humanitarian partners are maintaining operations where feasible, their ability to scale up remains restricted by insecurity, logistical challenges, and resource limitations.\n\n**Funding constraints remain a major challenge to sustaining life\u2011saving assistance.** As of 18 May, the 2026 Lebanon Flash Appeal has received approximately US$158.2 million out of the US$308 million required, representing **51.3 per cent funding coverage**. The significant funding gap is limiting the ability of humanitarian partners to maintain essential services and expand response capacity. Critical sectors, including Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), face an increasing risk of service interruptions in the coming period if additional resources are not mobilized.\n\n**On 14 May 2026,** the United States and OCHA jointly announced a significant new humanitarian funding package during a press conference at UN Headquarters in New York. The U.S. committed an additional US$1.8 billion in humanitarian financing to OCHA-managed pooled funds and related life\u2011saving activities, bringing its total recent contribution under the Humanitarian Reset framework to approximately US$3.8 billion. Lebanon has been mentioned as one of the recipient countries.\n\nOverall, despite the announced ceasefire extension, **the humanitarian situation remains highly fragile and complex.** Continued hostilities, rising displacement, and pressure on essential services are compounding vulnerabilities across the country. In the absence of sustained improvements in security conditions, humanitarian needs are expected to remain high in the near term.","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:04:01+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212961","score":1,"fields":{"title":"ACNUR Chile: Hoja Informativa Estad\u00edstica Poblaci\u00f3n Venezolana - Diciembre 2025","country":[{"id":57,"name":"Chile","shortname":"Chile","iso3":"chl","location":{"lat":-37.72,"lon":-72.31},"primary":true},{"id":250,"name":"Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)","shortname":"Venezuela","iso3":"ven","location":{"lat":7.62,"lon":-65.8}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:03:16+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212960","score":1,"fields":{"title":"ACNUR Chile: Hoja Informativa Estad\u00edstica - Diciembre 2025","country":[{"id":57,"name":"Chile","shortname":"Chile","iso3":"chl","location":{"lat":-37.72,"lon":-72.31},"primary":true},{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03}},{"id":64,"name":"Colombia","shortname":"Colombia","iso3":"col","location":{"lat":3.9,"lon":-73.07}},{"id":71,"name":"Cuba","shortname":"Cuba","iso3":"cub","location":{"lat":21.95,"lon":-79.24}},{"id":187,"name":"Peru","shortname":"Peru","iso3":"per","location":{"lat":-10.15,"lon":-75.31}},{"id":250,"name":"Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)","shortname":"Venezuela","iso3":"ven","location":{"lat":7.62,"lon":-65.8}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:03:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212959","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Global Weather Hazards Summary, May 21, 2026 - May 27, 2026","body":"**Global Overview:** ENSO-neutral is present. Flooding Likely in parts of Africa, eastern Central Asia, Central America, and Northern South America.\n\n**Africa Weather Hazards**\n\nBelow-average rainfall is increasing dryness southern Ethiopia and South Sudan. Flooding could occur along the Gulf of Guinea next week with increased rainfall.\n\n1\\. Inundation continues in the Sudd wetlands of South Sudan.\n\n2\\. Below-average rainfall since the start of the rainy season has caused abnormal dryness and drought across central, western, and northeastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. The drought has caused crop damage, livestock deaths, and reduced water availability in the western and central provinces of Angola.\n\n3\\. Continuous below-average rainfall since late December of last year has resulted in abnormal dryness across Madagascar, and severe drought in the country\u2019s southern region.\n\n4\\. Above-average rainfall in recent weeks has caused soil oversaturation, resulting in flooding and landslides in Congo, Gabon, parts of Zambia, and southwestern Ethiopia.\n\n5\\. Heavy rains over the last few weeks combined with additional forecasted rainfall in southern South Africa has caused flooding that may linger into the outlook period. Heavy rains over the past 3 weeks have saturated soils and raised river levels in western Kenya and Uganda. Gauges along the upper Shabelle river are reporting moderate risk levels.\n\n6\\. Over the last 30 days or more, poor rainfall caused abnormal dryness in central Somalia, southern, and eastern Ethiopia.\n\n7\\. Forecasted much above-average temperatures will lead to abnormal heat in Morocco over the next week.\n\n8\\. Diminished rainfall over the last 5 weeks in western South Sudan resulted in poor soil moisture conditions.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Famine Early Warning System Network"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T19:03:06+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212958","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director, Crisis Response Division, OCHA, on behalf of Mr. Tom Fletcher, USG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator \u2013 Open debate on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 20 May 2026","body":"*New York, 20 May 2026*\n\n*As delivered*\n\nMr. President,\n\nOne civilian was killed approximately every 14 minutes in 2025.\n\nThese are only the deaths that the United Nations could document across \\[20\\] armed conflicts.\n\nWe know the real toll is far higher in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Sudan, in Ukraine, in the occupied Palestinian territory and beyond.\n\nI saw some of this devastation myself over the past year during my visits to countries affected by war.\n\nCivilians, including children, are killed in their homes, in markets, at work, at school, on roads, and while fleeing for safety.\n\nAll too often, they are not collateral damage. They are the target.\n\nExplosive weapons continue to tear through towns and cities, destroying not only lives but the systems that sustain them such as power grids, water networks, schools, and hospitals.\n\nHealth care is under attack. Ten years after this Council adopted Resolution 2286 on the protection of health care in armed conflict, the situation has only gotten worse.\n\nIn 2025, the United Nations recorded more than 1,350 attacks on medical care across 18 conflicts. Hospitals and ambulances were hit. Medical personnel were killed, detained, intimidated, or criminalized simply for doing their jobs.\n\nConflict\u2011driven hunger has deepened. 147 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2025, driven largely by armed conflict. Two famines were confirmed \u2013 not because food was unavailable, but because of the way parties conducted hostilities, used siege tactics, and denied humanitarian access. Food has become a weapon of war.\n\nSexual violence remains widespread. The United Nations reported over 9,300 cases last year \u2013 the overwhelming majority women and girls \u2013 many of whom will struggle to get the basic assistance they need. We know that number unfortunately is much higher.\n\nChildren are abducted and recruited to fight. Too many are injured and killed \u2013 a direct result of the use of explosive weapons in densely populated areas. Information and Communication\n\nTechnology, including social media, is used to abduct, to extort, and recruit children.\n\nJournalists are targeted. According to UNESCO \\[the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization\\], 186 journalists were killed while covering wars and conflict zones between 2022 and 2025 \u2013 a 67 per cent increase compared to the period 2018-2021.\n\nPersons with disabilities are left behind when bombs fall and warnings fail.\n\nLast month, the Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, briefed this Council on attacks against humanitarian workers. Since then, eight more colleagues were confirmed killed in 2025\\*.\\*\n\nAlready in 2026, 144 humanitarian workers have been reported killed, injured, abducted or detained as they try to serve those in need.\n\nNew technologies are intensifying these risks. Armed drones and artificial intelligence are accelerating the pace and reach of violence, often in densely populated areas. The use of drones increased by 4,000 per cent from 2020 to 2024 across conflicts.\n\nThe impact is not only physical. The impact is psychological \u2013 constant fear, constant disruption.\n\nThe consequences for children are alarming.\n\nMr. President,\n\nNone of this is inevitable.\n\nThese patterns are the result of choices.\n\nThe choice by parties of conflict to ignore their obligations to protect civilians, and, too often, to target them.\n\nThe choice by some to adopt increasingly permissive interpretations of international humanitarian law, hollowing out the very rules designed to protect civilians during war.\n\nThe choice to subordinate the protection of civilians to claims of military necessity or exceptional threat.\n\nThe choice to let impunity prevail.\n\nThe choice to harness technology to increase lethality, sow devastation, and spread misinformation, instead of using it to better protect civilians.\n\nAnd the choice to attack the United Nations Charter, humanitarian norms, and the tools built over decades \u2013 that extraordinary scaffolding meant to protect people from and during war.\n\nMr. President, excellencies,\n\nMy message to this Council and to the United Nations membership is simple: there is another path. Other choices are possible. They must be made.\n\nThey must be made because protecting civilians, ensuring respect for the law, and ending impunity is not only a legal and moral obligation.\n\nIt is also in Member States\u2019 shared interest.\n\nIn a world where conflicts are rising and rearmament is accelerating, unrestrained force and unapologetic brutality do not make anyone safer. They put everyone at risk.\n\nThose who believe war will never reach them, their families, or their people are living in a dangerous illusion.\n\nWar does not respect borders. It does not respect privileges.\n\nSo, the law exists. The tools exist.\n\nWhat is needed now is the resolve, the leadership, the courage, and the moral clarity to hold the line and to push it forward.\n\nProtecting civilians requires more than expressions of concern.\n\nProtecting civilians requires genuine commitment that translates into concrete action.\n\nTo uphold the United Nations Charter and prevent disagreements from escalating into armed conflict.\n\nTo ensure respect for international humanitarian law, without exceptions, without selectivity, regardless of who the parties are. No reinterpretation. No exceptionalism. No double standards.\n\nTo avoid the use of explosive weapons in populated areas and call out those who raze entire cities to the ground.\n\nTo stop the transfer of weapons when there is a clear risk they will be used against civilians.\n\nTo safeguard medical care, humanitarian personnel and journalists; not stigmatize them, not criminalize them.\n\nTo keep human control over the use of force.\n\nTo steer AI and technology toward greater, not lesser, protection of civilians, protection for civilians.\n\nTo help victims seek justice.\n\nAnd to end impunity.\n\nMr. President,\n\nProtecting civilians in armed conflict is not charity.\n\nIt is the minimum that humanity and civilization require.\n\nIt is central to peace and security.\n\nIt is a responsibility of this Council and of every Member State that signed the United Nations Charter.\n\nAnd it is what many people around the world expect the Member States of the United Nations to do.\n\nIt cannot be outsourced, it cannot be postponed, it cannot be diluted.\n\nIt is the choice we have to make, now.\n\nThank you.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T18:45:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212957","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Lebanon: Conflict Intensity Snapshot (2 March - 19 May 2026)","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T18:34:02+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212955","score":1,"fields":{"title":"New Ebola outbreak hits DRC and Uganda: What you need to know","body":"By **Becca Mountain**\n\n*Families in the eastern DRC and Uganda are facing a new Ebola outbreak alongside conflict, displacement, hunger, and fragile health systems. CARE and local partners are supporting preparedness efforts, with a focus on sharing trusted information, supporting infection prevention, and addressing the heightened risks facing women and girls.*\n\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) declared its [17th Ebola outbreak](https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern) on May 15, 2026, after cases were confirmed in Ituri Province. The region is already heavily affected by [conflict, displacement, hunger, and limited access to healthcare and other basic services](https:\/\/www.afro.who.int\/countries\/democratic-republic-of-congo\/news\/democratic-republic-congo-confirms-new-ebola-outbreak-who-scales-upsupport), all of which make it harder to stop the spread of disease.\n\nThis outbreak involves the [Bundibugyo strain](https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cz72p75zg4qo), a type of Ebola for which there is currently no approved vaccine. As of May 19, authorities [reported](https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ebola\/situation-summary\/index.html) 536 suspected cases, 105 probable cases, 34 confirmed cases, and 134 deaths. However, health experts believe the virus may have been spreading undetected for two to three weeks before the outbreak was officially declared, raising concerns that transmission may be more widespread than current confirmed numbers reflect.\n\nThe World Health Organization has classified the outbreak as a [Public Health Emergency of International Concern](https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/05\/1167531), highlighting the risk of regional spread. Suspected cases have already been [reported](https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/news\/todays-top-news-occupied-palestinian-territory-sudan-ukraine-democratic-republic-congo-2) in Goma, a major transit hub in the DRC, and in [Uganda](https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern), which shares a busy border with the DRC. People regularly cross between nations for work, family visits, trade, health care, and religious gatherings. While this movement is essential to daily life, it can also increase the risk of diseases spreading across borders.\n\nHumanitarian organizations are concerned that [reduced funding across the region](https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/05\/1167474) is straining already fragile health and water systems at a moment when rapid disease detection, community outreach, hygiene access, and public trust are especially critical.\n\n\u201cWe have years of experience of preparing to contain the spread of this killer virus, working alongside local leaders, youth and women\u2019s groups, and community action cells,\u201d [said Dr. Amadou Bocoum, ](https:\/\/www.care.org\/media-and-press\/ebola-emergency-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo\/)CARE country director in the DRC. \u201cBut today we have to do it with a lot less funding, supporting a local health system that is close to collapse and trying to prevent the spread in communities whose access to basic services such as clean water has been decimated by donor aid cuts.\u201d\n\n[Ebola](https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/fact-sheets\/detail\/ebola-disease) is a rare but severe viral illness. It spreads through direct contact with the blood or body fluids of someone who has fallen ill or died from the disease, or through contaminated surfaces and materials. Early symptoms can resemble more common illnesses like the flu, including fever, fatigue, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea \u2014 making fast testing and safe care especially important.\n\nFor families, [Ebola can disrupt every part of daily life](https:\/\/www.care.org\/news-and-stories\/a-family-faces-ebola-in-a-conflict-zone\/). People who become sick need immediate care, but caring for loved ones at home can increase the risk of infection. Survivors may also face fear or stigma when they return to their communities. That is why Ebola response depends not only on medical care, but also on trust: clear, accurate information from people communities know and rely on.\n\nBut trust, testing, and timely care all depend on systems that are already under pressure in Uganda and the DRC. Recent humanitarian and [global health funding cuts](https:\/\/www.infectioncontroltoday.com\/view\/2026-ebola-outbreak-spreads-central-africa-who-warns-growing-crisis-amid-cdc-usaid-cuts) have [reduced support](https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/06\/health\/ebola-uganda-usaid.html) for outbreak preparedness, local health systems, medical supplies, sanitation, community outreach, violence prevention, and more. Infectious disease control professionals in East and Central Africa say those cuts have left health facilities with less protective equipment, [weaker surveillance capacity](https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/19\/relief-group-says-trump-cuts-forced-it-to-scale-back-surveillance-in-ebola-affected-region-00928578), and fewer frontline resources. In crowded displacement settings, delays in testing, referrals, or public information can allow Ebola to spread before families have the support they need.\n\nWomen and girls can face [greater risks](https:\/\/www.care.org\/our-work\/disaster-response\/emergencies\/ebola-crisis-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\/) during an Ebola outbreak. During previous Ebola outbreaks in the DRC, women accounted for [more than half of confirmed and probable cases](https:\/\/www.care.org\/our-work\/disaster-response\/emergencies\/ebola-crisis-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\/). In many households, they are expected to be the primary caregivers for children, older relatives, and family members who are sick.