{"time":56,"took":32,"totalCount":1134944,"count":100,"data":[{"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 (as of 31 March 2026)","body":"After 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. As 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":"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":"4212958","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director, Crisis Response Division, OCHA, on behalf of Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General 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":"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.","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":"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\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\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.","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":"4212931","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cluster sant\u00e9 Tchad: veille informationnelle des activit\u00e9s_S20","country":[{"id":55,"name":"Chad","shortname":"Chad","iso3":"tcd","location":{"lat":15.36,"lon":18.66},"primary":true}],"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":"4212917","score":1,"fields":{"title":"EUAA country of origin information report: Pakistan - Country Focus (May 2026)","body":"**The EUAA has just published a new Country of Origin Information (COI)** [**report**](https:\/\/www.euaa.europa.eu\/publications\/coi-report-pakistan-country-focus-1) **on Pakistan. The report highlights an increasingly volatile security situation in Pakistan, exacerbated by economic turmoil and political instability, with the country ranked as the most terrorism-affected in 2025.**\n\nWhile the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) (PML-N), in coalition with the Pakistan People\u2019s Party (PPP) and smaller allies, remained in power and strengthened its parliamentary position through November 2025 by-elections, the political opposition led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) remained constrained by arrests, legal proceedings, and disqualifications. Meanwhile, violence increased in scale and lethality in 2024\u20132025, with militancy identified as the main driver of insecurity amid intensified state responses. The violence was largely concentrated in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, which accounted for most incidents and fatalities.\n\nEnforced disappearances, arbitrary detention, and restrictions on civic space in Pakistan continued, with allegations of legal action and arrests affecting political activists, journalists, and opposition figures. The space for dissent was described as shrinking amid the deployment of security and anti-terrorism laws. Incidents of discrimination and violence against ethnic and religious minorities were also reported. Additional concerns were reported regarding women and children, as well as LGBTIQ+ persons, who faced alleged violence, discrimination, and limited access to services.\n\n## EU Asylum situation for Pakistani nationals\n\nBetween November 2024 and March 2026, Pakistani nationals **lodged 27 000 applications** for international protection in the EU+. In 2025, applications (19 000) decreased by almost a fifth compared to the previous year, reaching the lowest number since 2020. In the first three months of 2026, applications (4 400) continued to decrease, representing a year-on-year decrease of around a fifth.\n\nIn the 17 months up to March 2026, more than half of the applications were lodged in **Italy**, the main EU+ country of destination for Pakistani applicants since 2017, followed by **Greece** and **France**. The **recognition rate for Pakistani applicants was 12 %**. At the end of March 2026, nearly 30 000 Pakistani applications were awaiting a decision at first instance, representing a slight decrease compared to the beginning of 2025 (34 000), when pending cases had reached their highest level since 2016.\n\nThe EUAA regularly produces and updates [Country of Origin Information](https:\/\/coi.euaa.europa.eu\/) reports, which aim to provide accurate and reliable up-to-date information on third countries to support EU+ national asylum authorities in examining applications for international protection in Europe.","country":[{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"European Union Agency for Asylum"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T13:33:16+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"}}},{"id":"4212855","score":1,"fields":{"title":"South Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan 2025 In Review","body":"In 2025, South Sudan continued to face multiple, overlapping shocks and trends that worsened the humanitarian situation and increased the needs of vulnerable communities. According to the 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan (HNRP), an estimated 9.3 million people, approximately three-quarters of the population, required humanitarian assistance. Several factors, including protracted conflict, intercommunal violence, the worsening food insecurity and economic crisis, spillover effects from the Sudan crisis, insufficient humanitarian funding and extreme climate events such as flooding and localised dry spells, exacerbated the humanitarian situation. South Sudan remains one of the most dangerous contexts for humanitarians. In 2025, continued attacks on civilians, humanitarian staff and assets severely constrained the delivery of life-saving assistance and worsened the fragile situation in affected communities. At least 21 humanitarian workers were killed in the line of duty, while 606 humanitarian access incidents were reported during the year, up from 453 incidents in 2024. Despite these challenges, humanitarians reached approximately 4.3 million people across South Sudan with assistance. This represents 81 per cent of the 5.4 million people, including some 680,000 refugees, targeted through the 2025 HNRP. This includes more than 3.1 million people who received food assistance and livelihood support, and about 2 million people who accessed health care services. In addition, nearly 707,000 people received protection services, while some 500,000 people accessed safe water and sanitation services. At least 530,000 people received emergency shelter and essential household items, while some 620,000 people were reached through camp coordination and camp management services. About 1.2 million children, as well as pregnant and lactating women, were provided with emergency nutritional assistance, and 330,000 children were supported to access education in emergencies. A total of 8,169 metric tonnes of humanitarian cargo were transported during the year. In 2025, only US $763 million, representing 45 per cent of the US $1.7 billion required for the HNRP, was received. Despite this funding shortfall, 293 humanitarian organisations, 66 per cent of which were South Sudanese non-governmental organisations, contributed to the response, reaching people in dire need across the country.","country":[{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:22:49+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212853","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Somalia Crisis Cannot Wait, Never Again: End the Funding Exclusion, Save Lives Now","body":"Joint Statement by Joining Forces Alliance, East and Southern Africa Region\n\n*ChildFund Alliance, Plan International, Save the Children International, SOS Children\u2019s Villages International, Terre des Hommes International Federation, and World Vision International*\n\nThe Joining Forces Alliance expresses deep alarm at the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Somalia. The latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) findings show that nearly 6.5 million people across Somalia are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, while more than 1.8 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition. Among them, hundreds of thousands face severe acute malnutrition requiring urgent treatment.\n\nThese are not simply numbers. They represent children going to bed hungry, families forced from their homes by repeated drought and conflict, and mothers struggling to make impossible trade-offs to keep their children alive.\n\nSomalia is once again approaching the brink of catastrophe. Unlike previous crises, this emergency unfolds as humanitarian resources shrink, and Somalia is excluded from key pooled funding mechanisms within the international humanitarian system. Alarming data confirm a sharp reduction in humanitarian resources. Figures show that funding requirements dropped from approximately $1.42 billion in the 2025 Humanitarian Response Plan to $852 million in 2026\u2014nearly a 40 per cent reduction, not due to declining needs, but tough funding decisions.\n\n**Exclusion from Pooled Funds is Deepening the Crisis**\n\nAt the very moment Somalia requires rapid and flexible financing, the country has been excluded from major pooled funding allocations. This exclusion comes at a time when there is clear evidence of escalating need, despite repeated warnings from humanitarian actors operating across the country.\n\nAlthough the Somalia Humanitarian Fund continue to provide important support, the scale of available funding remains far below growing humanitarian needs. This funding gap is severely constraining humanitarian organisations from expanding critical life-saving interventions. Programmes providing food, nutrition, water, health, child protection, and gender-based violence support are being reduced or incapacitated. Frontline Somali organisations must do more with less, even as needs continue to rise.\n\nThis is not only a funding gap. It is a failure of prioritisation and a blow to humanitarian action.\n\nSomalia has demonstrated before that famine is preventable when the international community acts early and decisively. In 2022, coordinated support from donors helped avert a far greater tragedy. Today, however, delayed decisions and shrinking resources are placing millions of lives at risk of unnecessary and preventable tragedy.\n\n**Women and Children are Bearing the Heaviest Burden**\n\nChildren are at the centre of this crisis. Hunger, displacement, and the collapse of basic services are exposing children to disease, exploitation, child labour, family separation and loss of education.\n\nWomen and girls are facing heightened risks of violence and abuse as they travel longer distances in search of water, food and firewood, or live in overcrowded and unsafe displacement sites.\n\nWithout urgent investment in protection and essential services, the consequences for children and families will be devastating and long-lasting.\n\n**Our Call to Donors**\n\nThe Joining Forces Alliance, East and Southern Africa, urgently calls on bilateral and multilateral donors, including OCHA-managed funding mechanisms, to:\n\n- Reverse Somalia\u2019s exclusion from key pooled funds and immediately allocate additional emergency resources to Somalia.\n- Provide early, flexible and predictable funding that enables humanitarian actors to respond before conditions deteriorate further.\n- Prioritise support to national and local organisations that have access, community trust and the capacity to deliver humanitarian assistance quickly.\n- Increase multi-year investments that link humanitarian response with resilience, drought preparedness and recovery.\n- Reduce administrative barriers that delay the release of life-saving funds.\n\nWe join the Somali NGO Consortium, which recently submitted an open letter to Donors, to assert that the cost of inaction will be measured in lives lost, communities destabilised, and a generation of Somali children permanently affected by hunger and deprivation.\n\nThe world pledged \u201cNever Again\u201d after the 2011 famine in Somalia claimed more than a quarter of a million lives, many of them children. That promise is now being tested.\n\nSomalia does not need sympathy alone. It needs urgent action, political attention, and immediate financing.\n\nThe humanitarian warning signs are clear. The solutions are known. What is needed now is the courage and commitment to act before it is too late.\n\n**The Joining Forces Alliance stands in solidarity with the people of Somalia and urges all partners to respond now.**","country":[{"id":216,"name":"Somalia","shortname":"Somalia","iso3":"som","location":{"lat":5.79,"lon":47.33},"primary":true}],"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":"2026-05-20T10:13:24+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212850","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNHCR Middle East Situation: Emergency Update #18 as of 19 May 2026","body":"Since late February, escalating hostilities in Iran and Lebanon have triggered humanitarian consequences with impact across the region, including refugee returns in adverse circumstances to Afghanistan and Syria. Events are unfolding against an already fragile humanitarian baseline, with over 24 million forcibly displaced people hosted across the wider region prior to the current escalation, alongside host communities under significant economic and social strain. Inter agency emergency response is underway to address urgent needs. In Iran, the Flash Refugee Response Plan targets refugees and others in need of international protection alongside affected host communities. In Lebanon, a Flash Appeal complements the broader response under the Lebanon Response Plan to deliver life saving assistance and protection, including to Syrian refugees. In Afghanistan, the funding requirement for the returns response is outlined under the Humanitarian Needs & Response Plan. UNHCR and partners have been working across countries neighbouring Iran to strengthen preparedness for possible large-scale refugee flows, in support of national authorities. Preparedness measures are in place, including border monitoring, reception and protection readiness, but these arrangements remain highly dependent on flexible and predictable funding in an increasingly constrained resource environment.","country":[{"id":121,"name":"Iran (Islamic Republic of)","shortname":"Iran","iso3":"irn","location":{"lat":32.57,"lon":54.3},"primary":true},{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03}},{"id":23,"name":"Armenia","shortname":"Armenia","iso3":"arm","location":{"lat":40.61,"lon":44.66}},{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89}},{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39}},{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51}},{"id":236,"name":"T\u00fcrkiye","shortname":"T\u00fcrkiye","iso3":"tur","location":{"lat":39.06,"lon":35.18}},{"id":237,"name":"Turkmenistan","shortname":"Turkmenistan","iso3":"tkm","location":{"lat":39.12,"lon":59.38}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T10:03:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212846","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Equality Now calls on African governments to strengthen laws on sexual violence, FGM, and women\u2019s rights","body":"**Banjul, The Gambia, May 20, 2026:** Millions of women and girls remain without adequate legal protection due to the failure of African governments to enact and effectively enforce national laws and regional agreements, Equality Now warned at the African Commission on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights\u2019 (ACHPR) 87th Ordinary Session in Banjul, The Gambia.