\n\n\u201cAs caregivers, women are at heightened risk of exposure to infection,\u201d said Dr. Bocoum. \u201cA combination of their immense needs already going unmet and the spread of this highly infectious virus could be devastating.\u201d\n\n[Research](https:\/\/genderandcovid-19.org\/resources\/gendered-care-at-the-margins-ebola-gender-and-caregiving-practices-in-ugandas-border-districts\/) in Uganda\u2019s border districts found that women are also more likely to care for sick people at home and participate in burial practices that may increase exposure risk. Disease outbreaks can also disrupt health care, clean water, protection services, and livelihoods. For women and girls, that can mean reduced access to maternal health care, family planning, routine medical support, and services around preventing violence against women and girls \u2014 with consequences that can last long after an outbreak is contained. [UNFPA](https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1186\/s13031-021-00419-9) has also warned that, in communities already affected by conflict and displacement, the economic effects of disease outbreaks can increase the risk of sexual exploitation and abuse for women and children.\n\n\u201cThousands of women and their families already struggling to survive hunger, displacement, and violence in the eastern DRC now face, again, the terrifying threat of Ebola,\u201d Dr. Bocoum concluded.\n\nCARE has supported [previous Ebola responses in the DRC](https:\/\/www.care.org\/our-work\/disaster-response\/emergencies\/ebola-crisis-in-the-democratic-republic-of-congo\/), including during the 2018 outbreak in North Kivu. That outbreak became one of the most complex Ebola responses in the country\u2019s history because it unfolded in an active conflict zone. [CARE\u2019s work focused on filling critical gaps in water, sanitation, and hygiene](https:\/\/www.care.org\/news-and-stories\/its-a-race-to-save-lives\/); community engagement and public information campaigns; infection prevention training; and distribution of personal protective equipment for frontline workers. CARE also distributed dignity kits for women and girls containing supplies such as soap, hand sanitizer, sanitary pads, underwear, and other essential items.\n\nAcross communities at risk today, CARE\u2019s preparedness work includes sharing accurate health information through trusted local channels, reinforcing good hygiene practices to reduce the spread of illness, supporting health referrals, and working with local partners to help people understand how to protect themselves and when to seek care. In Uganda, CARE is supporting the Ministry of Health\u2019s [Ebola preparedness measures](https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/17-05-2026-epidemic-of-ebola-disease-in-the-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-and-uganda-determined-a-public-health-emergency-of-international-concern), including screening and surveillance at points of entry, rapid response readiness in high-risk districts, isolation planning, infection prevention and control, and public risk communication.\n\nCARE is also mobilizing emergency response efforts targeting between 500,000 and 1 million people in affected and high-risk areas, including Ituri Province, key health zones in North Kivu, and selected urban and cross-border locations. Priority will be given to communities in transmission hotspots, health workers, displaced and mobile populations, and high-risk groups, including women and girls. CARE Uganda will continue monitoring the outbreak, updating staff and partner safety guidance, and adapting field operations as needed. If requested by government authorities or partners, and if additional funding becomes available, CARE is prepared to scale up community-based support in high-risk areas.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":240,"name":"Uganda","shortname":"Uganda","iso3":"uga","location":{"lat":1.28,"lon":32.39}}],"source":[{"name":"CARE"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T18:03:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212953","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Atrocity Alert No. 483: Nigeria, Haiti and Iran","body":"*Atrocity Alert is a weekly publication by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect highlighting situations where populations are at risk of, or are enduring, mass atrocity crimes.*\n\n## **ESCALATING CIVILIAN CASUALTIES FROM AIRSTRIKES IN NIGERIA AND THE LAKE CHAD BASIN**\n\nAirstrikes conducted as part of government counterterrorism and anti-banditry operations in [Nigeria](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/nigeria\/) and the wider [Lake Chad Basin](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/lake-chad-basin-boko-haram\/) continue to pose a grave risk to civilians. At least 100 civilians \u2013 including a significant number of women and girls \u2013 were reportedly killed in a Nigerian military airstrike on Tumfa market in Zurmi District, Zamfara State, on 10 May. Witnesses said military aircraft were seen circling the area around midday before returning hours later and striking the busy market. Amnesty International\u2019s office in Nigeria described the scene as \u201cchaotic\u201d with \u201cscreams, blood and bodies all over the ground.\u201d Following the attack, Amnesty International warned that \u201cthis pattern of human rights violations is increasingly becoming the norm, with villagers at the receiving end of atrocities by both armed groups, bandits and the military.\u201d\n\nIn [recent years](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-376\/), air operations have become an integral tactic in the Nigerian authorities\u2019 counterterrorism and anti-banditry efforts against armed extremist groups \u2014 including Boko Haram and the so-called Islamic State in West Africa Province \u2014 as well as armed bandit groups in the northwest. These operations have intensified in response to escalating insecurity in the Lake Chad Basin, where armed groups continue to attack civilians and security forces, but have repeatedly resulted in civilian harm, particularly when they hit markets and other densely populated civilian areas. On 11 April the Nigerian Air Force [carried out an airstrike](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-478\/) on a crowded market in Jilli village in northeastern Nigeria, reportedly killing at least 200 civilians.\n\nRisks to civilians are further compounded by cross-border military operations in the wider Lake Chad Basin \u2013 encompassing [Cameroon](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/cameroon\/), Chad, [Niger](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/niger\/) and Nigeria \u2013 where regional forces are also conducting campaigns against Boko Haram and affiliated armed groups. Between 8 and 10 May Chadian fighter jets reportedly bombed islands on the Nigerian side of Lake Chad believed to be under Boko Haram control. According to local fishermen who escaped the attacks, at least 40 fishermen went missing and are feared to have drowned because of the airstrikes.\n\nIn response, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T\u00fcrk stressed, \u201cIt is crucial that both Nigerian and Chadian authorities conduct prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigations into these disturbing incidents and ensure that those responsible for any violations are held to account, in accordance with international standards.\u201d\n\nNigerian and Chadian authorities should strengthen civilian harm mitigation measures, including improved intelligence verification, targeting procedures and precautionary steps to ensure compliance with the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution. Independent and transparent investigations must be promptly carried out into all allegations of civilian harm resulting from airstrikes. Those responsible for violations of international humanitarian and human rights law should be identified and held accountable. The international community should also press both governments to reinforce accountability mechanisms and adopt stronger civilian protection policies in military operations.\n\n## **INTENSE RIVAL GANG CLASHES CONTINUE TO ENDANGER CIVILIANS IN HAITI**\n\nIntensifying clashes between rival gang factions in [Haiti](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/haiti\/) erupted on 10 May, killing at least 78 people, injuring 66 others and displacing more than 5,300 residents in Cit\u00e9 Soleil and Croix-des-Bouquets on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. While there is no confirmed overall civilian death toll yet, initial reporting from the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said 10 civilians were among those killed. Homes and civilian property were also burned, while families fled and sheltered along major roadways amid ongoing gunfire.\n\nThe clashes disrupted access to healthcare and other essential service, forcing La Fontaine Hospital to evacuate patients and suspend operations on 12 May \u2013 the second time this year it has been forced to close. The announcement came one day after M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res reported treating dozens of gunshot victims in less than 12 hours before suspending operations in Cit\u00e9 Soleil.\n\nWitnesses told local media that the violence allegedly involved the Duvivier and Pierre 6 gangs against the Chen Mechan, 400 Mawozo and Taliban gangs. Although these groups belong to the same Viv Ansanm coalition, clashes between factions are not unusual as gangs compete for territorial control and revenue streams.\n\nThe latest violence follows months of sporadic clashes in Cit\u00e9 Soleil and Croix-des-Bouquets. Earlier outbreaks between rival gangs during March and April displaced thousands and caused significant casualties, highlighting the continued exposure of civilians to what the UN Human Rights Office has described as a \u201c[vortex of violence.](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-476\/)\u201d The deadly incidents also reflect the limited capacity of authorities to protect populations facing heightened risks across Port-au-Prince and, increasingly, the [Artibonite](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-421\/) and [Centre](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-462\/) departments.\n\nWhile recent security operations have limited some expansion of violence in parts of Port-au-Prince, widespread abuses \u2013 including killings, kidnappings and sexual violence \u2013 persist. Security forces themselves have been also been implicated in violations. According to BINUH, at least 1,642 people were killed and 745 injured between January and March. More than 69 percent of these casualties resulted from operations by security forces, sometimes with support from a private military company using drones. BINUH also documented continued allegations of executions and attempted summary executions involving the police.\n\nOngoing insecurity has contributed to a sharp rise in sexual and gender-based violence. During the first quarter of the year, gangs were responsible for acts of sexual violence against 292 victims, mainly women and girls aged 12 to 17. According to BINUH, gang rape remained the primary violation, accounting for 83 percent of documented incidents. Gangs systematically use sexual violence, including collective rape, sexual slavery and mutilation, to exert territorial control and punish communities.\n\nThe recurrent clashes between rival gang factions demonstrate the fragmented and volatile security environment in Haiti. National and international partners should urgently strengthen civilian protection measures. Haitian authorities should accelerate police vetting, investigate all alleged violations and ensure accountability by fully operationalizing the specialized judicial units for mass crimes, including sexual violence and killings. Donors should also increase humanitarian funding to support affected communities.\n\n## **IRANIANS FACE DEEPENING STATE REPRESSION AMID FRAGILE US-IRAN CEASEFIRE**\n\nFive months after a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests in January, reports have emerged of [increasing repression](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/atrocity-alert-no-468\/) by [Iranian](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/countries\/iran\/) authorities against its population. Since 28 February over 4,000 people are estimated to have been arrested on charges related to national security and at least 21 have been executed, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Individuals have been executed on charges relating to their participation in protests, alleged affiliation with opposition groups and supposed espionage.\n\nDuring the January protests against the deepening economic crisis and state repression, thousands of individuals \u2013 with some estimates as high as 50,000 \u2013 were arrested. Thousands of Iranians were also killed, with estimates reaching tens of thousands. Many individuals remain detained, raising concerns over the risk of torture, coerced confessions and capital punishment. Ethnic and religious minority communities remain particularly vulnerable. In January the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran (FFMI) reviewed reports of brutal crackdowns by authorities in ethnic minority provinces, while several Kurdish individuals are reported to be among those recently executed. The FFMI has also warned that ongoing violations by Iranian authorities may amount to crimes against humanity.\n\nMeanwhile, Iranian authorities have maintained a near-total internet shutdown for 80 days \u2013 marking one of the longest shutdowns globally \u2013 in what Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran, warned has made it \u201cimpossible to grasp the full understanding of the human rights situation in the country.\u201d\n\nThese domestic human rights concerns continue to unfold alongside regional instability since 28 February, when the United States (US) and Israel launched a [joint military attack](https:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/publications\/statement-on-the-recent-developments-in-the-middle-east\/) on Iran. A [briefing paper](https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/documents\/mde13\/0883\/2026\/en\/) by Amnesty International underscored the \u201cdual atrocity risks\u201d faced by Iranians trapped between unlawful US-Israeli strikes and intensifying domestic repression, all while under a tenuous ceasefire.\n\nFollowing an ongoing extension to an initial temporary ceasefire agreed on 8 April, recent clashes between US and Iranian vessels in the Strait of Hormuz have tested the truce. Continued disagreements between the US and Iran, including threats of renewed US strikes, have also prevented agreement on a permanent end to hostilities. Over 3,000 Iranians were estimated to have been killed during US-Israeli attacks between 28 February and 8 April, while dozens of educational, medical and energy facilities were damaged or destroyed, including in incidents that may amount to war crimes.\n\nAll states with influence must press for a permanent ceasefire between Iran and the US, including across the region. Iranian authorities must refrain from using intimidation tactics to repress dissent, including the use of capital punishment, and release all protesters detained for exercising their human rights. The international community must ensure investigations into, and accountability for, potential atrocity crimes committed by Iranian, US and Israeli authorities.","country":[{"id":175,"name":"Nigeria","shortname":"Nigeria","iso3":"nga","location":{"lat":9.59,"lon":8.11},"primary":true},{"id":113,"name":"Haiti","shortname":"Haiti","iso3":"hti","location":{"lat":19.18,"lon":-72.43}},{"id":121,"name":"Iran (Islamic Republic of)","shortname":"Iran","iso3":"irn","location":{"lat":32.57,"lon":54.3}}],"source":[{"name":"Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T17:33:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212944","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Comunicado de prensa conjunto \u2013 Las agencias de la ONU advierten del agravamiento de la crisis de hambre y malnutrici\u00f3n en Somalia ante el riesgo de hambruna","body":"La inseguridad alimentaria y la malnutrici\u00f3n se agravan en toda Somalia, al confirmarse el primer riesgo de hambruna desde la crisis de 2022, en medio de los efectos acumulativos de m\u00faltiples crisis.  \n  \nMOGADISHU, Somalia \u2013 La Organizaci\u00f3n de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentaci\u00f3n y la Agricultura (FAO), la Oficina de Coordinaci\u00f3n de Asuntos Humanitarios de las Naciones Unidas (OCHA), el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF) y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos han advertido hoy de una emergencia alimentaria que se agrava r\u00e1pidamente en Somalia y que est\u00e1 empujando a 6 millones de personas \u2014el 31 % de la poblaci\u00f3n\u2014 a niveles cr\u00edticos de inseguridad alimentaria (fase 3 del IPC o superior) entre abril y junio de 2026. Esto incluye ahora una de las peores crisis de desnutrici\u00f3n del mundo, que afecta a aproximadamente 1,9 millones de ni\u00f1os, de los cuales 493 000 sufren desnutrici\u00f3n aguda grave y tienen un riesgo de muerte 12 veces mayor que los ni\u00f1os bien alimentados.\n\nDe las personas que se prev\u00e9 que sufran inseguridad alimentaria aguda, cerca de 1,9 millones se encuentran en situaci\u00f3n de emergencia (fase 4 de la IPC), una cifra que se ha triplicado en menos de un a\u00f1o, seg\u00fan el \u00faltimo [informe de an\u00e1lisis](https:\/\/www.ipcinfo.org\/ipcinfo-website\/countries-in-focus-archive\/issue-150\/en\/) de [la Clasificaci\u00f3n Integrada de las Fases de Seguridad Alimentaria (IPC).](https:\/\/www.ipcinfo.org\/ipcinfo-website\/countries-in-focus-archive\/issue-150\/en\/) Mientras tanto, las poblaciones que dependen de medios de vida agropastorales en el distrito de Burhakaba, en la regi\u00f3n de Bay, al suroeste de Somalia, se enfrentan al riesgo de hambruna si se da el peor de los escenarios: que fallen las lluvias de la temporada Gu, de abril a junio; que los precios de los alimentos sigan aumentando dr\u00e1sticamente; y que la ayuda humanitaria no se ampl\u00ede para llegar a las poblaciones m\u00e1s vulnerables hasta junio de 2026. Casi el 40 % de los ni\u00f1os menores de cinco a\u00f1os de esta zona ya sufren malnutrici\u00f3n aguda.\n\nEste es el primer an\u00e1lisis del riesgo de hambruna desde la crisis de 2022, cuando se evit\u00f3 la hambruna gracias a intervenciones humanitarias masivas y sostenidas tras la sequ\u00eda m\u00e1s prolongada de la historia. El actual agravamiento de la crisis se debe a m\u00faltiples factores, entre ellos una grave sequ\u00eda, la inseguridad, una ayuda humanitaria extremadamente limitada, las repercusiones del conflicto en Oriente Medio y el mayor riesgo de inundaciones en las zonas ribere\u00f1as y de baja altitud. Los precios de los alimentos \u2014vinculados al aumento de los precios del combustible y a las interrupciones de la cadena de suministro mar\u00edtima\u2014 han subido hasta un 20 %, lo que ha debilitado el poder adquisitivo de los hogares y ha empujado a las familias al borde del abismo.\n\nLas crisis acumuladas se han visto agravadas por una importante reducci\u00f3n de los servicios y la asistencia humanitaria debido a graves restricciones de financiaci\u00f3n. Se han cerrado m\u00e1s de 500 centros de salud y de nutrici\u00f3n en todo el pa\u00eds por falta de financiaci\u00f3n, lo que ha impedido controlar los brotes de enfermedades y ha aumentado los riesgos de mortalidad. El n\u00famero total de casos de sarampi\u00f3n en toda Somalia se ha duplicado entre enero y marzo de 2026 en comparaci\u00f3n con el primer trimestre de 2025, lo que afecta especialmente a los ni\u00f1os vulnerables y que ya padecen malnutrici\u00f3n aguda.\n\nLa asistencia humanitaria en las zonas de mayor riesgo, incluida Burhakaba, se est\u00e1 ampliando dentro de unos recursos muy limitados. Sin embargo, la cobertura sigue siendo limitada a nivel nacional, y casi el 90 % de la poblaci\u00f3n recibe poco o ning\u00fan apoyo. [El Plan de Necesidades Humanitarias y Respuesta de Somalia para 2026 cuenta actualmente con](https:\/\/fts.unocha.org\/countries\/206\/summary\/2026) una financiaci\u00f3n de solo el 15,2 %.\n\nAl mismo tiempo, las previsiones emergentes sobre El Ni\u00f1o apuntan a un mayor riesgo de inundaciones a finales de a\u00f1o, y algunas zonas a lo largo del r\u00edo Shabelle ya est\u00e1n experimentando caudales superiores a la media que podr\u00edan intensificarse antes de lo esperado. Junto con los continuos efectos del conflicto en Oriente Medio y el apoyo insuficiente, las previsiones sugieren que los niveles de inseguridad alimentaria aguda y malnutrici\u00f3n seguir\u00e1n siendo elevados hasta finales de 2026.\n\nLa FAO, la OCHA, UNICEF y WFP hacen un llamamiento para que se ampl\u00ede urgentemente la asistencia humanitaria multisectorial que salva vidas \u2014seguridad alimentaria, nutrici\u00f3n, salud y agua, saneamiento e higiene (WASH)\u2014 para las poblaciones en la Fase 3 del IPC y superiores, incluidas aquellas que se enfrentan a un riesgo de hambruna. Una financiaci\u00f3n sostenida y predecible es fundamental para prevenir una cat\u00e1strofe humanitaria.\n\n\u00abEl an\u00e1lisis del IPC dibuja un panorama sombr\u00edo y urgente, con un n\u00famero creciente de ni\u00f1os desnutridos y un riesgo confirmado de hambruna en el distrito de Burhakaba. Sin el apoyo inmediato y sostenido de los donantes, la di\u00e1spora y el sector privado, corremos el riesgo de que se produzca ante nuestros ojos una cat\u00e1strofe que se podr\u00eda haber evitado. Debemos actuar ahora, a gran escala y sin demora, para salvar vidas y evitar que ocurra lo peor\u00bb, afirma George Conway, coordinador humanitario para Somalia.\n\n\u00abEl pa\u00eds se encuentra en un punto de inflexi\u00f3n\u00bb, afirm\u00f3 Etienne Peterschmitt, representante de la FAO en Somalia. \u00abLa grave y prolongada sequ\u00eda que ha devastado los medios de subsistencia, unida al conflicto en Oriente Medio que ha disparado los precios de los alimentos y el combustible, y el creciente riesgo de graves inundaciones vinculadas a El Ni\u00f1o, significa que el pa\u00eds se encuentra una vez m\u00e1s al borde del precipicio del riesgo de hambruna. Las crisis concurrentes y recurrentes est\u00e1n ejerciendo una presi\u00f3n a\u00fan mayor sobre las comunidades vulnerables. Somos conscientes de que los recursos son m\u00e1s escasos que nunca, pero debemos actuar ahora y responder a una escala suficiente para salvar vidas y medios de subsistencia, especialmente en las zonas rurales, donde las necesidades son mayores\u00bb.\n\n\u00abEn toda Somalia, los ni\u00f1os se enfrentan a una crisis que empeora r\u00e1pidamente y el tiempo se agota. Aunque las comunidades y los trabajadores de primera l\u00ednea siguen mostrando resiliencia, no pueden hacerlo solos. UNICEF est\u00e1 ampliando urgentemente la ayuda vital. Con una acci\u00f3n r\u00e1pida, a\u00fan podemos salvar vidas y defender el derecho de todos los ni\u00f1os a sobrevivir y prosperar\u00bb, afirma la representante de UNICEF en Somalia, la Sra. Sandra Lattouf.\n\n\u00abEstamos llegando a un punto en el que [cualquier retraso m\u00e1s](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/stories\/somalia-racing-reverse-hunger-tide) podr\u00eda costar vidas\u00bb, afirm\u00f3 Hameed Nuru, director nacional del WFP en Somalia. \u00abLas familias han agotado sus mecanismos de supervivencia, los servicios y la asistencia de emergencia son extremadamente limitados, y los ni\u00f1os est\u00e1n cayendo en la desnutrici\u00f3n grave en todo el pa\u00eds. Estamos preparados para ampliar nuestra respuesta de inmediato y llegar a las comunidades m\u00e1s afectadas, pero sin un apoyo inmediato, la asistencia vital se agotar\u00e1 cuando m\u00e1s se necesite\u00bb.\n\n\\# # #\n\n**Acerca del WFP**\n\nEl Programa Mundial de Alimentos de las Naciones Unidas es la organizaci\u00f3n humanitaria m\u00e1s grande del mundo, que salva vidas en emergencias y utiliza la asistencia alimentaria para allanar el camino hacia la paz, la estabilidad y la prosperidad de las personas que se recuperan de conflictos, desastres y los efectos del cambio clim\u00e1tico.\n\nS\u00edguenos en X, antes Twitter, a trav\u00e9s de @wfp\\_media\n\n**Contacto**\n\nSara Cuevas Gallardo, WFP\/Mogadiscio, +252 771 641 746\/+591 771 771 172  \nAzfar Deen, WFP\/Nairobi, M\u00f3vil +39 345 846 6425  \nJulian Miglierini, WFP\/Roma, M\u00f3vil +39 348 2316793  \nMartin Rentsch, WFP\/Berl\u00edn, M\u00f3vil +49 160 99 26 17 30  \nShaza Moghraby, WFP\/Nueva York, M\u00f3vil + 1 929 289 9867  \nRene McGuffin, WFP\/Washington, M\u00f3vil +1 771 245 4268  \nNicola Kelly, WFP\/Londres, M\u00f3vil +44 (0)796 8008 474","country":[{"id":216,"name":"Somalia","shortname":"Somalia","iso3":"som","location":{"lat":5.79,"lon":47.33},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"},{"name":"UN Children's Fund"},{"name":"UNDP\/OCHA Connecting Business initiative"},{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T16:03:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212942","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Nigeria 2026: Lean Season (An Unprecedented Food and Nutrition Crisis) Advocacy Note","body":"1. Communities across Nigeria are bracing for one of the worst lean seasons on record. Millions of families will be forced to reduce meals, sell productive assets and withdraw children from school.\n2. Almost 35 million people nationwide are expected to face acute food insecurity during the 2026 lean season, making Nigeria one of the world's largest hunger crises, with the burden falling overwhelmingly on northern Nigeria.\n3. The risk of excess mortality from hunger, malnutrition and disease rises sharply between June and August, and urgent, front loaded funding is required to scale up life saving assistance ahead of peak needs.\n4. Urgent humanitarian action is needed to address immediate life-saving needs while Government and development actors work to address the root causes of the hunger crisis.\n\n\\[...\\]","country":[{"id":175,"name":"Nigeria","shortname":"Nigeria","iso3":"nga","location":{"lat":9.59,"lon":8.11},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T15:56:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212940","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Action Against Hunger Warns of Virus Impact on Communities","body":"**18 May 2026 \u2013** Following the confirmation of Ebola cases in Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the World Health Organization has declared an international health emergency. Action Against Hunger is warning of the consequences of this outbreak for communities already weakened by the ongoing conflict.\n\n\u201cThe situation is evolving extremely rapidly. It is still difficult to confirm the number of cases and deaths, as the outbreak is believed to have started in early April but was only identified on the 14th of May. Numerous contacts have been identified, particularly in the Mongbwalu health zone, where we are working, but also on the outskirts of Bunia, and a case has just been confirmed in Goma,\u201d explains Julie Drouet, Country Director for Action Against Hunger in the DRC. \u201cThis is the Bundibungyo strain, for which no vaccine or treatment exists\u201d\n\n\u201cMongbwalu, where we are one of the only organizations on the ground, is a mining area with a lot of traffic and population movement in the country and region, which complicates efforts to control this virus and trace cases.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are deeply concerned about the situation given the extremely high level of humanitarian needs. In Ituri province, our teams on the ground have already begun raising awareness among medical staff by purchasing and distributing protective equipment to limit the risk of infection in health centers,\u201d says Drouet.\n\nAgainst this backdrop of widespread funding cuts, Action Against Hunger is calling for a strong mobilization from the international community and donors to ensure an appropriate response.\n\nDrouet says, \u201cHealthcare workers are the first to be exposed to the risk of infection. It is urgent to fund the response to this crisis in order to limit the spread of the epidemic and maintain humanitarian assistance in the affected areas so as not to abandon the population during such an outbreak.\u201d","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Action Against Hunger"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T15:33:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212935","score":1,"fields":{"title":"R\u00e9publique centrafricaine : Rapport de situation N\u00b068, au 19 mai 2026","body":"**FAITS SAILLANTS**\n\n- Recrudescence d\u2019incidents de protection dans un contexte de retours volontaires\n- Des pluies et vents violents font des victimes dans la pr\u00e9fecture de Bamingui-Bangoran\n- 1 000 rapatri\u00e9s spontan\u00e9s install\u00e9s dans des conditions pr\u00e9caires \u00e0 Mobaye\n\n**CONTEXTE GENERAL**\n\nPr\u00e9fecture de Baminqui-Bangoran \u2013 Nord-Est\n\n- 25 personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 bless\u00e9es et 41 habitations ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9truites, le 14 mai, suite \u00e0 de fortes pluies accompagn\u00e9es de vents violents dans le village d\u2019Akroussoulbak, situ\u00e9 \u00e0 80 kilom\u00e8tres au nord-ouest de Nd\u00e9l\u00e9. Les bless\u00e9s ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9vacu\u00e9s vers l\u2019h\u00f4pital de Nd\u00e9l\u00e9 avec l\u2019appui de la MINUSCA pour y recevoir des soins. Les acteurs humanitaires se mobilisent afin d\u2019\u00e9valuer les besoins urgents et d\u2019appuyer la r\u00e9ponse en faveur des communaut\u00e9s affect\u00e9es\n\nPr\u00e9fecture du Haut-Mbomou \u2013 Sud-Est\n\n- 14 civils, dont quatre filles, trois gar\u00e7ons et sept femmes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 victimes d\u2019incidents de protection attribu\u00e9s \u00e0 des \u00e9l\u00e9ments arm\u00e9s \u00e0 Z\u00e9mio. Trois cas de viol, dont celui d\u2019une adolescente, ainsi que des braquages et des confiscations de biens (argent, t\u00e9l\u00e9phones) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 signal\u00e9s. Ces \u00e9l\u00e9ments arm\u00e9s sont impliqu\u00e9s dans plusieurs violations des droits humains \u00e0 l\u2019encontre des civils, ce qui pourrait compromettre la dynamique de retour observ\u00e9e ces derniers mois. Entre d\u00e9cembre 2025 et d\u00e9but janvier 2026, une recrudescence d\u2019affrontements arm\u00e9s dans le Haut\u2011Mbomou avait d\u00e9j\u00e0 fortement d\u00e9grad\u00e9 l\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire et provoqu\u00e9 le d\u00e9placement de milliers de personnes vers Zapa\u00ef, en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC) et vers des sites de regroupement \u00e0 Z\u00e9mio (442 m\u00e9nages, 2 028 personnes). Depuis fin f\u00e9vrier 2026, une accalmie li\u00e9e aux efforts de m\u00e9diation de la plateforme religieuse nationale et le Comit\u00e9 local de paix et de r\u00e9conciliation (CLPR) de Zemio a toutefois permis le retour d\u2019environ 2 700 personnes depuis la RDC vers Kitessa, \u00e0 45 km de Zemio. Ce contexte \u00e9volutif co\u00efncide \u00e9galement avec une recrudescence des pr\u00e9occupations sanitaires r\u00e9gionales. Le 15 mai, le gouvernement de la RDC a confirm\u00e9 une nouvelle flamb\u00e9e d\u2019Ebola dans la province de l\u2019Ituri. En r\u00e9action \u00e0 cette alerte sanitaire, les autorit\u00e9s centrafricaines ont annonc\u00e9, dans un communiqu\u00e9 officiel publi\u00e9 le 16 mai, l\u2019activation du Centre op\u00e9rationnel d\u2019urgence de sant\u00e9 publique (COUSP) afin de renforcer le suivi et la surveillance de la situation.\n\n**BESOINS ET REPONSE HUMANITAIRE**\n\n**Multisectoriel**\n\nPr\u00e9fecture de la Basse-Kotto \u2013 Sud-Est\n\n- Depuis fin d\u00e9cembre 2025, un mouvement progressif de retour de ressortissants centrafricains pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s en RDC est signal\u00e9 \u00e0 Mobaye. Ces personnes avaient quitt\u00e9 le pays en raison de l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 qui pr\u00e9valait entre 2017 et 2018. Au 15 mai, environ 1 000 rapatri\u00e9s spontan\u00e9s \u00e9taient install\u00e9s derri\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9cole de Langandji. Ces personnes retourn\u00e9es vivent dans des conditions pr\u00e9caires et pr\u00e9sentent des besoins urgents en abris, vivres, articles m\u00e9nagers essentiels ainsi qu\u2019en services de base en eau, hygi\u00e8ne et assainissement. \u00c0 la suite d\u2019une mission de terrain, les autorit\u00e9s locales ont d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de relocaliser ces populations hors de l\u2019enceinte scolaire afin de garantir la continuit\u00e9 des activit\u00e9s \u00e9ducatives et de faciliter l\u2019organisation de l\u2019assistance sur un site plus accessible. Une mobilisation est en cours pour \u00e9valuer les besoins prioritaires et de coordonner la r\u00e9ponse humanitaire.\n\nPr\u00e9fecture du Mbomou \u2013 Sud-Est\n\n- L\u2019organisation APSUD, avec l\u2019appui du Fonds des Nations Unies pour l\u2019enfance (UNICEF) sur financement du CERF, a distribu\u00e9 du 11 au 15 mai, des kits d\u2019assistance \u00e0 67 filles-m\u00e8res \u00e0 Rafa\u00ef. Chaque kit comprend des articles essentiels, notamment un bidon, du savon, des serviettes hygi\u00e9niques, une bouilloire, un pot de toilette pour enfant, une bassine, un seau et un gobelet. Cette assistance vise \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer les conditions d\u2019hygi\u00e8ne et le bien-\u00eatre des enfants. Par ailleurs, 10 lampadaires solaires ont \u00e9t\u00e9 install\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital secondaire de Rafa\u00ef afin d\u2019am\u00e9liorer l\u2019\u00e9clairage, de renforcer la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et de faciliter l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux services de sant\u00e9 pendant la nuit.\n\n\\[...\\]\n\n**Eau, hygi\u00e8ne et assainissement (EHA)**\n\nPr\u00e9fecture de Bamingui Bangora \u2013 Nord-Est\n\n- Intersos en partenariat avec Action d\u2019Urgence pour la R\u00e9silience et le D\u00e9veloppement (AURD) et avec le soutien de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne, a construit, du 11 au 15 mai, 40 latrines dans le village Zoukoutouniala et sur le site des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s soudanais au profit des m\u00e9nages les plus vuln\u00e9rables. Suite \u00e0 cette intervention, des visites de suivi ont \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9es \u00e0 Gozamar 1 et 2 o\u00f9 25 latrines avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9c\u00e9demment construites. Ces visites ont permis de sensibiliser les b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires au respect des bonnes pratiques d\u2019hygi\u00e8ne et d\u2019assainissement.\n\n\\[...