\n\nEsther Waweru, Associate Director for Legal Equality at Equality Now, delivered a [statement to the ACHPR](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/statements\/statement-by-equality-now-observer-status-no-281-on-the-occasion-of-the-87th-ordinary-session-of-the-african-commission-on-human-and-peoples-rights\/) on May 12, 2026, calling on African Union (AU) Member States to do more to address sexual violence, female genital mutilation (FGM), online safety, sexual and reproductive healthcare access, and discriminatory matrimonial property rights.\n\n\u201cMillions of women and girls across Africa live under laws and systems that don\u2019t uphold their human rights. Countries have made binding commitments to advance gender equality, but gaps in legal protections, weak implementation of laws, and poor accountability are leaving many without equal rights, safeguards, or justice. African governments must move beyond rhetoric to deliver the legal reforms, protections, and accountability mechanisms women and girls urgently need,\u201d Waweru explains.\n\n**Rape laws in Africa continue to fail survivors of sexual violence**\n\nEquality Now's report [Barriers to Justice: Rape in Africa, Law, Practice and Access to Justice](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/news\/press-releases\/gaps-in-rape-laws-in-africa-are-enabling-perpetrators-to-avoid-punishment\/) analysed rape laws across 47 countries and found significant shortcomings. Sexual violence laws in some countries still require proof that physical force, threats, or violence was used. Such restrictive definitions place undue burdens on survivors to provide evidence, and disregard the varying contexts in which sexual violence occurs, including through intimidation, coercion, fraud, or unequal power dynamics that make it impossible to give genuine consent.\n\nAuthorities often fail to properly investigate, prosecute, or convict rape cases, while discriminatory gender stereotypes can influence judicial decisions, leading to reduced charges, lighter sentences, or perpetrators escaping punishment altogether.\n\nRape cases are sometimes resolved through out-of-court settlements via informal community mediation, with victim-blaming and social pressure often compelling survivors to withdraw legal complaints or remain silent.\n\nKenya, whose State Report was reviewed by the ACHPR during its 87th session, retains a marital rape exemption allowing husbands to avoid prosecution for raping their wives.\n\nEquality Now called on the Commission to encourage Kenya to remove legal loopholes permitting rape within marriage, and reform sexual offences laws in line with the [Niamey Guidelines](https:\/\/achpr.au.int\/en\/node\/848), which set regional standards for preventing and responding to sexual violence, and the [Maputo Protocol](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/resource\/legal-manuals-and-bench-books\/enhancing-gender-justice-through-jurisprudence-tools-for-judicial-application-of-the-maputo-protocol\/), the landmark AU treaty outlining governments\u2019 obligations to end gender-based violence, ensure reproductive rights, and eliminate harmful practices.\n\nRestrictions on sexual and reproductive health services persist, especially harming rape survivors. Equality Now commended AU Member States that recognise sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as a constitutional right. For example, in October 2025, [Malawi\u2019s High Court ruled](https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/malawi-permits-safe-abortion-for-survivors-of-sexual-assault\/a-74576001) that denying a 14-year-old rape survivor access to a safe termination of pregnancy was a SRHR violation, and forcing a child to carry a pregnancy resulting from rape constitutes \u201charsh and inhumane\u201d treatment.\n\nEquality Now urged all African governments to prosecute sexual violence, whether perpetrated during peacetime or conflict, and to adopt a survivor-centred approach built upon comprehensive reparations frameworks that provide compensation, medical and psychosocial support, and legal assistance to survivors.\n\n**Discrimination in matrimonial property rights laws in Africa**\n\nEquality Now\u2019s report, [Gender inequality in family laws in Africa](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/news\/press-releases\/women-in-africa-face-discrimination-in-family-laws\/), maps how women face significant challenges relating to unpaid work within the family context and discrimination in property distribution during marriage annulment, separation, or divorce.\n\nArticle 7(d) of the Maputo Protocol requires equitable distribution of matrimonial property, yet in practice, this standard is often unmet. In Nigeria, property division is based entirely on direct financial contributions, leaving many women with little or nothing following divorce. In Kenya, Malawi, and South Africa, both direct and indirect contributions should be accounted for, but courts frequently fail to adequately value women\u2019s unpaid labour.\n\nAll Member States should pass and implement legislation recognising the full value of women's unpaid domestic and caregiving work within the family, and implement [General Comment No. 6 on the Maputo Protocol](https:\/\/achpr.au.int\/en\/node\/906) mandating an equitable sharing of joint property based upon both financial and non-financial contributions.\n\n**Criminalising FGM in Liberia and upholding The Gambia\u2019s law banning FGM**\n\nEquality Now acknowledged ongoing efforts in Liberia to address harmful practices affecting women and girls, and calls on lawmakers to criminalise FGM by fast-tracking passage of the pending [Women and Girls Protection Bill](https:\/\/frontpageafricaonline.com\/gender-issues\/liberia-at-a-crossroads-female-lawyers-urge-swift-passage-of-landmark-anti-fgm-law\/).\n\nIn The Gambia, the Supreme Court is considering a case seeking to overturn the ban on FGM under the Women\u2019s (Amendment) Act 2015, with petitioners arguing on constitutional grounds that the current anti-FGM law violates cultural and religious freedoms. Equality Now called on the State to defend and fully implement the Act as repeal would endanger women and girls, undermine years of progress, and set a dangerous precedent by revoking hard-won legal safeguards.\n\n**Online gender-based violence in Africa**\n\nAcross Africa, weak, outdated, and fragmented digital governance frameworks leave women and girls vulnerable to harm online, including [tech-facilitated gender-based violence](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/news\/press-releases\/experts-call-for-action-to-tackle-overlap-between-offline-and-online-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-in-kenya\/). Most countries rely on narrow cybercrime laws that lack gender perspectives, resulting in disproportionate censorship, surveillance, or penalisation of those seeking protection, while allowing online harassment, exploitation, misinformation and disinformation, and algorithmic biases to proliferate.\n\nThe concentration of digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence systems in the Global North risks reinforcing digital colonialism and embedding racial and gender bias into technologies.\n\nAfrican states should establish binding due diligence and transparency requirements for transnational technology companies, align digital governance frameworks with the Maputo Protocol, invest in gender-responsive digital capacity building for women and girls, and strengthen access to remedies for survivors of digital harms.\n\n**Domestication and implementation of the Maputo Protocol in South Sudan**\n\nSouth Sudan ratified the Maputo Protocol in 2023. Three years on, women and girls face conflict-related sexual violence, entrenched harmful practices, and weak legal protections and inadequate enforcement, underpinned by deep-rooted patriarchal norms.\n\nThe country's ongoing constitution-making process offers a time-bound opportunity to embed gender equality at the heart of legal and institutional reform. South Sudan needs to fully domesticate and implement the Protocol and expedite adoption of national laws that strengthen protections for women and girls.\n\n**END**\n\n**Notes to editors**\n\nFor media enquiries, contact Tara Carey, Associate Director, Media, Equality Now, tcarey@equalitynow.org.\n\nEsther Waweru is the Associate Director, Legal Equality at Equality Now. A lawyer with nearly two decades of experience, she focuses on advancing the rights of women, girls and marginalised communities across international and regional human rights platforms. [Read more about Esther's work at ](https:\/\/www.equalitynow.org\/)[equalitynow.org](https:\/\/equalitynow.org\/).\n\n**About Equality Now:** Equality Now is a worldwide human rights organisation dedicated to securing the legal and systemic change needed to end discrimination against all women and girls. Since its inception in 1992, it has played a role in reforming 120 discriminatory laws globally, positively impacting the lives of hundreds of millions of women and girls, their communities and nations, both now and for generations to come.\n\nWorking with partners at national, regional and global levels, Equality Now draws on deep legal expertise and a diverse range of social, political and cultural perspectives to continue to lead the way in steering, shaping and driving the change needed to achieve enduring gender equality, to the benefit of all.\n\nFor more details, go to [www.equalitynow.org](https:\/\/www.equalitynow.org\/), Bluesky [equalitynow.bsky.social](https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/equalitynow.bsky.social), Facebook [@equalitynoworg](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/equalitynoworg), Instagram [@equalitynoworg](https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/equalitynoworg), and LinkedIn [Equality Now](https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/equality-now).","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Equality Now"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T09:53:21+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212844","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Democratic Republic of Congo - East provinces and neighboring countries - General Reference Map","body":"This Regional map includes East DRC provinces (Sud-Kivu; Nord-Kivu; Ituri; Haut-Uele), and Uganda (up to Kampala), Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan border areas.","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":"M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T09:49:16+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212843","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Ecuador May Country Brief 2026","body":"**KEY HIGHLIGHTS**\n\n\u2022 Ecuador faces a complex migration situation, with  \nnearly 500,000 Venezuelan migrants, of whom  \nmore than 245,000 experience food insecurity,  \nplacing additional pressure on social protection  \nsystems and increasing the need for partners to  \nsupport food access.\n\n\u2022 The School Feeding Project is expanding and  \ncurrently provides fresh, nutritious meals to  \nstudents in rural schools, yet the system requires  \nexternal support to sustain coverage.","country":[{"id":81,"name":"Ecuador","shortname":"Ecuador","iso3":"ecu","location":{"lat":-1.16,"lon":-78.43},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T09:34:42+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212842","score":1,"fields":{"title":"West Bank Health Access, 1 January 2026 \u2013 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":"2026-05-20T09:33:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212840","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Sudan Key Facts and Figures (April 2026)","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T09:21:26+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212838","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Syrian Arab Republic: Comprehensive Overview of IDPs and IDP Returns Dashboard (As of 23 April 2026)","country":[{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T09:03:15+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212837","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Lebanon: Protection Sector Weekly Response Sitrep #9 - 2 March to 15 May 2026","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":"2026-05-20T09:03:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212823","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ebola outbreak 2026: What is MSF doing and how can I help?","body":"Ebola outbreak 2026: What is MSF doing and how can I help?MSF is mobilizing teams of medical, logistical, and support staff in response to this public health emergency.\n\nLeila Rafei May 19 2026, 3:14pm\n\nResponding to this outbreak is difficult as it involves the Bundibugyo virus, for which there is no approved treatment or vaccine. So far, there have been more than 536 patients with suspected cases and 134 suspected deaths in DRC. Some cases have been confirmed in North Kivu province, including its densely populated capital, Goma. There have also been two patients with confirmed cases in [Uganda](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/uganda), including one who died. However, the real extent of the outbreak remains unknown due to the lack of diagnostics and underreporting of cases.\n\n## What to know about the Ebola outbreak\n\nWhat is Ebola disease?\n\nEbola disease is a rare but deadly viral illness that can kill up to 90 percent of those infected. It can be difficult to diagnose because the early symptoms, like fever and sore throat, are common. To confirm an Ebola diagnosis, special laboratory tests need to be carried out.\n\nEbola is highly infectious and can be transmitted by both animals and humans. Human-to-human transmission happens through close contact with blood, secretions, or other bodily fluids of infected people. This is why people have to wear full personal protective equipment to prevent catching or spreading the virus.\n\nEbola disease is caused by four different viruses. While there is an [approved treatment and a preventive vaccine for the Zaire virus](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/latest\/vaccination-during-ebola-epidemics-reduces-risk-illness-84), there is no approved vaccine or treatment for the Bundibugyo virus currently spreading in DRC. Medical teams can give patients the best chance of survival by helping to manage the symptoms of the virus and treating other diseases the patient may have.\n\nOnce a patient recovers from Ebola disease, they\u2019re immune to the virus they contracted.\n\n### [Learn more about Ebola >](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/medical-issues\/ebola)\n\nHow is MSF responding to the Ebola outbreak?\n\nMSF is mobilizing teams of medical, logistical, and support staff with experience responding to Ebola. We are dispatching essential supplies to support a large-scale response to the affected provinces in DRC. We are also in contact with the Ugandan Ministry of Health, with teams standing by to provide support.\n\nCommunity engagement will be essential. If we do not gain people's trust, nothing else will matter. Vaccines, tests, treatment units, and contact tracing only work if people agree to participate.\n\nMSF is also working to ensure strict infection prevention measures are in place for [existing health care projects in DRC](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/democratic-republic-congo). We must protect patients and staff and ensure they can continue to access medical services.\n\nHow did the current Ebola outbreak start?\n\nOn May 9, MSF started receiving alerts of deaths from a \u201csuspected viral hemorrhagic fever\u201d spreading since the beginning of April. According to Congolese health authorities, the presumed first case of the disease occurred in a nurse who died at Evangelical Medical Center in Bunia in late April. There are some indications that the first cases started well before then but were not reported due to a lack of surveillance and alerts for authorities.\n\nWhat do we know about the Bundibugyo virus?\n\nUnlike most Ebola disease outbreaks that have occurred in DRC, this one is caused by the Bundibugyo virus, for which there is currently no approved vaccine or treatment. This is the third detected outbreak involving the Bundibugyo virus, following outbreaks in Uganda in 2007\u20132008 and in DRC in 2012. During the two previous outbreaks, the estimated fatality rate ranged from 25 to 40 percent.\n\nThe two monoclonal antibody treatments that were approved following clinical trials conducted in DRC between 2018 and 2020 are specific to the Zaire virus and are not effective or approved for Bundibugyo. While there are antiviral drugs and monoclonal antibody candidates for Bundibugyo virus, their efficacy has yet to be proven in clinical trials.\n\nIn the absence of targeted treatment, patient care relies primarily on symptom management and support to improve patients\u2019 chances of survival. This involves fluid replacement, oxygen therapy, and monitoring of blood and cardiac parameters.\n\nWhat have we learned from previous Ebola outbreaks?\n\nA typical Ebola response comprises six main pillars: care and isolation of patients; contact tracing and follow up of patient contacts; raising community awareness of the disease, such as how to prevent it and where to seek care; conducting safe burials; proactively detecting new cases; and supporting existing health structures.\n\nOne lesson we've learned from past Ebola disease outbreaks is that we need to maintain access to regular health care, such as treatment for [malaria](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/medical-issues\/malaria), [measles](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/medical-issues\/measles) vaccination, and sexual and reproductive health care. Ebola is not the only public health emergency in DRC, which also sees high fatalities from preventable diseases. DRC continues to endure multiple humanitarian crises, particularly in the [eastern regions](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/latest\/conflict-dr-congo-whats-happening-how-help), so one of our main priorities is to continue safely running our existing medical activities, ensuring people have access to essential health care when they need it.\n\nThe outbreak in DRC is happening in provinces affected by [ongoing conflict](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/latest\/conflict-dr-congo-whats-happening-how-help), with millions of people displaced from their homes and moving across borders into neighboring countries, complicating identification, follow-up, and isolation of cases.\n\n## How can I help MSF?\n\nBy giving to MSF today, you will be helping to ensure we can respond to emergencies like the Ebola outbreak at a moment's notice.\n\n[Donate](https:\/\/give.doctorswithoutborders.org\/campaign\/802693\/donate)\n\n## Ebola: \"This gives you a vision of how crazy it is right now\"\n\n\\[Watch on YouTube\\](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/[https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/RPeH359zGGo](https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/RPeH359zGGo) \"Ebola: \"This gives you a vision of how crazy it is right now\"\")\n\n2014 \u2013 2016\n\n## Responding to Ebola in West Africa\n\nBetween late 2014 and 2016, an outbreak of Ebola in West Africa became a major international emergency. The severity of the epidemic caused MSF to launch one of the largest emergency operations in our history.\n\nMSF responded in the three most affected countries \u2014 [Guinea](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/guinea), [Sierra Leone](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/sierra-leone), and [Liberia](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/liberia) \u2014 and also to the spread of cases to [Nigeria](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/nigeria), Senegal, and [Mali](https:\/\/www.doctorswithoutborders.org\/what-we-do\/where-we-work\/mali). At the peak of the epidemic, MSF employed nearly 4,000 national staff and more than 325 international staff who ran Ebola management centers as well as conducted surveillance, contact tracing, health promotion, and provided psychological support.\n\nMSF admitted 10,310 patients to its Ebola management centers, of which 5,201 were confirmed Ebola cases, representing one-third of all WHO-confirmed cases.\n\n*Left: Health workers transfer a patient after he was treated at the MSF-supported Ebola Treatment Center in Butembo. DR Congo 2018 \u00a9 John Wessels*\n\nView more\n\n## We speak out. Get updates.","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":"2026-05-20T08:03:38+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212822","score":1,"fields":{"title":"EUAA Country of Origin Information: Colombia - Country Focus (May 2026)","body":"**Introduction**\n\nThe purpose of this report is to provide relevant information in view of the assessment of international protection, including refugee status and subsidiary protection, and to the development of EUAA\u2019s country guidance on Pakistan. This report intends to capture a selection of the main issues relevant to international protection in the assessment of claims from Pakistani nationals. The report covers the period of 1 November 2024 \u2013 6 April 2026.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"European Union Agency for Asylum"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T08:03:18+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212820","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UN and partners appeal for USD 710.5 million to meet the critical needs of Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi host communities [EN\/BN]","body":"Dhaka, 20 May 2026 \u2013 The United Nations and its partners, in close coordination with the Government of Bangladesh, call for renewed international support \u2014 appealing for USD 710.5 million to meet the most critical needs of Rohingya refugees in the Cox\u2019s Bazar camps and on Bhasan Char, as well as local host communities. The call comes amid growing global instability and rising humanitarian pressures, which have forced difficult prioritization and threatened essential services for vulnerable populations.\n\nSustained international assistance remains crucial to bolstering Bangladesh\u2019s response as it continues to generously host refugees until a durable solution is achieved. Nearly a decade after fleeing targeted violence and persecution in Myanmar, some 1.2 million Rohingya refugees now reside in Bangladesh. Needs continue to rise as conflict in Myanmar forces more people to flee.\n\nSince early 2024, some 150,000 Rohingya have newly arrived, straining limited humanitarian resources and intensifying pressure on overcrowded camps. The scaled-down, hyper-prioritized 2026 update of the Joint Response Plan (JRP) for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis will reach up to 1.56 million people, including refugees and Bangladeshi host communities.\n\nThe USD 710.5 million appeal\u201426% lower than in 2025\u2014 covers only the minimum required to sustain lifesaving assistance. It includes USD 247.3 million for food, USD 128 million for shelter, USD 61.2 million for water, sanitation and hygiene, USD 52.7 million for education, USD 49.9 million for health, and USD 35.1 million for livelihoods and skills development. It also includes USD 36.2 million, across all sectors, in support for host communities affected by the crisis.\n\nFrom 2017 to the end of 2025, the international community has contributed nearly USD 5.42 billion in humanitarian funding to the Rohingya response \u2013 with the United States remaining the largest donor \u2013 allowing Bangladesh to sustain lifesaving assistance and making possible major progress in refugee education, health and protection. However, significant humanitarian needs persist and, without continued international solidarity, Rohingya families risk losing precious gains.\n\n\u201cAs resources become more limited, it is more important than ever to help refugees build skills and resilience, so they can gain independence, hold on to hope, and rebuild their lives,\u201d said Kelly T. Clements, Deputy High Commissioner of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.\n\n\u201cUntil the Rohingya can return home in safety and can rebuild their communities there, we must continue to provide safety, care, and dignity where they are. The humanitarian community is working hard to deliver this support as efficiently as possible as we continue to see resources decline. But the needs remain enormous, and efficiencies alone cannot offset the very real impacts of funding cuts on the Rohingya people and the impact on their host communities. Helping the refugee community become more self-reliant remains a crucial goal.\u201d\n\n\u201cBangladesh has shown extraordinary generosity in hosting this highly vulnerable population, and we are deeply grateful to our donors who have continued to stay the course. Their sustained support remains a lifeline for refugees,\u201d said Rania Dagash-Kamara, Assistant Executive Director for Partnerships and Innovation at the UN World Food Programme.\n\n\u201cWFP continues to adapt its operations to ensure assistance is delivered equitably, efficiently and effectively, based on real and evolving needs in the camps. But humanitarian assistance is not the end goal. Rohingya refugees want to return home to Myanmar when they can do so safely, voluntarily, and with dignity. We must continue to help create these conditions; we cannot let this crisis be forgotten.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe needs of Rohingya refugees, especially women and girls, remain immense, and the impact of funding cuts is already being felt across every aspect of daily life in the camps,\u201d said Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda, Deputy Executive Director for Normative Support, UN System Coordination and Programme Results.\n\n\u201cWithin the broader challenges of displacement, women and girls face even more risks and barriers that require sustained attention. A gender-responsive, women-centred, comprehensive, and well-resourced response that addresses the overall needs of the refugee population, while recognizing the urgent need for safety, dignity, inclusion, and protection from gender-based violence, is essential to building resilience across the entire community.\u201d\n\nAmid sharp reductions in humanitarian funding and declining development support, Rohingya refugees remain largely reliant on aid. In 2025, some 35% of camp households relied fully on humanitarian food assistance, 42% had access to temporary and unstable income sources, and only 23% earned income through cash-for-work-based humanitarian activities.\n\nLimited economic opportunities and reduced assistance continue to heavily impact Rohingya households\u2014a situation exacerbated for new arrivals and vulnerable groups, including women and girls, persons with disabilities, and older people. As conflict inside Rakhine State continues, hopes for an imminent return to Myanmar are fading. As conditions worsen, more refugees resort to desperate choices, including dangerous and often deadly sea journeys in search of opportunities elsewhere in the region. 2025 was the deadliest year on record for such voyages\u2014just last month, a vessel carrying more than 270 people, many of them refugees, capsized, leaving only nine survivors. Against this backdrop of increasing and overlapping pressures, the appeal focuses assistance on the most critical humanitarian needs. Support must be strategically prioritized across a growing refugee population, and investment in refugee resilience and self-reliance is crucial to preserving dignity and hope and reducing long-term dependence on aid.\n\nThe 2026 JRP update was presented at the UN House in Dhaka by Kelly T. Clements of UNHCR; Rania Dagash-Kamara of WFP; Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda of UN Women; H.E. M. Forhadul Islam, Acting Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh and Secretary for Intergovernmental Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; and Carol Flore-Smereczniak, United Nations Resident Coordinator a.i.\n\nThe appeal is supported by 98 humanitarian partners, including 52 Bangladeshi organizations. The appeal followed a four-day joint high-level donor mission, led by Kelly T. Clements and Rania Dagash-Kamara, which brought together a group of key international donor representatives. The mission included a two-day visit to Rohingya camps and host communities in Cox\u2019s Bazar, with participation from key partners: Australia, Canada, the European Union, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.