\\]","country":[{"id":54,"name":"Central African Republic","shortname":"CAR","iso3":"caf","location":{"lat":6.57,"lon":20.48},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T14:57:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212933","score":1,"fields":{"title":"IOM Solomon Islands: Tropical Cyclone Maila Situation Report No. 2 (12 May 2026)","body":"**HIGHLIGHTS**\n\n- At least **844 persons are displaced across 7 communities** visited by IOM in Western Province and a further **120 persons** have reportedly been displaced in Choiseul (based on NEOC reporting) as a result of Category 4 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Maila, which formed as a Tropical Cyclone on 04 April and continued to develop in strength, lingering over the Solomon Sea until 10 April 2026 where it began moving West\/Southwest to Papua New Guinea (PNG) and gradually weakened to a tropical low by 11 April 2026\n- On the 10 April, the government declared a **State of Disaster for Western and Choiseul provinces**, with significant impacts also sustained in Isabel and some communities in Central and Guadalcanal Weather Coast. The most severely impacted locations include Nusa and Lengana communities in Simbo Island\n- **Damage reported includes critical infrastructure** with 21 health facilities and 59 schools damaged, affecting at least 2000 children in Western and Choiseul provinces. Widespread environmental damage reported, including vegetation and loss of food gardens. Concern for potential health outbreaks because of groundwater contamination and damaged water systems\n- Number of displaced is expected to increase, as IOM rapid response personnel working with NDMO and Provincial Government Authorities and partners (ADRA, Red Cross and UN) in Western Province to carry out Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) displacement tracking, while also looking to expand operations to Choiseul Province and other affected communities\n- IOM, through support from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), has supported Western Provincial Government with **360 sets of Non-Food Items (NFIs)** which were released from Gizo warehouse on 16 April and distributed to affected communities. A further **370 sets of NFIs** are expected to arrive in Honiara by 01 May for transportation to Western Province and handover to Provincial Government by mid-May. Items include WASH\/hygiene kits, blankets, jerry cans, kitchen sets, rope, sleeping mats, solar lamps, tarpaulins and indoor partitioning\/pop up tents","country":[{"id":215,"name":"Solomon Islands","shortname":"Solomon Islands","iso3":"slb","location":{"lat":-8.92,"lon":159.63},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T14:33:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212931","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cluster sant\u00e9 Tchad: veille informationnelle des activit\u00e9s des membres du cluster - Semaine du 11 au 17 mai 2026","body":"**Activit\u00e9s et faits saillants :**\n\n- D\u00e9marrage de trois cliniques mobiles dans \u00e0 Hadjer Hadid par IMC ;\n- Supervisions cliniques \u00e0 Yagom\u00e9, Arkoum et Allacha, avec organisation d\u2019un d\u00e9briefing \u00e0 Arkoum Extension sur les premiers secours psychologiques \u00e0 destination des relais communautaires et du personnel MS.\n- Participation \u00e0 la restitution de la campagne AVS au Ouadda\u00ef, marqu\u00e9e par un taux de couverture de 104 %, avec l\u2019implication des ECD et partenaires (IRC, UNICEF, OMS, ONG nationales) ;\n- Organisation de sessions de coaching pour 06 agents MS au niveau de Mile, Marassabr\u00e9 et Gu\u00e9r\u00e9da, ax\u00e9es sur le reporting et le calcul des indicateurs UNA\/UNS, contribuant au renforcement des capacit\u00e9s en gestion des donn\u00e9es et suivi des performances ;\n- Organisation d\u2019une formation des superviseurs sant\u00e9-nutrition \u00e0 Mongo sur le th\u00e8me \u00ab Comment devenir un bon superviseur \u00bb.\n\n**Recommandations :**\n\n- Manque de moyens de d\u00e9placement pour la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence des malades \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital de Guereda.","country":[{"id":55,"name":"Chad","shortname":"Chad","iso3":"tcd","location":{"lat":15.36,"lon":18.66},"primary":true},{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30}}],"source":[{"name":"Health Cluster"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T14:17:25+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212927","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Guatemala May 2026 Country Brief","body":"SITUATION OVERVIEW\n\n\u2022 Food insecurity remains a critical concern in 2026. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) projections for February\u2013April 2026 indicate that up to 3 million people in Guatemala \u2014approximately 16 percent of the population\u2014 are expected to face acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), including nearly 250,000 people in Emergency (IPC Phase 4).\n\n\u2022 These acute needs coincide with the onset of the May\u2013August lean season, a period during which household food reserves are typically depleted, seasonal employment opportunities decline, and vulnerable families become increasingly reliant on markets to meet their basic food needs.\n\n\u2022 The food security outlook is further compounded by elevated climate risks. Official forecasts indicate a probability exceeding 80 percent that Guatemala will transition to El Ni\u00f1o conditions from May 2026 onwards, with projections pointing to a pronounced dry spell and a significant, protracted water deficit.\n\n\u2022 The Ministry of Agriculture has warned that 2026 could resemble the conditions observed in 2014, when intensified can\u00edcula peaks, crop losses, and deteriorating food security and nutrition outcomes were recorded. This context underscores the urgency of early action to protect livelihoods, safeguard food consumption, and prevent further deterioration in nutrition outcomes.","country":[{"id":109,"name":"Guatemala","shortname":"Guatemala","iso3":"gtm","location":{"lat":15.61,"lon":-90.39},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:59:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212925","score":1,"fields":{"title":"\u2018It is a legal responsibility we have to the world\u2019s children and future generations\u2019: UN votes on ICJ climate ruling","body":"**LONDON\/GENEVA, 20 May 2026 -** The UN General Assembly will vote today on a landmark International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that outlines governments have legal obligations to combat climate change, a long awaited move that could help to protect children\u2019s futures, Save the Children said.\n\nThe world's top court [ruled last year](https:\/\/www.icj-cij.org\/sites\/default\/files\/case-related\/187\/187-20250723-pre-01-00-en.pdf) that states were obliged to tackle climate change under international law, and failing to do so would pave the way for \"reparations\" to vulnerable countries. The ICJ explicitly recognised that climate change profoundly impacts human rights, specifically the fundamental rights of children to health, education, and safety.\n\n**Matilde Angeltveit, Senior Advisor and Global Climate Advocacy Lead, Save the Children, said:**\n\n*\u201cClimate action is not just about managing global risk; it is a legal responsibility we have to the world\u2019s children and future generations. The ICJ Advisory on climate change was clear: countries have a legal obligation to protect the climate from greenhouse gas emissions and countries must pursue the highest possible ambition to keep global warming within 1.5\u00b0C.*\n\n*\u201cSave the Children calls on members states to support the adoption of the resolution as a powerful signal to the world and as a promise to our children that world leaders are listening to young people and they are committed to taking action to advance intergenerational justice and equity.\u201d*\n\n**ENDS**\n\n\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\\*\n\nFor further enquiries please contact:\n\nAmy Lefevre, Global Media Manager: amy.lefevre@savethechildren.org\n\nGlobal Media Unit, GMU@savethechildren.org\n\nOur media out of hours (GMT) contact is media@savethechildren.org.uk \/ +44(0)7831 650409","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Save the Children"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:57:34+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212924","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Strait of Hormuz conflict threatens global food prices as FAO warns time is running out","body":"*FAO outlines urgent measures and policy recommendations to avert severe crisis within six to 12 months*\n\n**Rome** - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not a temporary shipping disruption but the beginning of a systemic agrifood shock that could trigger a severe global food price crisis within six to 12 months. Avoiding such an outcome will require alternative trade routes, restraint on export restrictions, protection of humanitarian flows, and buffers to absorb higher transport costs, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has warned.\n\nThe time has come to \"start seriously thinking about how to increase the absorption capacity of countries, how to increase their resilience to this choke, so that we start to minimize the potential impacts,\" FAO Chief Economist Maximo Torero said in a new podcast published on Wednesday.\n\nThis involves exploring \"intervention by governments, by international financial organizations, by the private sector, and by UN agencies and other research centers to try to help countries to be able to cope better with the current situation,\" Torero said.\n\nAccording to FAO, the window for preventive action is closing quickly. Decisions taken now by farmers and governments on fertilizer use, imports, financing and crop choices will determine whether a severe global food price crisis emerges within six to 12 months.\n\nThe impact is already visible. The [FAO Food Price Index](https:\/\/www.fao.org\/worldfoodsituation\/foodpricesindex\/en\/), which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a basket of globally traded food commodities, rose for a third consecutive month in April, driven by high energy costs and disruptions linked to the [conflict in the Middle East](https:\/\/openknowledge.fao.org\/items\/67a1fe95-98f2-4f23-8be7-99491bfd8343).\n\nThe shock is unfolding in stages: energy, fertilizer, seeds, lower yields, commodity price increases, then food inflation.\n\nMitigating these impacts will require shifting to alternative land and sea routes, including via the eastern Arabian Peninsula, western Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea, said David Laborde, Director of FAO\u2019s Agrifood Economics Division. However, these routes have limited capacity, making it critical to avoid export restrictions by major producers.\n\nThis is especially critical for safeguarding humanitarian food flows, Torero added.\n\nThe situation could worsen with the [onset of El Ni\u00f1o](https:\/\/www.fao.org\/americas\/news\/news-detail\/eventos-climaticos-extremos\/en), which is expected to bring droughts and disrupt rainfall and temperature patterns across several regions.\n\n**Policy recommendations**\n\nFAO has compiled a series of policy recommendations designed to deal with the Strait of Hormuz crisis.\n\n**Short-term recommendations:**\n\n- Rapidly secure alternative land and sea corridors to bypass Hormuz - this won\u2019t resolve the magnitude of the supply shock of inputs but will help to marginally reduce it.\n- Avoid export restrictions, especially on energy, fertilizers and inputs.\n- Exempt food aid from trade curbs.\n- Promote in emergency interventions intercropping (cereals + legumes) to cut nitrogenous fertilizer use and provide major nutritional, environmental, economic, and agronomic benefits.\n- Activate social protection programmes, drawing on lessons from Latin America.\n- Avoid blanket subsidies, which create significant fiscal pressures and tend to be regressive; instead, prioritize targeted support for the most vulnerable through digital registries that can efficiently direct assistance to vulnerable rural households and smallholders, particularly in Africa.\n\n**Medium-term recommendations:**\n\n- Avoid boosting biofuel demand during shortages to limit food\u2013fuel competition.\n- Ensure energy policy responses do not exacerbate food crises.\n- Expand affordable credit for farmers and agribusinesses through second-tier institutions to provide credit lines to reach SMEs, MSMEs, and value-chain actors. These lines should be of low interest emergency credit, with repayment schedules aligned to harvest periods and with at least six to nine months of grace periods.\n- Combine agricultural loans with guaranteed offtake agreements from aggregators, processors, or public buyers.\n- Use digital farmer registries and mobile money systems, as implemented in Mozambique and Peru, for rapid disbursement.\n- Integrate informal farmers into different forms of horizontal coordination (farmer associations, farmer groups, cooperatives, etc.) to improve access to finance and support and take the crises as an opportunity to formalize farmers through digital registries.\n- Provide facilities for balance-of-payments, support of rapid disbursement and expand financing for food and fertilizer imports. The [Food Import Financing Facility](https:\/\/openknowledge.fao.org\/server\/api\/core\/bitstreams\/a9963e35-361b-40b1-aabd-5e961d459b46\/content) is design for this and the implementation in 2022 of the food shock driven window should be reactivated.\n- Use fast-track financing and increase grants for debt-distressed countries through existing mechanisms of MDBs and IFIs.\n\n**Long-term recommendations:**\n\n- Diversify ports, corridors, storage, and logistics systems globally to reduce chokepoint risks in the future.\n- Build regional reserves and warehousing capacity to strengthen future shock absorption.\n- Improve the resilience of domestic and cross-border transport systems.\n- Use concessional financing to accelerate diversification of the energy mix and expand irrigation by replacing diesel with electric and solar-powered systems, particularly for irrigation.\n- Expand the use of electrified machinery, drones, and precision agriculture technologies.\n- Improve efficiency through soil mapping and precision application to reduce fertilizer waste and increase nutrient-use efficiency.\n- Develop innovation funds to support green ammonia, biostimulants, crop genetics, and nutrient-efficiency technologies. While this will take three to five years, it will significantly strengthen long-term resilience.\n- Coordinate with fertilizer companies to develop shared soil and fertilizer mapping systems based on agreed common standards.\n- Support crop switching, intercropping, and fertilizer efficiency improvements rather than pursuing full system overhauls.\n- Strengthen macroeconomic resilience to food inflation and import shocks.\n- Expand the use of early warning systems, insurance, and monitoring mechanisms to act before crises escalate. This is even more urgent given the high probability of a strong El Ni\u00f1o event.\n\nThe podcast can be accessed [here](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tUYsXroGIns).\n\n## Contact\n\n**Nicholas Rigillo**FAO News and Media (Rome)Nicholas.Rigillo@fao.org\n\n**FAO News and Media**(+39) 06 570 53625FAO-Newsroom@fao.org","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:53:40+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212921","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Strengthening the disaster resilience of SMEs in Sendai","body":"This landscape study assesses the current state of disaster preparedness among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Sendai City. A total of 170 SMEs and organizations located in Sendai City participated in the survey. The characteristic disaster risks in Sendai City include trench-type earthquakes, fault-type earthquakes and the accompanying tsunamis they generate.\n\nBased on the experiences and lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake, Sendai City has advanced the construction of a resilient and flexible city. However, the study revealed that while businesses have taken measures to improve their resilience, many have not sufficiently advanced their preparedness due to \u201clack of knowledge, personnel and time. Key recommendations that emerge from the study include:\n\n- Raise knowledge and awareness and share information\n- Promote BCP formulation and review\n- Strengthen practical training and recovery systems\n- Improve resilience of supply chain infrastructure\n- Support vulnerable persons\n- Activate and use external support and networks\n- Promote IT and digital utilization\n- Share lessons learned and best practices","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:48:37+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212920","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Flagship Initiative Final Report (March 2026)","body":"In November 2022, Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths proposed an \u2018initiative to pilot a people-centred, agile, locally-driven response in a number of countries\u2019 to the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Principals. The Flagship Initiative launched in early 2023 as a humanitarian change process in four countries: Niger, South Sudan, the Philippines, and Colombia. Somalia joined the process in late 2024.\n\nThe three-year undertaking was essentially a policy initiative to encourage experimentation, innovation, and learning. OCHA country offices were asked how to reorient the architecture and machinery of UN-led humanitarianism toward a people-centred approach.\n\nThree pillars of activity emerged: community engagement, area-based coordination, and localised financing. All four countries built a considerable, if uneven, body of practice. This final evaluation synthesises that activity and the learning that emerges from it.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"ALNAP"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:42:29+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212910","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Impacts of the Ongoing Energy Crisis and the Forecasted El Ni\u00f1o to the Philippines","body":"This brief analyses the interconnected increases in fuel and food prices in the Philippines driven by the Middle East crisis and its ripple effects.\n\nThe anticipated development of an El Ni\u00f1o event in 2026 is expected to further compound these disruptions. Using key national indicators (e.g., inflation, fuel prices, and commodity prices), the document examines the socio-economic impacts of these overlapping crises.","country":[{"id":188,"name":"Philippines","shortname":"Philippines","iso3":"phl","location":{"lat":11.74,"lon":122.88},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:33:06+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212906","score":1,"fields":{"title":"RD Congo : Situation humanitaire dans la province du Nord-Kivu \u2013 rapport de situation #5, 19 mai 2026","body":"Ce rapport est produit par OCHA RDC en collaboration avec les partenaires humanitaires. Il couvre la p\u00e9riode du 1er au 30 avril 2026.\n\n**FAITS SAILLANTS**  \n \u2022 La d\u00e9gradation de la situation s\u00e9curitaire dans la zone de sant\u00e9 de Masisi a entra\u00een\u00e9 le d\u00e9placement de plus de 170 000 personnes \u00e0 la mi-avril, aggravant la pression sur les services de base et les besoins humanitaires dans les zones d\u2019accueil ;  \n \u2022 Les contraintes d\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire continuent de limiter les mouvements des populations et la r\u00e9ponse humanitaire dans plusieurs territoires, notamment en raison de l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 persistante, de la d\u00e9gradation des axes routiers ;  \n \u2022 Plus de 2 000 m\u00e9nages ont \u00e9t\u00e9 affect\u00e9s par les fortes pluies enregistr\u00e9es dans la chefferie des Watalinga, dans le territoire de Beni, aggravant les risques sanitaires, les pertes agricoles et la vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 des communaut\u00e9s.\n\n**CHIFFRES CL\u00c9S**  \n 1,67M personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes au 30 avril 2026 (Source : CMP Nord-Kivu, 19 mai 2026)\n\n2,20M personnes retourn\u00e9es au 30 avril 2026 (Source : CMP Nord-Kivu, 19 mai 2026)\n\n2 500 latrines construites dans le territoire de Masisi (Source : Cluster EHA, le 30 avril 2026)\n\n**APER\u00c7U DE LA SITUATION**  \n**Territoire de Rutshuru**\n\nAu cours du mois d\u2019avril, la situation s\u00e9curitaire est rest\u00e9e volatile dans la chefferie de Bwito, marqu\u00e9e par la poursuite des affrontements entre groupes arm\u00e9s. Les violences ont aggrav\u00e9 les risques de protection et limit\u00e9 l\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire sur plusieurs axes, notamment Mweso\u2013Katsiru\u2013Nyanzale et Goma\u2013Kanyabayonga. Les affrontements ont entra\u00een\u00e9 le d\u00e9placement d\u2019au moins 7 300 personnes vers l\u2019axe Birundule\u2013Lusogha et 5 500 autres accueillies \u00e0 Kibirizi-centre.\n\nSelon des \u00e9valuations multisectorielles, plus de 105 400 d\u00e9plac\u00e9s sont pr\u00e9sents dans plusieurs localit\u00e9s de la zone de sant\u00e9 (ZS) de Kibirizi, tandis que des milliers de d\u00e9plac\u00e9s et retourn\u00e9s dans les ZS de Vitshumbi, Kibirizi-centre et Kanyabayonga pr\u00e9sentent d\u2019importants besoins humanitaires.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:12:36+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212900","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Jordan: Vulnerability Assessment Framework: Socio-economic Survey on Refugees (May 2026)","body":"Executive Summary\n\nThe Socio-Economic Survey on Refugees in Jordan (referred to as the VAF survey1 ) is an initiative led by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, in collaboration with the World Bank and World Food Programme. Conducted every two years, the survey enables tracking of changes in refugees\u2019 living situation over time. The last data collection was undertaken in 2023, and referred to as the 2024 VAF. This is the seventh iteration of the VAF survey for refugees living in host communities, and the third iteration for refugees living in camps. This iteration combines the assessment of refugees residing in both host communities and refugee camps into one report, allowing for a comprehensive country-wide comparison of and across all refugees registered with UNHCR in Jordan (\u2018registered refugees\u2019). For the 2026 VAF survey, 3,920 refugee households residing in host communities and 985 refugee households residing in Azraq and Zaatari refugee camps were randomly sampled to provide a comprehensive, representative and multisectoral overview of refugees\u2019 living conditions and the protection of their rights within Jordan.","country":[{"id":129,"name":"Jordan","shortname":"Jordan","iso3":"jor","location":{"lat":31.01,"lon":36.44},"primary":true},{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:03:10+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212897","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Sao Tome and Principe Country Brief, May 2026","body":"KEY HIGHLIGHTS\n\n\u2022 National School Feeding Manual launched to mark the African Day of School Feeding.\n\n\u2022 In March, the installation of solar panels and kitchen equipment including electric pressure cookers and refrigerators started across schools in Sao Tome.\n\n\u2022 WFP, as the Accredited Entity for the Green Climate Fund Project Preparation Facility, is leading studies and consultations to develop the full proposal.","country":[{"id":206,"name":"Sao Tome and Principe","shortname":"Sao Tome and Principe","iso3":"stp","location":{"lat":0.46,"lon":6.74},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:42:29+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212889","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UN Special Representative Patten urges for immediate action as sexual violence surges amid gang violence in Haiti","body":"Press Release: For Immediate Release\n\nNew York, 04 June 2025: The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict (SRSG-SVC), Ms. Pramila Patten, expresses grave concerns over the escalating levels of sexual violence being inflicted upon women and girls amid the worsening gang violence in Haiti.\n\nThe situation has reached a breaking point. Since the beginning of the year, reports of sexual violence - particularly rape and gang rape - have surged at an alarming rate. \u201cThese heinous crimes are overwhelmingly concentrated in areas under gang control, where State presence is virtually nonexistent. In many instances, sexual violence is being used deliberately and systematically to assert dominance and punish communities,\u201d stated Special Representative Patten. Women and girls are increasingly subjected to sexual violence alongside other grave crimes, including kidnapping and killings during gang attacks. Survivors are often assaulted in their own homes or public spaces. Alarmingly, the past eight months have seen a dramatic rise in documented cases of sexual slavery, further exemplifying the brutal oppression of women and girls.\n\n\u201cI echo the Secretary-General and Security Council\u2019s condemnation of the widespread atrocities perpetrated by armed gangs, including conflict-related sexual violence and trafficking for the purposes of sexual exploitation. Concrete and immediate measures are essential to enhance the protection of Haitians, prioritizing those most at risk,\u201d urged Special Representative Patten.\n\nThe full deployment of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission to reinforce Haitian national security forces, alongside the enforcement of UN Security Council sanctions aimed at crippling gang operations - particularly the illicit arms flow fueling these crimes - has never been more urgent. Widespread insecurity and the broader humanitarian crisis are unraveling the social fabric, displacing thousands and pushing many into overcrowded and unsafe shelters. Access to essential services, including medical and psychological support for survivors, remains severely limited. The closure of critical health facilities due to insecurity has further strained an already fragile system while impunity for these crimes emboldens perpetrators.\n\nUrgent and decisive action is required. The recent adoption of a decree establishing two Specialized Judicial Units, supported by the United Nations - including one focused on mass crimes such as sexual violence - and the reopening of the Court of First Instance of Port-au-Prince, marks critical progress toward accountability and restoring the rule of law.\n\n\u201cI urge the Government of Haiti to accelerate the operationalization of these Units and call upon the international community to support these national efforts. Securing adequate funding is essential to allow service providers in meeting the health, psychological, and reintegration needs of survivors. Ending impunity is a fundamental step in breaking the cycle of violence and restoring dignity and safety to Haiti\u2019s women and girls,\u201d concluded SRSG Patten.\n\nFor media inquiries, please contact:\n\nMs. G\u00e9raldine Boezio, Office of the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict\n\nTel: +1 917 367 3306 Email: geraldine.boezio@un.org\n\nFollow us on social media: @endrapeinwar","country":[{"id":113,"name":"Haiti","shortname":"Haiti","iso3":"hti","location":{"lat":19.18,"lon":-72.43},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Integrated Office in Haiti"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:33:10+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212887","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Attacks on health care in the Gaza Strip (Since 1 January 2026 - 30 April 2026)","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:33:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212882","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Addressing Southern Africa climate shocks: Advocating for Child-Centred Climate Resilience and Fiscal Prioritization","body":"**Joint Statement by East and Southern Africa Joining Forces Alliance**\n\n**The Context: A Region Under Siege**\n\nSouthern Africa is currently grappling with a \"polycrisis\" where extreme weather events, historically considered generational have become annual occurrences. From the devastating floods in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in early 2026 to the persistent agricultural droughts across the Limpopo Basin, the region is a frontline victim of a 1.3\u00b0C warmer world. Recent data from the University of Johannesburg (2026) indicates that agricultural drought is now the single greatest predictor of severe acute malnutrition in children, with Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVCs) being hit hardest due to the lack of \"parental buffers.\"\n\nDespite this, we are witnessing a disturbing trend of financial (government allocations and donor) de-prioritization. International climate finance often gravitates toward high-profile mitigation projects in high-income nations, leaving the urgent, life-saving adaptation needs of Southern Africa\u2019s children under-funded and overlooked**.**\n\n**Current Climate Shocks**\n\nThe region has shifted from the severe El Ni\u00f1o-induced drought of 2023-2024 to intense La Ni\u00f1a-driven floods and cyclones in 2025-2026, affecting nearly 1.9 million people by mid-February 2026. Heavy rainfall has caused flash floods, displacing communities, destroying homes, and damaging critical infrastructure such as roads, bridges, schools, and health facilities. Concurrently, persistent droughts have exacerbated food insecurity, with crop losses reaching 40-80% in key producers like Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi, where 70% of populations rely on rain-fed agriculture. These events compound vulnerabilities, heightening risks of disease outbreaks due to compromised water and sanitation systems and crowding in temporary shelters.\n\n**Impact Documentation: Floods, Droughts, and Disaster Risk Reduction Gaps**\n\nThere is an urgent need to move beyond statistics to document the humanized impact of these shocks on children\u2019s rights as enshrined in UNCRC General Comment No. 26.\n\n- Floods: Beyond infrastructure loss, the 2025\/2026 floods have triggered cascading risks, including the collapse of cold-chain infrastructure for essential vaccines and HIV\/TB treatments, and the destruction of over 70,000 homes in Mozambique alone (PreventionWeb, 2026).\n- Droughts: The \"silent killer\" of the region, drought, has decimated subsistence farming, leading to a surge in child labour and school dropouts as families struggle to survive.\n- Weak DRR Systems: Current Disaster Risk Reduction frameworks are often reactive rather than anticipatory. While early warning systems exist, the \"last mile\" of communication reaching a grandmother in a rural village, remains broken due to under-investment in community-level infrastructure**.**\n\n**Recognition of Donor Deprioritization**\n\nJoining Forces East and Southern Africa expresses grave concern over the widening gap between climate risk and climate investment. While global climate finance reached approximately $43.7 billion recently, Sub-Saharan Africa requires upwards of $190 billion annually to manage the transition (Climate Finance Lab, 2026). Donors favor high-profile mitigation in middle-income nations, thus excluding Southern Africa's life-saving adaptation for children. For Instance, South Africa only requires US$15.64 billion over the next decade for water security, flood defences, and resilient agriculture, but short-term economic priorities dominate. Worse, \"aid\" arrives as market-rate debt, trapping the southern African region in a disaster-debt cycle: repayments for past shocks starve future DRR investments. SADC's humanitarian appeals go unmet as focus shifts elsewhere.\n\n- The Shift to Debt: Too much climate \"aid\" is currently delivered as market-rate debt rather than concessional grants. This forces nations like South Africa and Zambia into a \"disaster-debt cycle,\" where paying for past climate shocks prevents investing in future Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).\n- The Mitigation Bias: Strategic focus has shifted toward energy transitions (mitigation) at the expense of protecting children from immediate physical risks like flooding, displacement, and disease (adaptation).\n\nThis deprioritization leaves Southern African Development Community (SADC) nations underfunded, with urgent calls for scaled humanitarian assistance unmet as partners focus elsewhere. The result is a vicious cycle: weakened resilience amplifies shock impacts, further straining limited domestic resources.\n\n**Weak DRR Systems and Cascading Failures**\n\nDRR frameworks remain reactive, underfunded, and fragmented across provinces and municipalities. Rural villages and informal settlements lack the \"last mile\" in early warnings \u2013 no community infrastructure reaches grandmothers amid floods or fires. SADC notes poor information management in high-risk zones, worsened by unplanned urbanization. Most nations in the region like Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, face water crises and infrastructure collapse without integrated planning. Droughts force child labour and school dropouts; floods isolate communities, obliterating livelihoods and fuelling epidemics.\n\n**Impacts on Children\u2019s Rights and vulnerable persons**\n\nThese shocks violate children\u2019s rights under UN General Comment No. 26 (GC26), the ACERWC Resolution 18 of 2022, amplifying the triple planetary crisis of climate, biodiversity, and pollution. Poor, women-headed households, OVCs, and marginalized groups suffer most: malnutrition surges, education collapses, and displacement breeds exploitation. Without \"parental buffers,\" OVCs face heightened labour, dropouts, and health risks. Trends deepen inequality, erode SDGs, and betray \"Generation Regeneration.\"\n\nClimate shocks disproportionately burden the poor, women, children, and marginalized communities in marginal areas with limited coping mechanisms. Floods and droughts disrupt food systems, leading to health crises, biodiversity loss, and declining productivity. In Mozambique and Madagascar, consecutive cyclones have obliterated agricultural livelihoods, isolated communities and fuelling epidemics. Without intervention, these trends will deepen inequality, erode economic stability, and undermine progress toward Sustainable Development Goals.\n\n**Urgent call for immediate action to Duty Bearers**\n\nPursuant to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and specifically GC26 and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child, we demand:\n\n- **Operationalize Child-Sensitive Finance**: Tag national budgets for climate-responsive child grants and social protection.\n- **Integrate explicitly child focused adaptations** within the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) indicator framework and the broader United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adaptation architecture.\n- **Recognition of children\u2019s rights, needs, and differentiated climate risks in the development of GGA metrics and methodologies** and ensuring that adaptation progress is measured through outcomes that strengthen children\u2019s resilience across key sectors such as health, education, water, and protection.\n- **Swap Debt-for-Resilience**: Redirect debt servicing to local DRR, resilient schools, and km-scale climate modelling (Engelbrecht et al., 2025).\n- **Localize Early Warnings**: Invest beyond satellites in community infrastructure for rural\/urban informal settlements.\n- **Prioritize Concessional Grants**: Reverse debt-based funding; treat adaptation as global justice, not commerce \u2013 mobilize USD 15 billion regionally via multi-year pledges.\n- **Enhance Resilience**: Upgrade water\/sanitation, climate-smart agriculture (e.g., drought-resistant sorghum, seed banks), and health services.\n- **Foster Partnerships**: Convene SADC-donor roundtables for equitable finance and coordinated action.\n- **Empowering Rights Holders: Children as Catalysts**\n\nIn line with safeguarding and best-interest principles, children hold agency in resilience:\n\n- **Form Climate Rights Circles**: Monitor degradation, report to councils.\n- **Harness Indigenous Knowledge**: Blend traditional techniques with anticipatory actions.\n- **Demand Accountability**: Invoke GC26 to hold leaders to account for the triple crisis.\n\n**A Crossroads for Global Justice**\n\nThe climate shocks of Southern Africa are not \"natural\" disasters; they are the result of systemic failures in global climate justice. Joining Forces Africa remains committed to elevating the voices of the most vulnerable, ensuring that the \"Generation Regeneration\" is not left behind by the very donors who pledged to protect them.