\n\nThe delegation also engaged with the Government, UN and NGO partners, as well as the broader donor community, in Cox\u2019s Bazar and Dhaka. The humanitarian community reiterates that the most desirable and durable solution to the Rohingya crisis is the voluntary, safe, dignified, and sustainable return of refugees to Myanmar. Until conditions in Myanmar are conducive, continued international solidarity and support remain essential\u2014not only as a humanitarian imperative, but also to uphold human rights, preserve regional stability, and ensure that refugees and their host communities are not abandoned.\n\nFOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: UNHCR: Shari Nijman, Communications Officer nijman@unhcr.org | +880 1894 802 700 UNHCR: Mosharaf Hossain, Communications Associate; hossaimi@unhcr.org | +880 1956475430 WFP: Kun Li, Head of Partnerships, Communication and Reports; kun@wfp.org | +880 1322846137","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":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T08:03:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212821","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Disaster risk financing: Annual Report 2025","body":"The 2025 Disaster Risk Financing (DRF) Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP-supported DRF programmes. It provides deep dives into the DRF programmes in each country, as well as stories from the field, interviews with partners and insights into how WFP promotes the use of pre-arranged financing to help vulnerable populations prepare for, respond to and recover from weather-related disasters.\n\nIn 2025, the humanitarian consequences of extreme weather events were unprecedented. No region was spared, with devastating droughts and heatwaves in the Middle East, countries in Southern Africa reeling from the impacts of multiple tropical cyclones followed by drought, and supercharged hurricanes leaving a path of destruction across Caribbean countries. While the events of 2025 strained both national and humanitarian response systems, WFP continued to scale up its Disaster Risk Financing programmes to ensure that hunger can be prevented before shocks turn into humanitarian emergencies. Recognising the need to financially protect communities from the losses and damages caused by weather-related events and to prevent them from being pushed into hunger and food insecurity WFP continued to invest in readiness through pre-arranged finance.  \n  \nSince 2008, WFP has prioritised advancing financial protection for food insecure communities and strengthening governments\u2019 disaster risk financing and response strategies as a means of building resilience to extreme weather events. In 2025, through its Disaster Risk Financing portfolio WFP protected 4.9 million people across 44 countries with US$380 million in financial protection. In regions affected by drought, floods and tropical cyclones, US$13.2 were transferred to assist 1.1 million people. WFP remains committed to invest in innovative, risk-informed financing\u2014enabling the organization to deliver greater impact, faster responses and more resilient futures in a climate-constrained world.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T08:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212817","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Algeria Country Brief, May 2026","body":"SITUATION OVERVIEW\n\n\u2022 Algeria has been hosting refugees from Western Sahara since 1975 in camps near Tindouf in South-Western Algeria. Located in a harsh and isolated desert environment, opportunities for self-reliance in the camps are limited, forcing people to depend on humanitarian assistance for their survival.\n\n\u2022 According to the 2024 Food Security Assessment, over 80 percent of the Sahrawi camp populations depend on humanitarian food assistance to meet their needs, with 6.5 percent severely food insecure, 57.2 percent moderately food insecure, and 14.6 percent vulnerable to and\/or at risk of food insecurity.\n\n\u2022 WFP has been present in the country since 1986 and currently remains the regular and reliable source of food, including fortified food, in the camps. The WFP Algeria Interim Country Strategic Plan (ICSP) for 2019-2022 was extended to February 2027 pending additional consultations on the new ICSP and continues to address basic food and nutrition needs in camps.","country":[{"id":16,"name":"Algeria","shortname":"Algeria","iso3":"dza","location":{"lat":28.16,"lon":2.63},"primary":true},{"id":253,"name":"Western Sahara","shortname":"Western Sahara","iso3":"esh","location":{"lat":24.2155,"lon":-12.8858}}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T07:58:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212813","score":1,"fields":{"title":"DR Congo: Ebola Outbreak, Ituri Province Situation Report #2, May 19, 2026","body":"**FAST FACTS**   \n  \n\u2022 The World Health Organization has declared the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in the DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.   \n  \n\u2022 As of May 19, the DRC has reported more than 500 suspected cases and at least 130 deaths.   \n  \n\u2022 Uganda has confirmed two cases, including one death.   \n  \n**OUR RESPONSE**   \n  \n\u2022 International Medical Corps teams are in Ituri, the epicenter of the outbreak in DRC, and in Goma (along the Rwanda\/DRC border), where cases have also been reported.   \n  \n\u2022 International Medical Corps also has a Rapid Response Team in Uganda supporting that country's response.   \n  \n\u2022 International Medical Corps teams in South Sudan are coordinating closely with the Ministry of Health to support readiness efforts.\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), signaling that this outbreak has potential global consequences. First confirmed in Ituri province after several weeks of undetected transmission, the outbreak has already spread across key areas of eastern DRC and into Uganda, with two confirmed cases in Kampala. In South Sudan, where geographic proximity and population movements across a shared border with DRC increase the risk of transmission, the Ministry of Health (MoH) has launched preparedness efforts.\n\nAs of May 19, the DRC has reported more than 500 suspected cases and at least 130 deaths. In Uganda, authorities have confirmed two cases in Kampala, including one death.\n\nThe current hotspot remains Ituri province, particularly Rwampara, Mongbwalu, Nyakunde and Bunia, where the outbreak appears to have started as a family cluster, followed by health-facility transmission and then wider community spread. The combination of delayed detection, incomplete contact tracing, mining-related mobility of community members, insecurity and the large number of informal health providers suggests that the actual scale of transmission may be greater than currently detected. The outbreak is especially concerning because it is caused by the Bundibugyo strain, for which there are currently no approved vaccines or therapeutics. Response efforts therefore have to rely heavily on rapid surveillance, contact tracing, testing, infection prevention and control (IPC) measures, supportive clinical care, risk communication and community engagement, and strong cross-border coordination.\n\nThe operating environment in eastern DRC is highly fragile, and health facilities in the affected areas are under severe strain. IPC readiness remains critically low, with assessments showing only 34% coverage at Mongbwalu General Referral Hospital and less than 7% in other facilities. There are serious shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), IPC materials, trained staff, triage capacity, isolation space and sample transport capacity. At least four healthcare worker deaths have been reported in the affected area, underscoring the risk of healthcare-associated transmission as well as the importance of PPE and adherence to protective measures for care providers.\n\nThis outbreak both compounds and emphasizes severe pre-existing humanitarian needs. In Ituri, more than 1.9 million people were already in need of humanitarian assitance before the outbreak, including more than 923,000 internally displaced people. In North Kivu, chronic conflict, displacement and recurrent outbreaks have already left approximately 2.5 million people in North Kivu in need of humanitarian health assistance.","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":"International Medical Corps"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T07:04:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212812","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ukraine Situation - Moldova: Operational Update (April 2026)","body":"As of April 2026, the Republic of Moldova (hereinafter \u2018Moldova\u2019) hosts 139,220 refugees from Ukraine. Refugees remaining in collective accommodation and cash assistance programme are among the most vulnerable and continue to face notable barriers to self-reliance, particularly amid a shrinking humanitarian response and the limited capacity of public systems to absorb additional costs. In April, three Refugee Accommodation Centres (RACs) were closed, reducing the network to approximately 780 residents. Due to constrained access to affordable housing and concerns over the sustainability of rental costs beyond the six-month Cash for Rent (CfR) support period, many affected families opted for lower-cost accommodation solutions, including dormitory and shared housing. A smaller number of families transitioned to alternative accommodation through the CfR programme or relocated to other RACs.","country":[{"id":158,"name":"Moldova","shortname":"Moldova","iso3":"mda","location":{"lat":47.19,"lon":28.57},"primary":true},{"id":241,"name":"Ukraine","shortname":"Ukraine","iso3":"ukr","location":{"lat":49.32,"lon":31.32}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T07:03:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212811","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Hpa-an District Short Update: Burma Army air strikes and shelling caused damage and displacement in T\u2019Nay Hsah Township (September to December 2025)","body":"*This Short Update describes events occurring in T\u2019Nay Hsah (Nabu) Township, Hpa-an District, from September to December 2025. In September 2025, many villagers from Kaw T\u2019Ree Township, Dooplaya District, fled to T\u2019Nay Hsah Township, Hpa-an District, due to shelling by the Burma Army. On September 10th 2025, the Burma Army dropped a bomb on a local villager\u2019s farm in Htee Wah Blaw village tract, causing damage to the plantation field. On November 1st 2025, the Burma Army conducted air strikes on Aa--- village, Htee Hpoh Kyaw village tract, burning four shops and damaging a monastery building, as well as the entrance of a school. On November 13th 2025, the Burma Army carried out an air strike on Ab--- village, Noh Kay village tract, damaging a villager\u2019s house and several rubber plantation trees. That afternoon, the Burma Army conducted another air strike on Ac--- village, Noh Kay village tract, destroying a monastery and damaging five nearby monastery buildings. On December 7th 2025, the Burma Army fired an 81 mm shell into Ad--- village, Htee Wah Blaw village tract, damaging two houses and three motorcycles owned by villagers. As a result of the air strikes and shelling, two village schools were closed, and villagers were forced to flee from their homes.*[*\\[1\\]*](https:\/\/khrg.org\/2026\/05\/25-420447-d1\/hpa-an-district-short-update-burma-army-air-strikes-and-shelling-caused-damage#ftn1)","country":[{"id":165,"name":"Myanmar","shortname":"Myanmar","iso3":"mmr","location":{"lat":21.15,"lon":96.51},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Karen Human Rights Group"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T07:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212810","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Attacks on Health Care in the occupied Palestinian territory (29 April-12 May 2026)","body":"**Since the 08 April 2026 Iran ceasefire, Israeli forces have reportedly increased attacks that directly affected health facilities and access to care across Gaza.** In total, Insecurity Insight identified seven incidents of violence against or obstruction of health in the 16 days between 08 and 24 April 2026, compared to four incidents in the previous 16-day period (23 March-07 April). Reported incidents include Israeli drone strikes and artillery shelling near hospitals, restricting safe access to medical care, as well as gunfire directed at a UN-run health centre. Fuel restrictions and ongoing Israeli military operations also pushed critical services closer to collapse: on 11 April, a hospital was forced to shut down one of its main generators due to fuel shortages, leaving vital departments dependent on lower-capacity backup generators operating only for limited hours.  \n  \nDownload the [**data**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=f7deac9ee9&e=e2fc04a6ae). Updated every Monday and includes information on weapons use, perpetrators and effects. For events descriptions and data enquiries, please **get in touch**. Data is continuously updated and numbers may change if\/ when further information is made available. See [**here**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=365b905594&e=e2fc04a6ae) for methodology.  \n  \nPast briefs: [**15-28 April**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=4cdc5648b5&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**01-14 April**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=6898617db9&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**18-31 March**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=cbc644b27a&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**04-17 March**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=8e9cf98177&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**18 February-03 March**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=abb68a9161&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**04-17 February**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=c60a5ef6b4&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**21 January-03 February**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=2cd537130e&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**07-20 January**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=188ab8f12b&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**24 December 2025-06 January**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=9af8085ea8&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**10-23 December**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=eaf8ae4d98&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**26 November-09 December**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=8420a815e8&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**All**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=ca811f8ca0&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \nSHCC Factsheets (EN): [**2024**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=199f74f3ed&e=e2fc04a6ae)**;** [**2023**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=6e4563d093&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**2022**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=1776b6db76&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**2021**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=44799c6cad&e=e2fc04a6ae). (AR): [**2024**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=f191583572&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**2023**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=d391da1263&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**2022**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=198bf1444b&e=e2fc04a6ae); [**2021**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=0f8495e9d8&e=e2fc04a6ae).  \n  \nHelp support the protection of health care by sharing this resource. Please copy and paste this link: [https:\/\/bit.ly\/29Apr-12May2026OPTHealth](https:\/\/bit.ly\/29Apr-12May2026OPTHealth)  \n  \n**Documented incidents**\n\n**29 April-12 May 2026**\n\nThe publicly reported incidents below are not a complete nor a representative list of all incidents that affected the provision of health care between 29 April-12 May 2026. The incidents below have not been verified through ground investigations. There is a delay in reporting incidents due to our open source verification protocol.  \n  \n**Gaza**  \n**29 April 2026:** Near al Tawam roundabout, North Gaza governorate, a paramedic was killed in an Israeli drone strike. **Source:** [**Quds News Network**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=0c8a004add&e=e2fc04a6ae) **and** [**Quds News Network I**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=7b867a17cb&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**30 April 2026:** In Deir al-Balah city and governorate, the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Hospital were struck by an Israeli drone, injuring six people. **Sources:** [**Quds News Network**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=651eeea962&e=e2fc04a6ae) **and** [**Quds News Network I**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=53906a92cd&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**12 May 2026:** In Beit Lahia city, North Gaza governorate, the area near an MSF team was struck by two shells from an Israeli tank, injuring at least 12 people. The impact occurred around 400m from Al Tayeb Clinic. **Source:** [**MSF East Africa**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=4707d9fc13&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**West Bank and East Jerusalem**  \n**05 May 2026:** In al Khader town, south of Bethlehem governorate, an ambulance was prevented from reaching an injured person by Israeli forces. **Source:** [**WAFA**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=51c92136c2&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**06 May 2026:** In Tulkarem city and governorate, an ambulance transporting an injured young man was obstructed by Israeli forces, who seized the keys of one of the vehicles and broke its windows. **Source:** [**WAFA**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=12f6b6c656&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**08 May 2026:** On the road between Aqraba town and the Za'tara checkpoint, Nablus governorate, an ambulance passage was obstructed by an Israeli settler. **Source:** [**Quds News Network**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=ceac3a054a&e=e2fc04a6ae)  \n  \n**11 May 2026:** In Qalandiya Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem, an ambulance was prevented from reaching a person who was killed by Israeli forces, who opened fire to prevent it from reaching him. **Sources:** [**Quds News Network**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=5d30877935&e=e2fc04a6ae) **and** [**Quds News Network I**](https:\/\/insecurityinsight.us12.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=6ca1f5d2d10a8ab5e9333c51f&id=ff5a6275db&e=e2fc04a6ae)","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Insecurity Insight"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T06:52:45+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212808","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Boletim Di\u00e1rio da C\u00f3lera Data: 19\/05\/2026 [PT]","country":[{"id":164,"name":"Mozambique","shortname":"Mozambique","iso3":"moz","location":{"lat":-18.09,"lon":34.75},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Government of Mozambique"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T06:44:52+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212807","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghanistan: ADI Working Group Meeting (20 May 2026) [Presentation]","body":"**MEETING AGENDA**\n\nOpening and Updates\n\nDiscussion on Barriers Faced by Persons with Disabilities Based on Community Perception Monitoring Findings\n\nDiscussion and Finalization of the ADIWG Workplan\n\nAnnouncement of Shortlisted Organizations for the 3rd ADIWG Co-Chair Role\n\nUpdates on the Afghanistan Community Voices Platform (CVAP) 2025 and 2026\n\nAOB and closing","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Agency Coordinating Body for Afghan Relief and Development"},{"name":"United Nations Population Fund"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T06:39:42+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212806","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Situation Report - Sri Lanka 20th 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":"2026-05-20T06:23:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212803","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Erbil Tripartite Social Dialogue meeting discusses impact of the financial situation and regional crisis on the labour market in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq [EN\/AR]","body":"Erbil, Iraq (14 May 2026) \u2013 Senior representatives of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), the Federal Government of Iraq, employers\u2019 and workers\u2019 organizations, convened on Thursday 14 May 2026 in Erbil to discuss the impact of the current \ufb01nancial situation and regional crisis on the labour market in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.   \nHosted by the Kurdistan Regional Government Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the high-level tripartite social dialogue meeting was organized with technical support from the International Labour Organization and support from the European Union Delegation to Iraq under the European Union-funded Social Protection Programme and the Building an Equitable and Inclusive Transformation (BEIT) Programme.\n\n  \nThe meeting brought together Zakiya Salih, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Kurdistan Regional Government; Dr. Khalid Amjad Al-Saegh, Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Iraq; Radu Eugen Butum, Head of the EU Liaison Office in Erbil, Delegation of the European Union to Iraq; and Igor Bosc, ILO Country Coordinator for Iraq.\n\n  \nParticipants examined the impact of fiscal pressures, delayed salary payments, inflation and regional instability on workers and enterprises in the Kurdistan Region, with particular attention to sectors most affected by the crisis, including tourism, construction, manufacturing and small and medium-sized enterprises.\n\n  \nThe meeting also highlighted the importance of social dialogue as an effective mechanism for bringing together governments, workers and employers to identify practical and consensus-based responses to labour market challenges.\n\n  \n\u201cThe Kurdistan Regional Government established the Social Dialogue in the Kurdistan Region to provide an institutional platform that brings together government, employers and workers to discuss labour market challenges and develop practical, consensus-based solutions,\u201d said Zakiya Salih. \u201cAt a time of increasing economic pressures, social dialogue is essential to protecting workers, supporting enterprises and strengthening social cohesion across the Region.\u201d\n\n  \nKhalid Amjad Al-Saegh reaffirmed the Federal Ministry\u2019s commitment to strengthening cooperation with the Kurdistan Regional Government and social partners to advance labour market governance, social protection and decent work across Iraq.\n\n\u201cThe European Union considers social dialogue as both a principle and a practical tool for managing economic change and ensuring stability,\u201d said Radu Eugen Butum. \u201cToday\u2019s session is an important opportunity to move from discussion to action-oriented recommendations. Sustainable solutions can only be achieved through shared ownership and collective effort.\u201d\n\n  \n\u201cSocial dialogue is one of the most effective tools available to address crises and build consensus around practical solutions that protect workers and support enterprises,\u201d said Igor Bosc. \u201cBy bringing together federal and regional institutions with workers\u2019 and employers\u2019 organizations, Iraq is strengthening its capacity to respond to current challenges while laying the foundations for more inclusive and resilient labour market institutions.\u201d\n\n  \nThe programme featured technical presentations by the KRG Ministry of Planning, the KRG Ministry of Finance and Economy, and the ILO, providing an overview of the macroeconomic and fiscal situation and its implications for the labour market in the Kurdistan Region. The agenda also included a presentation by Wisam Chasib Al Behadili, ILO Technical Officer, on the role of social dialogue in times of crisis.\n\n  \nRepresentatives of workers\u2019 and employers\u2019 organizations shared perspectives on the impact of delayed payments, layoffs and business disruptions, and discussed priority actions to support enterprises, protect jobs and expand social protection coverage, including for workers in the informal economy.\n\n  \nThe meeting concluded with a set of practical recommendations and a shared commitment to continue strengthening tripartite dialogue and institutional cooperation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.\n\n  \nThe meeting contributes to the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework for Iraq, particularly efforts to strengthen inclusive governance, expand social protection and promote decent work for all.\n\n  \nBy fostering dialogue among government, workers and employers, the initiative supports national efforts to build more resilient labour market institutions and advance inclusive and sustainable economic development.\n\n  \nThis activity forms part of the European Union-funded Social Protection Programme and the BEIT Programme, implemented by the ILO in Iraq to strengthen labour market institutions, expand social protection and promote inclusive and equitable economic development.\n\n**To contact**\n\nILO Iraq Communication - Raghda Muhi\n\n+964 790 194 6269 - muhi@ilo.org","country":[{"id":122,"name":"Iraq","shortname":"Iraq","iso3":"irq","location":{"lat":33.05,"lon":43.4},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Labour Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T05:42:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212801","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Freedom in the World 2026: The Growing Shadow of Autocracy","body":"*Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025. But even in this especially challenging moment, there are reasons for optimism.*\n\n## **Key Findings**\n\n**Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025.** A total of 54 countries experienced deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties during the year, while only 35 countries registered improvements. Guinea-Bissau, Tanzania, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, and El Salvador had the largest one-year score declines, while Syria, Sri Lanka, Bolivia, and Gabon recorded the largest gains. Three countries\u2014Bolivia, Fiji, and Malawi\u2014improved from Partly Free to Free status thanks to competitive elections, growing judicial independence, and the strengthening of the rule of law.\n\n**Among countries rated Free, the United States, Bulgaria, and Italy have experienced the year\u2019s largest declines.** In the United States, an escalation in both legislative dysfunction and executive dominance, growing pressure on people\u2019s ability to engage in free expression, and the new administration\u2019s moves to undermine anticorruption safeguards all contributed to the negative score change. The United States lost 3 points on the report\u2019s 100-point scale, bringing its net decline since 2005 to 12 points, more than any other country rated Free during the same period except for Nauru and Bulgaria.\n\n**Although many rights and liberties have been diminished over the last two decades, media freedom, freedom of personal expression, and due process have suffered the heaviest impacts.** Coups, armed conflicts, attacks on democratic institutions by elected leaders, and intensified repression by authoritarian regimes have been the main drivers of deterioration during this 20-year period.\n\n**Since 2005, the group of countries with Partly Free status has shrunk substantially.** Nineteen Partly Free countries have dropped to Not Free, swelling the ranks of the world\u2019s autocracies, which have become more repressive at home and more aggressive abroad. Democratic governments have long worked together to counter the spread of authoritarian rule. But in recent years, European countries have sharply reduced their funding for foreign democracy aid. And in 2025, the US administration abruptly canceled most foreign aid programs, began to disengage from international organizations, and refrained from condemning fraudulent elections\u2014effectively abandoning long-standing principles of its foreign policy. As democracies move further away from their traditional role as defenders of freedom, the world could face a dangerous future led by emboldened autocrats.\n\n**Most democracies remain resilient in the face of daunting challenges.** Despite internal pressures and threats from foreign powers, democracies continue to demonstrate that their domestic political systems are responsive and capable of course correction. Of the 87 countries rated Free in 2005, a total of 76\u2014more than 85 percent\u2014have remained Free throughout the two-decade period of global decline. Moreover, new democracies have repeatedly taken root under difficult circumstances, and aspirations for democracy routinely find popular support in even the most repressive environments.