\n\n*\u201cInvestment in disaster risk reduction is not just a return on investment; it is the foundation for a safe and prosperous future for every child.\u201d* \u2014 Global Assessment Report (GAR) 2025","country":[{"id":164,"name":"Mozambique","shortname":"Mozambique","iso3":"moz","location":{"lat":-18.09,"lon":34.75},"primary":true},{"id":144,"name":"Madagascar","shortname":"Madagascar","iso3":"mdg","location":{"lat":-19.37,"lon":46.71}},{"id":146,"name":"Malawi","shortname":"Malawi","iso3":"mwi","location":{"lat":-13.22,"lon":33.74}},{"id":217,"name":"South Africa","shortname":"South Africa","iso3":"zaf","location":{"lat":-28.38,"lon":23.91}},{"id":256,"name":"Zambia","shortname":"Zambia","iso3":"zmb","location":{"lat":-14,"lon":27.43}},{"id":257,"name":"Zimbabwe","shortname":"Zimbabwe","iso3":"zwe","location":{"lat":-19.19,"lon":29.94}}],"source":[{"name":"ChildFund Alliance"},{"name":"Plan International"},{"name":"Save the Children"},{"name":"SOS Children's Villages International"},{"name":"Terre des hommes"},{"name":"World Vision"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:12:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212880","score":1,"fields":{"title":"The 2016 Peace Agreement has made remarkable progress, although structural problems in the country remain the main challenge to achieving sustainable peace","body":"Bogot\u00e1, 7 April 2025. In his most recent report on the UN Verification Mission in Colombia to the Security Council, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres affirms that the crisis in Catatumbo has underscored the persistence of structural challenges and factors underpinning violence in conflict-affected regions, which the Final Agreement seeks to address, such as the limited presence of the State and illegal economies, particularly illicit crops. This situation, he notes, has prompted renewed calls to accelerate the implementation of the Agreement. In view of the above, the report includes a general assessment on progress in the implementation of the Peace Agreement along with the usual quarterly update.\n\nThe report points out that the Agreement was conceived as a comprehensive set of interconnected mechanisms and programmes, aimed at addressing the causes and impact of decades of armed conflict. However, it states, in the last eight years, progress in its implementation has varied across its different sections. Recognizing the long-term nature of the Agreement, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres stresses the need to maintain the course of its implementation and highlights the opportunity for this Administration to accelerate the progress achieved so far, leaving solid foundations on which to build in the future.\n\nWhile there is notable progress in certain areas, some structural problems remain unaddressed, stated the Secretary-General, and added that they \u201cthreaten to undermine the prospects of sustainable peace for all Colombians. State institutions need to urgently and effectively deliver on the promises of the Final Agreement, the needs of rural communities and the expectations of Colombian society at large.\u201d\n\nAmong the most remarkable achievements, he points out the transition to civilian life of the former FARC-EP. Nearly 9,000 weapons were handed over to the United Nations for their destruction, a very high weapons-to-combatant disarmament ratio by global standards. Eight years after the signing, the vast majority of those who laid down arms remain committed to their reintegration process. About 12,000 former combatants (27 per cent women) are formally linked to and benefit from the support of the Agency for Reintegration and Normalization (ARN), out of about 14,000 people originally accredited.\n\nAccording to the report, a key challenge to the sustainable reintegration of former combatants has been ensuring access to land, which successive governments have sought to address. To date, land has been secured for 14 of the 24 territorial areas for training and reintegration (TATRs) \u2013 in which some 1,800 former combatants reside \u2013 and for 47 productive cooperatives, with almost 15,000 hectares purchased, according to ARN. Access to housing is also a major challenge for most former combatants.\n\nRegarding political reintegration, the report highlights the transition of the FARC-EP to a political party, confirming the decision of the former guerrilla group to join the democratic system. The Comunes party has actively participated in Congress for two legislative terms via the ten seats apportioned to it under the Final Agreement. Former combatants have also engaged in local politics and community life, with some becoming elected officials and others taking on active roles as social leaders.\n\nThe expansion of political participation has made positive progress. With the enactment of the Opposition Statute, the rights and guarantees for political opposition at the national and local levels were strengthened.\n\nDespite this progress, provisions of the Agreement with major transformative potential are yet to be fully implemented. In this regard and welcoming the current administration's strong focus on rural reform, the Secretary-General called on the Government to complement the important steps taken in the adjudication and formalization of land with efforts aimed at the productive use of land by beneficiaries. \u201cAppropriate coordination with the implementation of other innovative instruments, namely the development programmes with a territorial focus and the national plans for rural reform, is also needed. Progress in rural reform is essential to bolster institutional presence and facilitate access to goods, services and development opportunities for communities. Effective implementation requires concrete resources, projects, and active citizen participation,\u201d he added.\n\nThe implementation of the chapter on Comprehensive Rural Reform continues to fall short of the goals of the Agreement. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, as of February in 2025, six percent of the 3-million-hectare goal has been adjudicated as per the provisions of the Peace Agreement. The formalization of land tenure has reached 45.9 per cent of the target 7 million hectares. The current administration has contributed to 94 per cent of the hectares adjudicated so far since the signing of the Peace Agreement and 43.6 per cent of those formalized.\n\nThe report states that efforts to reduce the dependence of local communities on illicit crops have focused on substitution programmes, including the National Comprehensive Programme for Substitution of Illicit Crops, the largest one created by the Agreement, with some 99,000 participating households. However, the success of this approach has been limited, including due to lack of follow-through by the State with development assistance, promised to peasants who voluntarily eradicated coca, and the lack of more comprehensive measures.\n\nThe Peace Agreement concluded the largest insurgency spanning decades. Conflict indicators remain lower than during the height of that conflict. However, they have been steadily rising in recent years. In the report, the Secretary-General emphasizes the need to optimize complementarity between security and defense policies focused on prevention and protection of communities, ongoing peace initiatives and strategies against illegal economies.\n\n\u201cThe current security situation in various regions of the country is concerning and requires urgent attention,\u201d said Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. \u201cImplementation of the security guarantees provisions contained in the Final Agreement is of utmost importance, as they provide a clear and comprehensive framework within which to tackle the drivers and effects of violence that have particularly impacted rural communities, social leaders, former combatants, women, children, indigenous and Afro-Colombians.\u201d\n\nFormer combatants have been particularly affected by ongoing violence. Since the signing of the Peace Agreement, 460 former combatants have been killed, including 11 women, 59 indigenous individuals and 57 Afro-Colombians. For the period 27 December 2024 to 26 March 2025, 19 former combatants were killed, representing a significant increase compared to the previous period (10).\n\nThe situation of social leaders continues to be of high concern. Between 27 December 2024 and 3 March 2025, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights recorded 40 allegations of homicides against human rights defenders; 9 verified, 27 under verification, and 4 inconclusive.\n\nRegarding transitional justice, the Secretary-General emphasized its central role in the success of the peace process in Colombia, as well as the need for rapid progress toward the issuance of restorative sentences. In this regard, he welcomed the decisions taken by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (SJP) to optimize the investigations of ongoing cases. \u201cThe victims and Colombian society have waited patiently for this next stage of the process. I call upon those appearing before the SJP to maintain their commitment to truth, justice and peace and ask that relevant Government entities spare no effort to ensure they prepare the conditions enabling the implementation of the sentences, including security and adequate funding,\u201d he said. Likewise, he stressed the importance of providing legal certainty to those involved.\n\nThe report notes that, despite the signing in November 2023 of the pact to accelerate the implementation of the Ethnic Chapter of the Agreement, which seeks to address the historical inequalities of Indigenous and Afro-Colombian peoples, as well as mitigate the disproportionate impact of the conflict on these communities, it lags significantly, particularly on issues such as land restitution and demining.\n\nSimilarly, while there has been progress in establishing institutional mechanisms to ensure women's participation in peacebuilding, there are still significant challenges to achieving tangible results. For example, women former combatants as well as rural women in general continue to face barriers in accessing land and employment.\n\nWith regards the dialogue initiatives launched to date, it is noted that they have not, in general, produced the clear and sustainable results expected. \u201cI trust that the Government will make the necessary adjustments to prioritize those political dialogue processes with potential to provide tangible benefits for affected communities. The extent to which they enable increased State presence, in line with the Final Agreement and current security policies, should also be taken into consideration,\u201d he added.\n\nRecalling that peacebuilding is a non-linear and complex process, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres stressed that \u201cin challenging times, it is necessary to stay committed, revise priorities, make strategic decisions, and implement sound policies.\u201d\n\nThe United Nations will continue to accompany and support Colombia in its efforts to consolidate peace, with the firm belief that it remains not only possible but also necessary.\n\nThe report will be presented in New York 22 April by Mr. Carlos Ruiz Massieu, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia.\n\n\\*\\*\\*\n\n[**Download here the Report of the Secretary-General on the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. S\/2025\/188**](https:\/\/admin.unmissions.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-04\/sp_n2506612%20%281%29_0.pdf)\n\n[**Download here the Infographic Report of the Secretary-General on the UN Verification Mission in Colombia. S\/2025\/188**](https:\/\/admin.unmissions.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-04\/infografia_espanol_s2025188%20%281%29_0.pdf)","country":[{"id":64,"name":"Colombia","shortname":"Colombia","iso3":"col","location":{"lat":3.9,"lon":-73.07},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Verification Mission in Colombia"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212879","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Standing with women\u2019s rights organisations will take more than warm words","body":"CARE International UK responds to the launch of a new International Coalition to End Violence against Women and Girls convened by the UK and made up of eight governments.\n\nThe announcement by Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper at the Global Partnerships Conference in London intends to \u2018mirror\u2019 the UK\u2019s domestic commitment to halve violence against women and girls in a decade.\n\nDorothy Sang, Head of Advocacy at Care International UK said:\n\n> \u201cAs women around the world face repressive rollbacks on their rights, the Foreign Secretary\u2019s leadership on Violence Against Women and Girls has never been more important. With the right investment and partnerships, this new coalition could transform the lives of millions of women and girls. \u201cFrom the climate crisis to warzones, women\u2019s rights organisations are defending rights and saving lives on the frontlines of global challenges while operating under existential threats to their survival from chronic underinvestment, deepening aid cuts, and crackdowns by misogynistic leaders. Warm words won\u2019t protect or rebuild capacity needed to deliver the exact changes that world leaders are finally promising. \u201cBeyond claiming a feminist foreign policy approach, it remains unclear how far the UK is prepared to boldly defend women\u2019s rights organisations and movements \u2013 especially when it is politically difficult to do so.\n> \n> \u201cThe UK and its allies must now commit to meaningful investment and partnerships with Women\u2019s Rights Organisations that make a difference to women and girls\u2019 lives. Otherwise, we risk looking back on this moment as another empty promise.\u201d","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"CARE"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T12:03:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212873","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026, Response Overview (1 January - 31 March 2026)","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:44:18+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212872","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan 2026, Response Overview (1 January - 28 February 2026)","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:43:15+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212870","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: Conflict Displacement and Returnee Influx Contingency Plan 2026 (May 2026)","body":"## Background and Rationale\n\nAfghanistan remains highly vulnerable to regional geopolitical shocks due to its reliance on cross\u2011border trade corridors, its significant trade deficit, and the presence of large Afghan populations in neighbouring countries. The prolonged closure of key border points with Pakistan and growing uncertainty around commodity movements through Iran are already driving up logistics costs, extending lead times, and reducing the availability and affordability of essential goods in local markets. At the same time, sustained cross-border military exchanges between the de facto authorities (DfA) and Pakistani forces since 26 February\u2014including airstrikes, artillery fire, and ground clashes along several segments of the Durand Line\u2014have triggered internal displacement in several border districts. The combined impact of conflict-related displacement, potential large-scale returns of Afghans from Iran and\/or Pakistan due to instability or pushbacks, and ongoing logistical constraints affecting supply pipelines is placing additional stress on Afghanistan\u2019s economy and local markets. Altogether, these factors may sharply increase humanitarian needs at a time when partners\u2019 operational capacity is already under mounting pressure.\n\nThis contingency plan provides a single, consolidated planning framework for two potentially compounding escalation scenarios: a mass returnee influx from Iran as the conflict involving the United States and Israel re-intensifies and renewed or heightened Afghanistan\u2013Pakistan hostilities that could trigger additional internal displacement or a potential returnee influx from Pakistan should pushbacks resume. These risks may materialise simultaneously or sequentially, compounding humanitarian needs while also constraining humanitarian access and operating space, disrupting supply chains and markets. This combined contingency plan therefore outlines both individual and combined scenario risks, identifies common operational constraints, and supports realistic operational planning and costing.","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:37:40+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212867","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Climate Finance and the Governance Challenge","body":"By Irfan Maqbool\n\nClimate finance is often seen as a technical puzzle involving better proposals, stronger justifications, more readiness support, and more capacity building.  \nThe assumption is straightforward: strengthen technical preparedness, and finance will follow.  \nHowever, it is not that straightforward.\n\nMany of the most climate-vulnerable countries still find it difficult to turn climate priorities into actual investments on the ground. This is happening despite the Green Climate Fund having now approved more than USD 20 billion globally, while adaptation finance needs in developing countries are estimated at more than USD 300 billion annually. The money has grown, so has the urgency. However, access frequently becomes elusive amid a complex web of institutional procedures, conflicting priorities, and coordination gaps, situated between vulnerability and investment.  \nThe problem, therefore, may not be readiness alone.