\n\n**Written by**\n\nYana Gorokhovskaia\n\nCathryn Grothe\n\nAmy Slipowitz","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Freedom House"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T04:25:29+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212798","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Tajikistan Market Situation Update (April 2026)","body":"Potatoes (+23.4%) and food basket (+7.9%) are the largest increases above the five-year April average. Potato pressure is accelerating as winter stocks are exhausted ahead of the spring harvest.\n\nGBAO food basket (2,188 TJS) reflects a structural price premium from geographic isolation. DRS at 1,980 TJS is +16.9% above its five-year average and the sharpest regional divergence.\n\nFuel costs rose sharply: petrol +6.8% and diesel +8.1% month-on-month. Both now exceed five-year averages, removing the partial offset reported in March.\n\nThe exchange rate strengthened from 9.63 in March to 9.56 TJS\/USD in April, remaining well below the five-year average (TJS\/USD 11.39).While this supports lower import costs, rising food and fuel prices indicate that supply-side pressures continue to drive market conditions.","country":[{"id":227,"name":"Tajikistan","shortname":"Tajikistan","iso3":"tjk","location":{"lat":38.84,"lon":71.04},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T04:10:20+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212796","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afghan Perspectives on the Future of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)","body":"On March 16, 2026, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 2818 (2026) extending UNAMA\u2019s mandate for three months to allow for a review requested by member states. This review provides an opportunity to take stock of the current UNAMA mandate and propose improvements, including perspectives of the people of Afghanistan.\n\nAgainst this backdrop, the Afghanistan Dialogue and Visioning Process (DVP), a nonpartisan multi-stakeholder initiative housed at the University of Notre Dame\u2019s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, conducted a series of consultation meetings in April 2026. These consultations engaged representatives of different cohorts of DVP participants from both inside and outside of Afghanistan.","country":[{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T04:01:57+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212794","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Gaza : Isra\u00ebl restreint l'aide humanitaire et tue des civils pendant le cessez-le-feu","body":"**Le risque de famine resurgit alors que le Conseil de paix ne remplit pas sa mission**\n\n(Beyrouth, 19 mai 2026) \u2013 Les infrastructures humanitaires qui permettent de maintenir la vie \u00e0 Gaza sont fragilis\u00e9es plus de six mois apr\u00e8s l\u2019accord de cessez-le-feu conclu en octobre 2025, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 aujourd\u2019hui Human Rights Watch. Alors que le Conseil de paix s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter son nouveau rapport semestriel au Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des Nations Unies le 21 mai, les autorit\u00e9s [isra\u00e9liennes](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/fr\/moyen-orient\/afrique-du-nord\/israel\/palestine) sont en train de saper les moyens d\u2019acheminer l\u2019aide humanitaire vitale \u00e0 Gaza. Les attaques isra\u00e9liennes incessantes [ont tu\u00e9](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) au moins 856 Palestiniens et ont bless\u00e9 2 463 autres personnes, selon le minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 de Gaza.\n\nLe Conseil de paix (\u00ab [*Board of Peace* ](https:\/\/boardofpeace.org\/)\u00bb), cr\u00e9\u00e9 en vertu de la [r\u00e9solution 2803](https:\/\/docs.un.org\/fr\/S\/RES\/2803(2025)) du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 de l\u2019ONU, est charg\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9valuer le respect par les parties du Plan global pour mettre fin au conflit \u00e0 Gaza. L\u2019augmentation rapide et la protection de l\u2019aide sont au c\u0153ur de ce plan, au m\u00eame titre que la restauration des infrastructures civiles essentielles. Mais les volumes d\u2019aide restent bien en de\u00e7\u00e0 des niveaux requis et les voies d\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaires vitales ont \u00e9t\u00e9 bloqu\u00e9es \u00e0 plusieurs reprises, selon le Bureau de la coordination des affaires humanitaires des Nations Unies ([OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-17-april-2026)).\n\n\u00ab *Le plan \u00e9tait cens\u00e9 apporter un soulagement. Au lieu de cela, les Palestiniens de Gaza continuent d\u2019avoir faim, n\u2019ont toujours pas acc\u00e8s aux soins m\u00e9dicaux et des civils continuent d\u2019\u00eatre tu\u00e9s* \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 [Adam Coogle](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/fr\/about\/people\/adam-coogle), directeur adjoint de la division Moyen-Orient et Afrique du Nord \u00e0 Human Rights Watch. \u00ab *Quoi que le Conseil de paix dise au Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, voil\u00e0 \u00e0 quoi ressemble la vie \u00e0 Gaza, depuis six mois.* \u00bb\n\nDans son rapport du 15 mai, le Conseil de paix a indiqu\u00e9 que l\u2019aide distribu\u00e9e par les agences des Nations Unies et leurs partenaires avait augment\u00e9 de plus de 70 % au cours de la p\u00e9riode consid\u00e9r\u00e9e par rapport aux niveaux d\u2019avant le cessez-le-feu, et que \u00ab *les besoins alimentaires de base se sont stabilis\u00e9s pour la premi\u00e8re fois depuis 2023* \u00bb. Les chiffres cl\u00e9s du Conseil omettent de mentionner que les volumes d\u2019aide ont diminu\u00e9 depuis d\u00e9but 2026, qu\u2019ils ne sont pas revenus au niveau o\u00f9 ils se trouvaient avant le d\u00e9but de la guerre entre les \u00c9tats-Unis, Isra\u00ebl et l\u2019Iran fin f\u00e9vrier, et qu\u2019ils n\u2019ont jamais atteint le minimum jug\u00e9 n\u00e9cessaire par l\u2019ONU. Quatre agences de l\u2019ONU [ont averti](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/un-agencies-welcome-news-famine-has-been-pushed-back-gaza-strip-warn-fragile-gains-could-be) en d\u00e9cembre 2025 que la famine, repouss\u00e9e quelques semaines plus t\u00f4t gr\u00e2ce au cessez-le-feu, pourrait rapidement resurgir sans un acc\u00e8s et un approvisionnement soutenus.\n\nLe 28 f\u00e9vrier 2026, au d\u00e9but des op\u00e9rations militaires isra\u00e9lo-am\u00e9ricaines contre l\u2019Iran, les autorit\u00e9s isra\u00e9liennes [ont ferm\u00e9 tous les points de passage](https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-closes-crossings-into-gaza-strip-including-humanitarian-aid-workers-2026-02-28\/) vers Gaza. Le nombre de camions entrant dans les semaines suivantes est pass\u00e9 d\u2019une moyenne hebdomadaire de 4 200 \u00e0 seulement 590, selon les chiffres de la coordination militaire am\u00e9ricaine rapport\u00e9s par Haaretz. Le point de passage de Kerem Shalom a partiellement rouvert le 3 mars, suite \u00e0 des pressions am\u00e9ricaines rapport\u00e9es, et Kerem Shalom et Zikim [restent les seuls points d\u2019entr\u00e9e op\u00e9rationnels](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank) pour les biens humanitaires et commerciaux. Au cours des 11 premiers jours de mai, seule la moiti\u00e9 des camions d\u2019aide arrivant d\u2019\u00c9gypte ont \u00e9t\u00e9 [autoris\u00e9s \u00e0 d\u00e9charger](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) aux points de passage contr\u00f4l\u00e9s par Isra\u00ebl.\n\nLes camions commerciaux ont recommenc\u00e9 \u00e0 entrer en plus grand nombre \u00e0 Gaza, avec 789 camions priv\u00e9s ayant franchi la fronti\u00e8re entre le 4 et le 10 mai, [selon l\u2019OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026). Mais le volume total des livraisons reste inf\u00e9rieur aux niveaux d\u2019avant le 28 f\u00e9vrier et bien en de\u00e7\u00e0 des besoins de la population de Gaza.\n\n[Selon le rapport de situation de l\u2019OCHA du 1er mai](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026), les organisations humanitaires ont distribu\u00e9 des colis alimentaires \u00e0 environ 197 000 familles en avril, couvrant 75 % des besoins caloriques quotidiens minimaux, ce qui repr\u00e9sente une am\u00e9lioration par rapport \u00e0 mars, o\u00f9 les rations ne couvraient que la moiti\u00e9 de ces besoins. Mais le nombre total de repas servis quotidiennement a baiss\u00e9 depuis fin mars, certaines organisations humanitaires ayant r\u00e9duit leurs distributions directes de nourriture, a indiqu\u00e9 l\u2019OCHA.\n\nLe Programme alimentaire mondial [a signal\u00e9](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank) que les habitants de Gaza mangeaient moins au cours de la premi\u00e8re quinzaine d\u2019avril qu\u2019en mars, la plupart des familles ne consommant des l\u00e9gumes, des fruits ou des prot\u00e9ines qu\u2019une fois par semaine, voire moins. En raison de la p\u00e9nurie de gaz de cuisine, 68 % de la population br\u00fble d\u00e9sormais des d\u00e9chets pour pr\u00e9parer ses repas, soit une augmentation de 13 % par rapport \u00e0 mars.\n\nAu 5 f\u00e9vrier, aucun des 37 h\u00f4pitaux de Gaza n\u2019\u00e9tait pleinement op\u00e9rationnel, et seuls 19 fonctionnaient m\u00eame partiellement, [selon l\u2019OCHA](https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ocha-humanitarian-situation-update-357-gaza-strip\/). Plus de 43 000 personnes ont subi des blessures qui ont boulevers\u00e9 leur vie, dont un enfant sur quatre, et plus de 50 000 ont besoin de soins de r\u00e9adaptation \u00e0 long terme, [estime](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/occupied-palestinian-territory\/estimating-trauma-rehabilitation-needs-gaza-may-2026-update) l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 (OMS). Aucun centre de r\u00e9\u00e9ducation ne fonctionne pleinement. Les retards isra\u00e9liens dans l\u2019approbation d\u2019\u00e9quipements chirurgicaux sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9s limitent les soins complexes, et au moins 46 % des m\u00e9dicaments essentiels sont en rupture de stock, [selon l\u2019OMS](https:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/images\/stories\/palestine\/Flash_Update_4_March_2026.pdf). Les restrictions isra\u00e9liennes sur l\u2019importation de g\u00e9n\u00e9rateurs, d\u2019huile moteur et de pi\u00e8ces de rechange provoquent des pannes dans les secteurs des soins de sant\u00e9, de l\u2019assainissement, du d\u00e9blaiement des d\u00e9combres et de l\u2019aide humanitaire, [selon l\u2019OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026).\n\nLes rongeurs et les insectes se propagent dans les camps de d\u00e9plac\u00e9s, et les infections cutan\u00e9es ainsi que d\u2019autres maladies sont en augmentation, [a rapport\u00e9 l\u2019OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026). Les agences des Nations Unies et les organisations humanitaires travaillant dans le domaine de l\u2019eau et de l\u2019assainissement [avertissent](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) que de graves p\u00e9nuries d\u2019huile lubrifiante et de pi\u00e8ces de rechange provoquent des pannes de g\u00e9n\u00e9rateurs. \u00c0 Khan Younis, les stations de pompage des eaux us\u00e9es ont cess\u00e9 de fonctionner et les eaux us\u00e9es non trait\u00e9es inondent les rues r\u00e9sidentielles. Dans toute la bande de Gaza, plus de 200 installations d'approvisionnement en eau et d'assainissement fonctionnent avec des g\u00e9n\u00e9rateurs de secours depuis plus de deux ans et demi, la plupart utilisant d\u00e9sormais de l'huile recycl\u00e9e.\n\nLe 6 avril, Al Jazeera [a rapport\u00e9](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/who-employee-killed-several-injured-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-say-medics) que les forces isra\u00e9liennes avaient tir\u00e9 sur un v\u00e9hicule de l\u2019OMS dans l\u2019est de Khan Younis, tuant un sous-traitant et en blessant plusieurs autres. L\u2019OMS [a suspendu](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/who-employee-killed-several-injured-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-say-medics) les \u00e9vacuations m\u00e9dicales via Rafah pendant six jours en r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 cet incident. Fin avril, l\u2019OCHA avait [recens\u00e9](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026) la mort d\u2019au moins 593 travailleurs humanitaires \u00e0 Gaza depuis octobre 2023, dont 8 depuis le cessez-le-feu.\n\nDes frappes a\u00e9riennes ont tu\u00e9 un travailleur humanitaire pr\u00e8s d\u2019un puits d\u2019eau \u00e0 Gaza le 20 avril et un employ\u00e9 de l\u2019ONG Ard El Insan le 26 avril, provoquant dans les deux cas la suspension de services essentiels. [Selon le minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 de Gaza](https:\/\/english.palinfo.com\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/359971\/), plus de 1 400 patients sont morts en attendant leur \u00e9vacuation m\u00e9dicale depuis la prise du point de passage de Rafah en mai 2024, et plus de 18 500 patients, dont 4 000 enfants, [attendent toujours d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9vacu\u00e9s](https:\/\/english.palinfo.com\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/359971\/).\n\nL'ONG Gisha a rapport\u00e9 que les autorit\u00e9s isra\u00e9liennes ont [cat\u00e9goriquement emp\u00each\u00e9 l'acc\u00e8s](https:\/\/gisha.org\/en\/ill-will\/) des patients de Gaza aux h\u00f4pitaux de Cisjordanie, y compris \u00e0 J\u00e9rusalem-Est, et en Isra\u00ebl, depuis octobre 2023, bien qu'elles aient parfois facilit\u00e9 un acc\u00e8s limit\u00e9 aux traitements \u00e0 l'\u00e9tranger, y compris via le territoire isra\u00e9lien depuis juillet 2024.\n\nDepuis le cessez-le-feu, les forces isra\u00e9liennes ont d\u00e9plac\u00e9 la \u00ab ligne jaune \u00bb, la limite convenue du contr\u00f4le territorial isra\u00e9lien \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9rieur de Gaza, vers l\u2019ouest au-del\u00e0 des fronti\u00e8res convenues. Elles ont \u00e9tabli au moins 32 avant-postes \u00e0 l\u2019 t construisent ce qui semble \u00eatre une barri\u00e8re terrestre permanente ou \u00e0 long terme, selon l\u2019analyse d\u2019images satellites [publi\u00e9e par Haaretz](https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/security-aviation\/2026-03-26\/ty-article-magazine\/32-outposts-10-mile-barrier-idf-builds-new-border-in-gaza-heres-how-it-looks\/0000019d-1f59-d9d3-a5df-3f5d54440000). Le Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux droits de l\u2019homme [a recens\u00e9](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-update-355-gaza-strip) au moins 167 Palestiniens tu\u00e9s pr\u00e8s de cette ligne entre le 11 octobre et le 21 janvier, dont 26 enfants et 17 femmes. Le responsable de M\u00e9decins sans fronti\u00e8res \u00e0 Gaza a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 \u00e0 Haaretz que, \u00e0 mesure que la ligne se d\u00e9place vers l\u2019ouest, elle engloutit des points d\u2019eau et des \u00e9tablissements de sant\u00e9.\n\n[Selon l\u2019Office de secours et de travaux des Nations Unies pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s de Palestine dans le Proche-Orient (UNRWA),](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank) 127 de ses installations se trouvent d\u00e9sormais derri\u00e8re la ligne ou dans des zones dont l\u2019acc\u00e8s n\u00e9cessite l\u2019autorisation d\u2019Isra\u00ebl. Depuis mars 2025, les autorit\u00e9s isra\u00e9liennes emp\u00eachent l\u2019agence d\u2019acheminer directement l\u2019aide humanitaire \u00e0 Gaza.\n\nLe [Plan global](https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1972726021196562494) comprend des engagements pris par Isra\u00ebl qui restent non tenus, notamment l\u2019intensification de l\u2019aide humanitaire. Human Rights Watch a [d\u00e9j\u00e0 fait part de ses pr\u00e9occupations](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/indonesia-needs-eyes-wide-open-on-trumps-board-of-peace) concernant d\u2019autres \u00e9l\u00e9ments du plan, notamment la cr\u00e9ation d\u2019un Conseil de paix sans repr\u00e9sentation palestinienne.\n\nLors de la r\u00e9union inaugurale du Conseil de paix en f\u00e9vrier, dix \u00c9tats membres et observateurs du Conseil [se sont engag\u00e9s \u00e0 verser](https:\/\/www.securitycouncilreport.org\/monthly-forecast\/2026-04\/the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-24.php) un total de 17 milliards de dollars pour la reconstruction, alors que l\u2019ONU estime les besoins \u00e0 70 milliards de dollars. En avril, le Conseil avait re\u00e7u moins d\u2019un milliard de dollars sur le montant promis, seuls trois contributeurs ayant vers\u00e9 des fonds, [selon Reuters](https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/board-of-peace-has-received-only-tiny-fraction-of-17-billion-pledged-for-gaza-sources\/).\n\nEn tant que puissance occupante, Isra\u00ebl est tenu, en vertu du droit international humanitaire, de garantir \u00e0 la population civile l\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 la nourriture, \u00e0 l\u2019eau, aux soins m\u00e9dicaux et aux produits de premi\u00e8re n\u00e9cessit\u00e9, et de faciliter l\u2019acheminement rapide et sans entrave de l\u2019aide humanitaire. Affamer des civils comme m\u00e9thode de guerre constitue un crime de guerre au sens du Statut de Rome, qui a institu\u00e9 la Cour p\u00e9nale internationale (CPI). Imposer d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9ment des conditions de vie calcul\u00e9es pour entra\u00eener la destruction physique d\u2019une population constitue un acte de g\u00e9nocide au sens de la Convention sur le g\u00e9nocide.\n\nHuman Rights Watch [a document\u00e9](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/12\/18\/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza) en d\u00e9cembre 2023 qu\u2019Isra\u00ebl utilisait la famine comme arme de guerre \u00e0 Gaza, et [a publi\u00e9](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2024\/12\/19\/extermination-and-acts-genocide\/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza) en d\u00e9cembre 2024 [un rapport](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2024\/12\/19\/extermination-and-acts-genocide\/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza) dans lequel l\u2019organisation a conclu que la privation d\u00e9lib\u00e9r\u00e9e d\u2019eau par Isra\u00ebl \u00e9quivalait \u00e0 un crime contre l\u2019humanit\u00e9 d\u2019extermination et \u00e0 des actes de g\u00e9nocide.\n\nLes autorit\u00e9s isra\u00e9liennes devraient imm\u00e9diatement se conformer \u00e0 leurs obligations en vertu du droit international humanitaire, notamment en garantissant le passage sans entrave de l\u2019aide humanitaire \u00e0 grande \u00e9chelle par tous les points de passage, en levant les restrictions [ill\u00e9gales](https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/summary-advisory-opinion-icj-22oct25\/) impos\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019UNRWA et aux autres organisations humanitaires internationales, et en assurant la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 du personnel humanitaire, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Human Rights Watch.\n\nLes gouvernements devraient suspendre les transferts d\u2019armes au gouvernement isra\u00e9lien, imposer des sanctions cibl\u00e9es aux responsables isra\u00e9liens impliqu\u00e9s de mani\u00e8re cr\u00e9dible dans des violations graves, suspendre les accords commerciaux pr\u00e9f\u00e9rentiels avec Isra\u00ebl et promouvoir la responsabilit\u00e9 en soutenant la Cour internationale de justice et la CPI, notamment en faisant ex\u00e9cuter les mandats d\u2019arr\u00eat de la CPI.\n\n\u00ab *Lorsque le Conseil de paix pr\u00e9sentera son rapport au Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, les \u00c9tats membres devraient comparer ce qu\u2019ils entendent avec ce que les agences de l\u2019ONU rapportent depuis le terrain* \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Adam Coogle. \u00ab *Aucun beau discours ne peut masquer les faits : la livraison d\u2019aide demeure insuffisante, les patients n\u2019ont pas acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des soins m\u00e9dicaux ad\u00e9quats et les points de passage vers Gaza restent limit\u00e9s.* \u00bb\n\n................","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Human Rights Watch"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T03:20:21+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212793","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Gaza: Israel Curbs Aid, Kills Civilians During Ceasefire [EN\/AR]","body":"**Famine Risk Returns as Board of Peace Fails to Deliver**\n\n(Beirut) \u2013 The humanitarian infrastructure sustaining life in Gaza remains in peril over six months after the ceasefire agreement in October 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. As the Board of Peace prepares to brief the United Nations Security Council on May 21 on its newly-issued six-month progress report, [Israeli](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/middle-east\/north-africa\/israel\/palestine) authorities are undermining humanitarian lifelines. Continuing Israeli attacks have [killed](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) at least [856 Palestinians](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) and wounded 2,463 others, according to Gaza Health Ministry.\n\nThe Board of Peace, authorized under UN Security Council Resolution 2803, is tasked with assessing parties\u2019 compliance with the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. Rapidly expanding and safeguarding aid is central to the plan, alongside restoring essential civilian infrastructure. But aid volumes remain far below required levels and critical humanitarian access routes have been repeatedly obstructed, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, ([OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-17-april-2026)).\n\n\u201cThe plan was supposed to bring relief. Instead, Palestinians in Gaza are still hungry, still cannot reach medical care, and civilians are still being killed,\u201d said [Adam Coogle](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/about\/people\/adam-coogle), Middle East deputy director at Human Rights Watch. \u201cWhatever the Board of Peace tells the Security Council, that is what life looks like six months in.\u201d\n\nIn its May 15 report, the Board of Peace said that aid distributed by UN agencies and partners increased by over 70 percent during the reporting period compared to pre-ceasefire levels, and that \"basic food needs have been stabilized for the first time since 2023.\" The Board's headline figures leave out that aid volumes have fallen since early 2026, have not recovered to where they were before the US and Israel-Iran war began in late February, and have never reached the minimum the UN says is needed. Four UN agencies [warned](https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/news\/un-agencies-welcome-news-famine-has-been-pushed-back-gaza-strip-warn-fragile-gains-could-be) in December 2025 that famine, pushed back only weeks earlier through the ceasefire, could rapidly return without sustained access and supplies.\n\nOn February 28, 2026, at the start of Israeli-US military operations against Iran, Israeli authorities [closed all crossings](https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israel-closes-crossings-into-gaza-strip-including-humanitarian-aid-workers-2026-02-28\/) into Gaza. Trucks entering in the following weeks fell from a weekly average of 4,200 to just 590, based on US military coordination figures reported by Haaretz. The Kerem Shalom crossing partially reopened on March 3, following reported US pressure, and Kerem Shalom and Zikim [remain the only operational entry points](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank) for humanitarian and commercial goods. In the first 11 days of May, only half of the aid trucks arriving from Egypt were [allowed to unload](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) at Israeli-controlled crossings.\n\nCommercial trucks have started entering Gaza again in larger numbers, with 789 private trucks crossing between May 4 and 10, [according to OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026). But total deliveries remain below pre-February 28 levels and far short of what Gaza\u2019s population needs.\n\n[According to OCHA\u2019s May 1 situation report](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026), aid groups reached around 197,000 families with food parcels in April, covering 75 percent of minimum daily calorie needs, an improvement from March, when rations covered only half of those needs. But the total number of meals served daily has dropped since late March, with some aid groups scaling back direct food distribution, OCHA said.\n\nThe World Food Programme [reported](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank) that people in Gaza were eating less in the first half of April than in March, with most families eating vegetables, fruit, or protein only once a week or less. With cooking gas in short supply, 68 percent of people are now burning waste to cook their meals, up 13 percent from March.\n\nAs of February 5, none of Gaza\u2019s 37 hospitals were fully operational, and only 19 were even partially functioning, [according to OCHA](https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/ocha-humanitarian-situation-update-357-gaza-strip\/). Over 43,000 people have suffered life-changing injuries, one in four of them children, and more than 50,000 need long-term rehabilitation care, the World Health Organization (WHO) [estimates](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/occupied-palestinian-territory\/estimating-trauma-rehabilitation-needs-gaza-may-2026-update). No rehabilitation facility is fully running. Israeli delays in approving specialized surgical equipment are limiting complex care, and at least 46 percent of essential medicines are out of stock, [according to WHO](https:\/\/www.emro.who.int\/images\/stories\/palestine\/Flash_Update_4_March_2026.pdf). Israeli restrictions on bringing in generators, engine oil, and spare parts are causing breakdowns across health care, sanitation, debris removal, and humanitarian work, [according to OCHA](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026).\n\nRodents and insects are spreading across displacement camps, and skin infections and other diseases are on the rise, [OCHA reported](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026). UN agencies and aid groups working on water and sanitation [warn](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-15-may-2026) that severe shortages of lubricant oil and spare parts are causing generators to fail. In Khan Younis, sewage pumping stations have stopped working and untreated waste is flooding residential streets. Across Gaza, more than 200 water and sanitation facilities have been running on backup generators for over two and a half years, most now on recycled oil.\n\nOn April 6, Al Jazeera [reported](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/who-employee-killed-several-injured-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-say-medics) that Israeli forces fired on a WHO vehicle in eastern Khan Younis, killing a contractor and wounding several others. WHO [suspended](https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/4\/6\/who-employee-killed-several-injured-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-say-medics) medical evacuations via Rafah for six days in response. As of late April, OCHA had [recorded](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-report-1-may-2026) the killing of at least 593 aid workers in Gaza since October 2023, including 8 since the ceasefire.\n\nAirstrikes killed an aid worker at a water well in Gaza City on April 20 and a worker for the NGO Ard El Insan on April 26, both triggering the suspension of essential services. [According to the Gaza Health Ministry](https:\/\/english.palinfo.com\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/359971\/), more than 1,400 patients have died waiting for medical evacuation since the Rafah crossing was seized in May 2024, and over 18,500 patients, including 4,000 children, [still await evacuation](https:\/\/english.palinfo.com\/news\/2026\/03\/23\/359971\/).\n\nThe NGO Gisha has reported how Israeli authorities have [categorically prevented access](https:\/\/gisha.org\/en\/ill-will\/) for Gaza patients in hospitals in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel, since October 2023, though they have at times facilitated limited access to treatment abroad, including through Israeli territory since July 2024.\n\nSince the ceasefire, Israeli forces have moved the \u201cYellow Line,\u201d the agreed limit of Israeli territorial control inside Gaza, westward beyond its agreed boundaries. They have established at least 32 outposts and constructing what appears to be a permanent or long-term ground barrier, according to satellite imagery analysis [published by Haaretz](https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/security-aviation\/2026-03-26\/ty-article-magazine\/32-outposts-10-mile-barrier-idf-builds-new-border-in-gaza-heres-how-it-looks\/0000019d-1f59-d9d3-a5df-3f5d54440000). The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights [documened](https:\/\/www.ochaopt.org\/content\/humanitarian-situation-update-355-gaza-strip) at least 167 Palestinians killed near the line between October 11 and January 21, including 26 children and 17 women. The head of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza told Haaretz that as the line moves west, it is swallowing up water points and health facilities.