\n\nIt is also a matter of political economy. Which institutions influence investment priorities? How are climate finance decisions coordinated within government systems, and which institutions are capable of absorbing and managing large-scale funding? Behind every approved climate project lies a much broader process of coordination and engagement across government systems. Climate finance may be global in ambition, but access depends on how national systems function in practice.\n\nOver the past decade, climate finance systems have invested quite considerably in readiness. National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), country programs, technical assessments, and readiness grants became central for helping countries engage with climate finance institutions. Much of this support was both necessary and overdue. In many countries, it helped establish institutional foundations that had previously not existed.\n\nNevertheless, climate finance systems have advanced technically at a pace that outpaces their institutional development. Many countries today have climate strategies, investment priorities, and even a growing pipeline of concept notes, but still struggle to convert them into approved investments.  \nThe bottleneck typically occurs after readiness and before approval, in institutional areas where coordination among ministries is inconsistent, project preparation systems are overburdened, and fiduciary arrangements are still evolving. And, this is where momentum often slows. While readiness can facilitate access to climate finance, actual access ultimately hinges on whether institutions are able to deal with the complex processes of coordination, review, and decision-making.\n\nThis shift is starting to show more clearly across the wider landscape of climate finance. The GCF now emphasizes greater country ownership, direct access, programming capacity, and building investment pipelines.\n\nThese themes are similarly reflected in discussions among MDBs, focusing on country platforms, institutional coordination, and readiness for implementation. Across the region, nationally designated authorities (NDAs) are subtly highlighting a common concern from a slightly different angle: getting approval is only the first step. The real journey often starts afterward, as it involves working together across institutions, maintaining strong political support, and turning approved funding into meaningful action that truly makes a difference.  \nThese constraints show up differently across the region, but the core institutional challenges are remarkably similar. In South Asia, for instance, mitigation and adaptation plans often encounter coordination gaps and uneven implementation capacity between national and local institutions.\n\nAcross ASEAN member states, climate finance discussions are becoming more closely tied to resilient infrastructure, urban development, and broader economic planning priorities. In the Pacific, small island states continue to face high costs of accessing climate finance relative to their institutional capacity. Despite these differences, many countries face the same underlying challenge: a widening gap between technical readiness and actual access to funding. The institutional bottlenecks may vary in form, but they are regional in character.\n\nThis is where the next phase of climate finance thinking may need to evolve. Too often, countries are expected to work through complex approval systems, fiduciary requirements, safeguard standards, and project preparation processes largely on their own or with external support.\n\nValuable time and institutional energy are lost long before projects reach implementation. Rather than treating climate finance access as a purely countryby- country exercise, there may now be a stronger case for developing regional institutional support platforms to help countries move more efficiently from readiness to investment.\n\nSuch platforms could provide technical and fiduciary expertise, strengthen project preparation systems, support the development of regional and national investment pipelines, and create more continuous institutional support between concept development and approval. In many ways, the region already collaborates on transboundary disaster risks, early warning systems, and humanitarian coordination.  \nClimate finance systems may now require a similar level of practical regional cooperation.\n\nBarriers to accessing finance are not unique to individual countries. They are recurring regional challenges. Recognizing this could help shift the conversation from isolated project development to practical regional support mechanisms that reduce transaction burdens, strengthen institutional capacity, and improve the quality of climate investment pipelines. Climate finance may ultimately be negotiated nationally, but making it genuinely accessible will depend just as much on how effectively countries are supported through the institutional gap between readiness and approval.  \n  \nIrfan Maqbool is Director at the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), based in Bangkok.  \nHe can be reached at: irfan@adpc.net","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Asian Disaster Preparedness Center"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:13:16+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212866","score":1,"fields":{"title":"RD Congo : Situation humanitaire dans la province du Sud-Kivu \u2013 rapport de situation #5, 19 mai 2026","body":"Ce rapport est produit par OCHA RDC en collaboration avec les partenaires humanitaires. Il couvre la p\u00e9riode du 1er au 30 avril 2026.\n\n**FAITS SAILLANTS**\n\n\u2022 Les affrontements arm\u00e9s ont fortement restreint l\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire dans les Moyens et Hauts Plateaux de Fizi, Uvira et Mwenga, limitant la fourniture d\u2019une assistance vitale aux personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es, retourn\u00e9es et aux communaut\u00e9s h\u00f4tes ;\n\n\u2022 Pr\u00e8s de 20 000 m\u00e9nages ont b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 d\u2019une assistance en esp\u00e8ces \u00e0 usages multiples dans le territoire d\u2019Uvira, avec le financement du Fonds humanitaire en RDC ;\n\n\u2022 Pr\u00e8s de 1500 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s congolais ont \u00e9t\u00e9 rapatri\u00e9s \u00e0 Uvira depuis le Burundi dans un contexte favorable au retour volontaire.\n\n**CHIFFRES CL\u00c9S**\n\n1,49M Personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes au Sud-Kivu au 30 avril 2026 (Source : CMP Sud-Kivu, 08 mai 2026)  \n 1,64M Personnes retourn\u00e9es au Sud-Kivu au 30 avril 2026 (Source : CMP Sud-Kivu, 08 mai 2026)  \n 123 227 Personnes ont b\u00e9n\u00e9fici\u00e9 d\u2019une assistance alimentaire dans les territoires de Walungu et Fizi (Source : Cluster S\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire, le 30 avril 2026)\n\n**APER\u00c7U DE LA SITUATION**  \n**Territoire de Fizi**  \n Au cours du mois d\u2019avril, les affrontements ont persist\u00e9 dans les Hauts Plateaux du territoire de Fizi, notamment autour de Minembwe, o\u00f9 des attaques arm\u00e9es contre plusieurs villages ont caus\u00e9 des pertes en vies humaines et la destruction d\u2019infrastructures essentielles. Cette ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 continue d\u2019aggraver la vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 des populations d\u00e9plac\u00e9es et retourn\u00e9es, tout en limitant leur acc\u00e8s aux moyens de subsistance et aux services de base.\n\nLes contraintes d\u2019acc\u00e8s, notamment les restrictions de mouvement et le mauvais \u00e9tat des routes, continuent \u00e9galement de limiter l\u2019acheminement de l\u2019assistance humanitaire vers plusieurs zones. Dans ce contexte, plus de 590 000 personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es et retourn\u00e9es voient leurs conditions de vie se d\u00e9t\u00e9riorer davantage, avec des besoins croissants en vivres, abris, sant\u00e9, protection et services en eau, hygi\u00e8ne et assainissement.\n\n**Territoire de Kalehe**  \n Le territoire de Kalehe est rest\u00e9 marqu\u00e9 par une d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration de la situation s\u00e9curitaire dans les Hauts Plateaux de Ziralo, Mubuku, Buzi, Mbinga Nord et Sud, o\u00f9 les affrontements arm\u00e9s r\u00e9currents continuent d\u2019entra\u00eener d\u2019importants d\u00e9placements de populations et d\u2019aggraver les besoins humanitaires. Entre le 8 et le 23 avril, plus de 77 500 personnes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 d\u00e9plac\u00e9es, accentuant la pression sur les communaut\u00e9s d\u2019accueil et les services de base dans les zones de sant\u00e9 de Bunyakiri, Minova, Kalehe et Kalonge.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:09:34+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212865","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Climate change and TB, a topic that continues to heat up","body":"The Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health released a 17-point call to action at the start of the World Health Assembly (WHA) on May 18. The commission discussed many scientifically proven connections between climate change and health, including mental health, non-communicable diseases, and maternal and early childhood nutrition. These topics also have direct connections to tuberculosis.\n\nCase in point, new research commissioned by WHO and published in The Lancet provides a framework underlining and connecting all of these topics\u2014climate change, TB, the WHA agenda items, and more. The researchers concluded that so many of the health impacts from climate change also worsen the TB pandemic, and that it is only a matter of time before climate change becomes a primary barrier to ending tuberculosis as a global health threat\u2014if it hasn\u2019t become one already.\n\nDr. Maria Beumont, vice president for clinical and safety at TB Alliance, is available for interviews on the connections between TB and climate change and the need for more resources so that we can actually end TB in our lifetime.\n\nFor more information:\n\n- \u201c[Climate change is a health crisis \u2013 and fixing it is a health opportunity](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/cc21bb50169a40bca29360e18c66be2d?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Feurope%2Fnews%2Fitem%2F17-05-2026-climate-change-is-a-health-crisis---and-fixing-it-is-a-health-opportunity),\u201d World Health Organization, May 2026.\n- \u201c[Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/5c5bce0657624e0c9ac8ecce5e4bc928?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Flanres%2Farticle%2FPIIS2213-2600%2825%2900329-7%2Ffulltext),\u201d The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, March 2026.\n- \u201c[Environmental-demographic determinants associated with tuberculosis prevalence in seven African countries: an aggregated dataset analysis](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/967ae6cbe8e2438087dc5c0cada371e2?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjournals%2Feclinm%2Farticle%2FPIIS2589-5370%2826%2900020-9%2Ffulltext),\u201d eClinicalMedicine, February 2026.\n- \u201c[Call to action: climate change and health threats to the Pacific Islands](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/d5ebaca51d924ad9a61e89615e7cabb3?rl=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1186%2Fs41182-025-00848-9),\u201d Tropical Medicine and Health, January 2026.\n- \u201c[Tuberculosis and the climate crisis in Latin America: a predicament of poverty, migration and displacement](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/2189f4c1db974a398bfc5582874a9a0d?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fgh.bmj.com%2Fcontent%2F10%2F4%2Fe018674),\u201d BMJ Global Health, April 2025.\n\n**Speedy drug-resistant TB treatment rollout sets new precedent**\n\nSeveral new reports dive into the detail of how TB Alliance engineered a rollout that brought the BPaL regimen to so many drug-resistant TB patients so swiftly. It typically takes 7 to 9 years to achieve widespread access for a new global health product, but TB Alliance cut that time to three years.\n\nShrinking the rollout required training more than 12,000 clinical and laboratory personnel in 48 countries, while enhancing drug-resistance identification and other laboratory infrastructure, pharmacovigilance systems, and data platforms.\n\nTB Alliance\u2019s efforts not only rapidly increased access to the BPaL regimen (which reduced treatment time from 18+ months to 6 months), they strengthened the healthcare systems struggling with one of the world\u2019s hardest to cure infections.\n\nSandeep Juneja, TB Alliance\u2019s senior vice president for market access, is available for interviews on the BPaL rollout and the elements that helped drive its success.\n\nFor more information:\n\n- \u201cThe Impact of LIFT-TB Project on fast-tracking the broad adoption and scale-up of improved drug-resistant TB treatment regimens,\u201d [Report Summary](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/17144dea5000415495335b339c37fd7d?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tballiance.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2026%2F04%2FTBAlliance_LIFT-TB_Brochure_2026.pdf), April 2026.\n- \u201c[Orchestrating faster access to products of non-profit R&D: a case study of a novel regimen for drug-resistant tuberculosis](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/d5ca33f05201444686520168f2a9d9a5?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fgh.bmj.com%2Fcontent%2F11%2F4%2Fe021596),\u201d BMJ Global Health, April 2026.\n- \u201c[HPR89 What Non-Profit Development of Pretomanid Can Teach About Paths to Innovation and Global Access to Treatments for Diseases of Poverty?](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/6e2ad4c0c12947fab93b797659aa08e6?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.valueinhealthjournal.com%2Farticle%2FS1098-3015%2825%2900938-6%2Fabstract),\u201d Value in Health, July 2025.\n\n**Stronger support for TB patients**\n\nNew research closely examines the experiences of TB patients in Hyderabad, India, to determine the factors that interfere with their adherence to treatment regimens. Identified risk factors included socioeconomic status, educational status, marital status, side effects of drugs, awareness about treatment completion, and smoking.\n\nSupport for TB patients has long been an under-appreciated aspect of TB care. Such support would allow more patients to recover their health, with fewer infections becoming drug-resistant (which occurs when treatment is discontinued prematurely). But in the background, the need for new TB cures\u2014ones that take much less time than the six months of the current treatment regimens\u2014remains increasingly obvious.\n\nSandeep Juneja, TB Alliance\u2019s senior vice president for market access, is available for interviews on the importance of patient support and the work supported by Fast Track the Cure, one of the initiatives implemented through the work of how countries roll out the BPaL regimen. We could also connect journalists with experts handling patient support in high-burden settings.\n\nFor more information:\n\n- \u201c[Factors Influencing Non-adherence to Treatment Among New Patients with Tuberculosis in the Field Practice Area of a Tertiary Care Hospital in Hyderabad: A Cross-Sectional Study](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/814caad26b4c4984a76cbf1a69a0eaab?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cureus.com%2Farticles%2F482789-factors-influencing-non-adherence-to-treatment-among-new-patients-with-tuberculosis-in-the-field-practice-area-of-a-tertiary-care-hospital-in-hyderabad-a-cross-sectional-study%3Fscore_article%3Dtrue%23%21%2F),\u201d Cureus, April 2026.\n- \u201c[Health-related quality of life and associated factors among adult tuberculosis patients in Kembata Zone, Southern Ethiopia: a mixed-methods cross-sectional study](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/be3602ef268241da8d849481a99a509d?rl=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Farticle%2F10.1186%2Fs12879-026-12592-4),\u201d BMC Infectious Diseases, January 2026.\n- \u201c[When universal coverage is not enough: a mixed methods exploration of tuberculosis medication adherence in Bangkok](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/eaaccb16d66c4b5f9a2f02c5e677d6d6?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchsquare.com%2Farticle%2Frs-8525948%2Fv1),\u201d Research Square, January 2026.\n\n**New TB technologies are surging forward\u2014they need to reach those in need**\n\nThe BPaL regimen is not the only new TB technology of note. A new TB screening tool tests for the infection through a tongue swab, which is a significantly easier process than collecting sputum. The World Health Organization is forming guidance for the development of long-acting injectables (LAIs), a method of delivering medicine that has revolutionized treatment and prevention of many other diseases (including HIV\/AIDS).\n\nResearchers are producing new technologies to meet global health needs, but equal emphasis should be placed on guiding implementation and rollout of these innovations. And the innovations need to be flexible. For example, a study from October 2025 found that the BPaLM regimen remained effective for treating DR-TB regardless of whether patients were evaluated for drug resistance against moxifloxacin and other fluoroquinolones.\n\nMel Spigelman, MD, President and CEO of TB Alliance, is available for interviews discussing the continuing emergence of new technologies in the TB field\u2014including the promise of LAIs\u2014and the need for speed in their rollout.\n\nFor more information:\n\n- \u201c[Pulmonary Tuberculosis Detection with MiniDock MTB Using Swab Samples,](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/78945b2bc6e947e0a2ee5a3ae814395d?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nejm.org%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1056%2FNEJMoa2509761)\u201d New England Journal of Medicine, April 2026.\n- \u201c[Target regimen profiles for long-acting injectables for tuberculosis prevention & treatment](https:\/\/tx.bz-mail-us1.com\/1\/l\/14421088ac884805a984de68d47426c5?rl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.who.int%2Fnews-room%2Farticles-detail%2Finvitation-for-public-comment-on-draft-who-target-regimen-profiles-for-long-acting-injectable-regimens-for-tuberculosis-prevention-and-treatment),\u201d World Health Organization, April 2026.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"TB Alliance"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T11:06:39+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212864","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cambridge and Alsama Project partner on new school-leaver qualification to help refugees and displaced youth access university, training and jobs worldwide","body":"**Cambridge and NGO Alsama Project are looking to engage with funders, policymakers and other partners to support them as they scale the qualification worldwide**\n\nCambridge University Press & Assessment (Cambridge) and NGO Alsama Project have signed an agreement during the Education World Forum in London to collaborate on a new qualification for refugees and displaced young people. They are looking to engage with funders, policymakers and other partners to support them as they scale the qualification worldwide. The new G12++ qualification is designed to tackle the education crisis faced by displaced youth excluded from university, training and employment, providing them with a recognised pathway to further education and skilled employment.\n\nThe agreement was signed in the presence of senior representatives of the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, UNESCO, and the Lebanese Ministry of Education & Higher Education. It will see Cambridge and Alsama Project work together for displaced young people, with the objective of scaling the initiative internationally and enhancing the G12++\u2019s recognition among universities, employers, and policymakers.\n\nGlobally, [UNHCR data](https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refugee-statistics\/data-summaries?data_summaries%5Bregion%5D=&data_summaries%5Bcountry%5D=&data_summaries%5Bview%5D=population_totals&data_summaries%5Byear%5D=2025&data_summaries%5BpopType%5D=FDP&data_summaries%5B_mode%5D=global&data_summaries%5B_token%5D=e300e12890017ee4b6fea6f961.GY4AH-Lp0sFJiey4FqfQnsyMkdCtBCqT-cCQUmN2KqM.XbZueKObmPEAxrjsX8S97oDYqaHqZ0TrsomnOjslddpA3nl0kpCQpj-73A&data_summaries%5Bsubmit%5D=) show there are 117.3 million forcibly displaced people, including 49 million displaced children. Only 9% of refugees around the world attend higher education, compared with an average of 42% among the global population. Millions of talented young people are locked out of higher education and skilled work, not through lack of ability, but lack of proof. Without a formal high school certificate to show universities, vocational programmes and employers, displaced young people are being left behind, and the world is missing out on access to this talent pool.\n\nIn response, Alsama Project \u2013 an NGO based in Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon that educates teenagers outside of formal schooling \u2013 established the G12++. Originally inspired by Alsama students themselves, the qualification is designed as an alternative to traditional secondary school exit exams for learners whose education has been disrupted.\n\nThe G12++ is curriculum agnostic and aims to embrace international standards while remaining relevant to a learner\u2019s refugee context. It gauges their capabilities, not their ability to recite content. Questions are crafted to be relatable to real life \u2013 highlighting critical thinking, soft skills, and potential.\n\nOver the past two years, Cambridge has worked with Alsama to strengthen the assessment approach and support exam development. This work draws on Cambridge\u2019s experience delivering assessments to more than 8 million learners each year in over 170 countries.\n\nAlsama Project launched the first G12++ examination in February 2026 in Shatila refugee camp. Several students who arrived in the camps unable to read or do basic maths have now attained the G12++ qualification, a significant milestone earned through a rigorous, assessed programme. This credential enables students to validate their learning and secure access to universities, vocational training and employment.\n\nThe new agreement will build on this foundation to serve learners globally.\n\nCambridge and Alsama Project will work together to:\n\n- Further develop the G12++ qualification and supporting learning programme.\n- Expand delivery through a network of trusted NGO partners around the world.\n- Build recognition with universities, vocational education providers and employers.\n- Engage governments and international bodies.\n- Work with funders to support implementation and scale.\n\nCambridge and Alsama Project have announced they are looking for universities, employers, TVET institutions and policymakers to partner with them to scale the G12++ worldwide.\n\n**Jane Mann, Managing Director, Partnership for Education, Cambridge, said:**\n\n*\u201cIn times of conflict, education is so often among the first casualties. The global education crisis caused by forced displacement will only grow as climate change and conflict uproot more young people.*\n\n*\u201cWhen young people are forced to leave school and flee, it\u2019s not only their past they leave behind, but their future too. Working with Alsama Project, we will help them take back their futures through a new global qualification that will open pathways to universities, vocational programmes and employment. Displaced youth across the globe need models that reflect their realities \u2013 and the world needs their talents.*\n\n*\u201cWhat began as an idea in a Lebanese refugee camp will, we hope, transform the life chances of millions of refugees and displaced youth worldwide. We are proud to partner with Alsama Project to develop and scale up the G12++. This grassroots NGO has been driving much-needed innovation in non-formal education for displaced youth in the Middle East and beyond, and we look forward to helping them deliver these innovations globally.\u201d*\n\n**Meike Ziervogel, Co-Founder and CEO of Alsama Project, said:**\n\n*\"The G12++ partnership with Cambridge is a milestone \u2013 not just for Alsama's students, but for the millions of displaced youth worldwide who have been told that their education doesn't count because it happened outside a formal system.*\n\n*\u201cCambridge has spent over 160 years defining what rigorous, credible assessment looks like. Their involvement sends a clear signal: a qualification built inside a refugee camp can demonstrate a level of academic rigour that meets global benchmarks, opening doors for students who have survived war and displacement.*\n\n*\u201cThe barrier has never been ability. What has been missing is recognition. The G12++ exists to change that \u2013 and Cambridge's partnership is what makes that argument impossible to ignore.\"*\n\n**Wissal Al-Jaber, a refugee student who fled Syria to Lebanon at the age of 9, after having spent a year imprisoned by Islamic State with her family, said:**\n\n*\u201cI have survived war more than once. Each time, I told myself: hold on to your education \u2014 because war may threaten your present, but education will protect your future. I have not had the opportunity to complete a full education, but I deserve the same future opportunities as those who have. The G12++ gives me that. It is exactly what I need to show the world what I am capable of \u2014 and to finally follow the dream that grew inside me for years. I want to study psychology, to build a future where my story becomes my strength.\u201d*\n\n**Professor Bhaskar Vira, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Environmental Sustainability, University of Cambridge said**:\n\n*\u201cAs a University of Sanctuary, the University of Cambridge is committed to supporting displaced people who come to the UK. Now, working with Alsama Project, we will be able to support them across the world, while demonstrating that high-quality assessment for displaced and marginalised learners is both achievable and replicable. As such, the G12++ is a unique, transformative opportunity for refugee youth, universities and the global education community alike.\u201d*\n\n**Patrick Derham, G12++ Advisor and Former Headmaster of Westminster School, said**:\n\n*\u201cIn both my personal experience and my work in education, I continuously see firsthand the unjust barriers that disadvantaged youth across the world face. While the solution is multi-faceted, the G12++ offers a critical part of it: an internationally-recognised qualification that is curriculum-agnostic.*\n\n*\u201cThrough this qualification, we can provide a pathway to higher education and employment for many who are currently excluded, despite their drive and talent, unlocking the incredible potential of so many to benefit the world.*\n\n*\u201cOf all the projects that I have been involved with, this is the one that has the potential to make the greatest difference.\u201d*\n\n**ABOUT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS & ASSESSMENT**\n\nCambridge University Press & Assessment is a world leader in assessment, education, research and academic publishing. We are part of the University of Cambridge and share its mission \u2018to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest international levels of excellence\u2019. This connection gives us an unrivalled depth of experience in research, academic publishing, national education systems, international education and English language learning. Find out more about our work with national education systems at [https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/partnership](https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/partnership)\n\n*For more information, please contact Salman Shaheen \u2013 salman@carterfleet.com*","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"University of Cambridge"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:59:52+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212863","score":1,"fields":{"title":"RD Congo : Situation humanitaire dans la province de l'Ituri \u2013 rapport de situation #5, 19 mai 2026","body":"Ce rapport est produit par OCHA RDC en collaboration avec les partenaires humanitaires. Il couvre la p\u00e9riode du 1er au 30 avril 2026\n\n**FAITS MAJEURS**\n\n\u2022 L\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 persistante autour de Bule, dans le territoire de Djugu, continue d\u2019exposer les civils aux violences et de limiter l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la nourriture et aux moyens de subsistance ;\n\n\u2022 Plus de 29 600 personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es dans le territoire de Mambasa restent confront\u00e9es \u00e0 d\u2019importants besoins humanitaires, sans assistance ad\u00e9quate \u00e0 ce jour ;\n\n\u2022 Les violences arm\u00e9es continuent de perturber les services essentiels en Ituri, avec la fermeture d\u2019\u00e9coles et de structures de sant\u00e9 affectant des milliers de personnes.\n\n**CHIFFRES CL\u00c9S**\n\n980 000 personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes au 30\/4\/2026 (Source : CMP Ituri, le 7\/5\/2026)  \n 16 900 personnes ont re\u00e7u des soins de sant\u00e9 au sein de la province (Source : Cluster Sant\u00e9, le 30\/4\/2026)  \n 110 000 personnes ont re\u00e7u une assistance mon\u00e9taire dans le territoire de Djugu (Source: Cluster SECAL, le 30\/4\/2026)\n\n**APER\u00c7U DE LA SITUATION**  \n**Territoire de Djugu**  \n Au cours du mois d\u2019avril, la zone de sant\u00e9 (ZS) de Fataki, notamment autour de la localit\u00e9 de Bule, est rest\u00e9e affect\u00e9e par une ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 persistante, exposant les civils aux violences des groupes arm\u00e9s et limitant l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux champs et aux moyens de subsistance. Selon des sources locales, plus de 10 personnes auraient \u00e9t\u00e9 tu\u00e9es et une vingtaine bless\u00e9e parmi les d\u00e9plac\u00e9s internes alors qu\u2019elles collectaient de la nourriture pr\u00e8s du site de Plaine Savo entre le 6 et le 28 avril. Les d\u00e9plac\u00e9s font face \u00e0 d\u2019importantes difficult\u00e9s d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la nourriture, l\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire au site restant fortement limit\u00e9 en raison des affrontements entre groupes arm\u00e9s dans les environs. La derni\u00e8re distribution alimentaire remonte \u00e0 d\u00e9cembre 2025, compromettant davantage la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire des personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es.  \n L\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 persistante a \u00e9galement entra\u00een\u00e9 l\u2019abandon quasi total de Bule, poussant les habitants \u00e0 se r\u00e9fugier sur le site de Plaine Savo. Plus de 26 800 personnes avaient d\u00e9j\u00e0 fui la zone de sant\u00e9 de Fataki vers celle voisine de Rethy durant la premi\u00e8re moiti\u00e9 d\u2019avril. Les affrontements du 28 avril \u00e0 Pimbo et une attaque arm\u00e9e le 29 avril contre le village de Bbasa auraient par ailleurs fait sept morts et d\u00e9plac\u00e9 environ 200 personnes vers Jina, o\u00f9 elles pr\u00e9sentent d\u2019importants besoins humanitaires, selon les autorit\u00e9s locales.","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:57:47+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212861","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WeWorld Flash Update #4 \u2013 Humanitarian needs persist despite Ceasefire (19 May 2026)","body":"Despite the Cessation of Hostilities (CoH) agreement that came into effect on 17 April 2026 and was recently extended through June, Israeli military activity across Lebanon continues, particularly in the South. Airstrikes remain intense and have increasingly expanded into parts of the Bekaa region, further worsening humanitarian conditions and civilian insecurity.","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"WeWorld"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:46:54+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212857","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Unpaid Care & Loss and Damage in Bangladesh","body":"## **Overview**\n\nThis report combines literature review and quantitative analysis to explore the gendered impacts of climate crises, with emphasis on unpaid care work. It finds that unpaid care hours increase for low-income women in high climate vulnerability areas, and argues that care-related impacts must be acknowledged and addressed in climate responses around Loss & Damage. It then explores gaps in existing policy to make recommendations on how best to do this.","country":[{"id":31,"name":"Bangladesh","shortname":"Bangladesh","iso3":"bgd","location":{"lat":23.84,"lon":90.27},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Oxfam"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:33:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212856","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Africa CDC and The Global Fund Join Forces for Stronger, Self-Reliant Health Systems","body":"**GENEVA** \u2013 The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) is intensifying its collaboration with regional partners to drive impact and support countries on their path toward self-reliance.\n\nToday, this approach was highlighted with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), in the margins of the World Health Assembly.\n\nAs global health financing evolves and resources become more constrained, the Global Fund is adapting its strategy to ensure investments are targeted where needs are greatest. This includes prioritizing the poorest, highest-burden countries, reinforcing sustainability and supporting predictable, nationally led transitions away from external financing. The partnership with Africa CDC reflects this shift toward deeper regional leadership and more unified health systems.\n\n\u201cThis partnership is an important step toward Africa\u2019s health sovereignty,\u201d said Dr. Jean Kaseya, Director-General of Africa CDC. \u201cTogether, we are helping build a safer, stronger and more self-reliant Africa.\u201d\n\n\u201cThis collaboration reflects how we are evolving our partnerships \u2013 supporting national and regional leadership while strengthening the systems, workforce and supply chains needed to save lives and sustain progress,\u201d said Peter Sands, Executive Director of the Global Fund.\n\n**A Partnership to Strengthen Health Systems and Advance Self-Reliance**\n\nUnder the MoU, the two institutions will work together to:\n\n- Expand integrated service delivery, community health workforce capacity, laboratory systems, surveillance and digital health tools.\n- Strengthen regional procurement, manufacturing and supply chain capabilities, including support for the African Pooled Procurement Mechanism, to advance collaborative procurement approaches that improve access, supply resilience and sustainable health markets across Africa.\n- Advance domestic financing, public financial management systems and sustainable transition pathways.\n- Support African leadership in shaping global health security and equitable access to health technologies.\n\n**A Shared Vision for a Healthy and Resilient Africa**\n\nThis collaboration builds on long\u2011standing commitments to country leadership and integrated health systems, while strengthening how these principles are translated into coordinated action. As the Global Fund prepares for its next grant cycle, this shared approach will guide how resources are deployed: prioritizing the highest\u2011burden settings, supporting predictable transitions and ensuring investments strengthen national systems and leadership for long-term impact.\n\nTogether, the Global Fund and Africa CDC aim to accelerate progress toward ending AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030 while contributing to stronger, sustainable and more self-reliant health systems across the continent.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:26:30+00:00"}}}]}