\n\n[According to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), ](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-213-humanitarian-crisis-gaza-strip-and-occupied-west-bank)127 of its facilities now fall behind the line or in areas requiring Israeli approval for access. Since March 2025, Israeli authorities have blocked the agency from taking humanitarian assistance directly into Gaza.\n\nThe [Comprehensive Plan](https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/1972726021196562494) includes commitments by Israel that remain unfulfilled, including a scale-up of humanitarian assistance. Human Rights Watch has [previously raised concerns](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2026\/03\/26\/indonesia-needs-eyes-wide-open-on-trumps-board-of-peace) about other elements of the plan, including the creation of a Board of Peace with no Palestinian representation.\n\nAt the Board of Peace\u2019s inaugural meeting in February, ten Board member states and observers [pledged](https:\/\/www.securitycouncilreport.org\/monthly-forecast\/2026-04\/the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-24.php) a total of US$17 billion for reconstruction against UN estimates of $70 billion needed. As of April, the Board had received less than $1 billion of the pledged amount, with only three contributors having delivered funds, [according to Reuters](https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/liveblog_entry\/board-of-peace-has-received-only-tiny-fraction-of-17-billion-pledged-for-gaza-sources\/).\n\nIsrael, as the occupying power, is required under international humanitarian law to ensure the civilian population has access to food, water, medical care, and essential supplies, and to facilitate the rapid and unimpeded passage of humanitarian relief. Starving civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime under the Rome Statute, which established the International Criminal Court (ICC). Deliberately imposing conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of a population constitutes an act of genocide under the Genocide Convention.\n\nHuman Rights Watch [documented](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2023\/12\/18\/israel-starvation-used-weapon-war-gaza) in December 2023 that Israel was using starvation as a weapon of war in Gaza, and in December 2024 [published a report](https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2024\/12\/19\/extermination-and-acts-genocide\/israel-deliberately-depriving-palestinians-gaza) in which it found that Israel\u2019s deliberate deprivation of water amounted to the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide.\n\nIsraeli authorities should immediately comply with their obligations under international humanitarian law, including ensuring the unobstructed passage of humanitarian aid at scale through all crossings, lifting [unlawful](https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/summary-advisory-opinion-icj-22oct25\/) restrictions on UNRWA and other international humanitarian organizations, and ensuring the safety of humanitarian personnel, Human Rights Watch said.\n\nGovernments should suspend arms transfers to the Israeli government, impose targeted sanctions on Israeli officials credibly implicated in serious abuses, suspend preferential trade agreements with Israel, and promote accountability by supporting the International Court of Justice and the ICC, including by enforcing the ICC\u2019s arrest warrants.\n\n\u201cWhen the Board of Peace briefs the Security Council, members should weigh what they hear against what UN agencies are reporting from the ground,\u201d Coogle said. \u201cNo spin can hide the fact that aid is not entering at the needed scale, patients do not have access to adequate medical care, and crossings to Gaza remain limited.\u201d","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Human Rights Watch"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T03:16:54+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212791","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Termes de R\u00e9f\u00e9rence de la Recherche : Evaluation territoriale (Area-based Assessment - ABA) et soutien \u00e0 la planification locale dans la sous-pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Adr\u00e9 - TCD2601, Tchad, Mars 2026 V.1","body":"**2. Justification**\n\n**2.1. Contexte et informations g\u00e9n\u00e9rales**\n\nDepuis le 15 avril 2023, le Soudan est ravag\u00e9 par un conflit qui, venant s'ajouter \u00e0 des d\u00e9fis pr\u00e9existants, a plong\u00e9 le pays dans un \u00e9tat de crise humanitaire s\u00e9v\u00e8re, entra\u00een\u00e9e par des d\u00e9placements massifs de population, ainsi que la perturbation des infrastructures essentielles et l'\u00e9rosion des capacit\u00e9s d\u2019absorption des chocs des communaut\u00e9s affect\u00e9es.5 A la date du 17 d\u00e9cembre 2025, le Soudan int\u00e9grait plus de 9 millions de personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes (PDI) \u2013 dont environ 7 millions d\u00e9plac\u00e9es post-avril 2023 \u20136 et 4,5 millions de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et retourn\u00e9s ayant cherch\u00e9 refuge dans des pays voisins.7 Selon l\u2019Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), en septembre 2025, 21,2 millions de soudanais \u2013 soit environ 45% de la population du Pays \u2013 \u00e9taient dans une situation d\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire aigue (Phase 3+ IPC).8 A la m\u00eame p\u00e9riode, la r\u00e9gion du Darfour figurait parmi les zones les plus affect\u00e9es par la crise alimentaire, sur fond de limitations \u00e0 l\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire9 et de fragilit\u00e9s pr\u00e9existantes aliment\u00e9es par la r\u00e9currence de conflits et chocs climatiques.10 La plupart de son territoire se trouvant dans une situation alimentaire d\u2019urgence (Phase 4 IPC), des poches de famine ont \u00e9t\u00e9 relev\u00e9es dans les villes d\u2019El Fasher (Etat du Nord Darfour) et Kadugli (Etat du Sud Kordofan).11\n\nPartageant plus de 1 000 km de fronti\u00e8re avec la r\u00e9gion du Darfour le long de son flanc oriental, le Tchad fait partie des pays qui enregistrent actuellement d'importants afflux de populations en mouvement forc\u00e9 depuis le Soudan. A l\u2019instar des \u00e9v\u00e8nements cons\u00e9cutifs \u00e0 la crise au Darfour \u00e9clat\u00e9e en 2003, les exodes massifs actuels de populations se produisent le long d\u2019une fronti\u00e8re commune qui a historiquement \u00e9t\u00e9 caract\u00e9ris\u00e9e par des dynamiques d\u2019interaction et interd\u00e9pendance. En dehors des d\u00e9placements forc\u00e9s d\u2019un Pays vers l\u2019autre en p\u00e9riode de crise ou \u00e0 la suite de chocs climatiques, environnementaux ou s\u00e9curitaires,12 la g\u00e9ographie humaine de l\u2019espace frontalier est depuis longtemps fa\u00e7onn\u00e9e par des liens communautaires et familiaux reliant les populations d\u2019un c\u00f4t\u00e9 et de l\u2019autre de la fronti\u00e8re.13 Ces liens communautaires et familiaux ont \u00e0 plusieurs reprises jou\u00e9 un r\u00f4le important dans la facilitation de l\u2019accueil et de l\u2019installation des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s soudanais \u00e0 l\u2019est du Tchad.14 De plus, un historique de relations commerciales transfrontali\u00e8res a permis la constitution d\u2019un espace \u00e9conomique commun et soutenu les moyens de subsistance des populations vivant d\u2019une part ou de l\u2019autre de la fronti\u00e8re.15 A cet \u00e9gard, d\u2019apr\u00e8s l\u2019Initiative Conjointe de Suivi des March\u00e9s de REACH au Soudan, en d\u00e9cembre 2025 le Tchad demeure le lieu d\u2019origine pour l'approvisionnement alimentaire et non alimentaire de plusieurs march\u00e9s de la r\u00e9gion du Darfour.16\n\nA la date du 08 f\u00e9vrier 2026, sur un total d\u2019environ 1,5 million de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s recens\u00e9s dans le pays,17 912 317 (dont 887 110 enregistr\u00e9s) sont des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s soudanais arriv\u00e9s dans les provinces orientales de Ouaddai, Wadi Fira, Sila et Ennedi Est \u00e0 partir d\u2019avril 2023.18 La crise actuelle au Soudan a \u00e9galement caus\u00e9 l\u2019exode d\u2019une estimation de 355 903 retourn\u00e9s tchadiens (dont 248 730 enregistr\u00e9s) vers les provinces de Ouaddai, Wadi Fira et Sila depuis avril 2023.19 Confront\u00e9 \u00e0 cette situation, le Gouvernement du Tchad, \u00e0 travers le Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019Action Sociale et de l\u2019Action Humanitaire (MASSAH) et la Commission Nationale d\u2019Accueil et de R\u00e9insertion des R\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et des Rapatri\u00e9s (CNARR), a \u00e9labor\u00e9 une strat\u00e9gie de r\u00e9ponse int\u00e9gr\u00e9e, envisageant la prise en compte \u00e0 la fois des besoins humanitaires des populations affect\u00e9es ainsi que des priorit\u00e9s de d\u00e9veloppement, de coh\u00e9sion sociale et de s\u00e9curisation des fronti\u00e8res. Se basant sur une approche synergique avec les agences et les organisations op\u00e9rant dans les domaines humanitaire et de rel\u00e8vement, cette strat\u00e9gie int\u00e8gre parmi ses composantes : (i) une approche dans les camps ax\u00e9e sur la relocalisation de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et retourn\u00e9s vers des camps am\u00e9nag\u00e9s fournissant des services humanitaires essentiels, ayant permis la relocalisation de 607 391 personnes relocalis\u00e9es dans 26 camps am\u00e9nag\u00e9s \u00e0 la date du 08 f\u00e9vrier 202620 ; (ii) une approche hors camps compl\u00e9mentaire et territoriale, bas\u00e9e sur l\u2019int\u00e9gration des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s dans le tissu socio-\u00e9conomique tchadien pour en soutenir le r\u00f4le de vecteur de d\u00e9veloppement local.21 L'ampleur des d\u00e9placements courants \u00e9tant \u00e9troitement li\u00e9e \u00e0 la dynamique du conflit en cours au Soudan, une nouvelle augmentation importante des arriv\u00e9es a \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9e en novembre 2025 (+57% par rapport au mois pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent), en cons\u00e9quence de la prise d'El Fasher par les Forces de Soutien Rapide (FSR) \u00e0 la fin du mois d'octobre 2025.22 Face \u00e0 cet \u00e9v\u00e8nement, en d\u00e9but novembre 2025 le gouvernement du Tchad a actualis\u00e9 le plan de contingence pour la r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 l\u2019afflux de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et de retourn\u00e9s en provenance du Soudan, sur la base de la pr\u00e9vision d\u2019environ 120 000 nouvelles arriv\u00e9es (90 000 r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et 30 000 retourn\u00e9s) d\u2019ici la fin de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 2025.23\n\nLes arrivants se caract\u00e9risent par des profils complexes de besoins et vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s multisectorielles exacerb\u00e9s par la nature prolong\u00e9e de la crise soudanaise. Leur composition d\u00e9mographique montre une pr\u00e9valence de femmes et enfants, qui constituent 86% des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s enregistr\u00e9s depuis avril 2023,24 ainsi que 55% (femmes) et 68% (enfants) respectivement des retourn\u00e9s enregistr\u00e9s entre mai 2023 et d\u00e9cembre 2025 dans les provinces de Ouaddai, Wadi Fira et Sila.25 L'analyse comparative du Projet 21 entre avril 2023-mars 2024 et avril 2024-mars 2025 indique une expansion de la proportion de m\u00e9nages arrivant au Tchad sans documentation civile (47% en 2023-2024 et 54% en 2024-2025), ainsi qu'une forte r\u00e9duction du pourcentage d'enfants (de 82% en 2023-2024 \u00e0 16% en 2024-2025) fr\u00e9quentant l'\u00e9cole au Soudan avant de se d\u00e9placer vers le Tchad, ce qui sugg\u00e8re la d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration ult\u00e9rieure des conditions \u00e9ducatives dans leur pays d'origine.26 La m\u00eame analyse sugg\u00e8re l\u2019\u00e9mergence de facteurs tels que le manque d'acc\u00e8s aux opportunit\u00e9s \u00e9conomiques et aux services de base parmi les raisons qui poussent les m\u00e9nages \u00e0 quitter le Soudan, bien que le conflit arm\u00e9 demeure la raison principale (89% de m\u00e9nages en 2023-2024, 46% en 2024-2025).27 La recrudescence des besoins intervient dans un contexte marqu\u00e9 par la faible mobilisation de ressources financi\u00e8res : \u00e0 la date du 31 d\u00e9cembre 2025, la r\u00e9ponse aux effets de la crise soudanaise au Tchad telle que planifi\u00e9e dans le Plan r\u00e9gional de r\u00e9ponse pour les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s de la crise soudanaise au Tchad (RRP 2025, Chapitre d\u00e9di\u00e9 au Tchad) avait \u00e9t\u00e9 financ\u00e9 \u00e0 la hauteur d\u2019environ 24% (170,7 millions USD sur le total des 701,27 millions USD requis).28\n\nSimilairement, l\u2019\u00e9valuation multisectorielle men\u00e9e par l\u2019OIM dans les provinces de Wadi Fira, Ouaddai et Sila en fin 2025 a mis en \u00e9vidence la pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 des conditions de vie de la plupart des retourn\u00e9s tchadiens, notamment en lien avec le manque d\u2019acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l\u2019eau potable, aux installations d\u2019assainissement, aux services sanitaires et \u00e0 des logements ad\u00e9quats.29 En m\u00eame temps, les provinces de l\u2019est du Tchad accueillant des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s soudanais et des retourn\u00e9s tchadiens sont marqu\u00e9es par des vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9s structurelles et des formes de pauvret\u00e9 multidimensionnelle. D\u2019apr\u00e8s le rapport de 2024 sur les perspectives \u00e9conomiques r\u00e9dig\u00e9 par la Banque Mondiale, la pauvret\u00e9 au sein des communaut\u00e9s d'accueil est plus \u00e9lev\u00e9e qu'au niveau national et proche de la situation des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s.30 Environ 80% des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et des communaut\u00e9s d\u2019accueil r\u00e9sidantes autour des camps \u00e9taient jug\u00e9s comme n\u2019\u00e9tant pas en mesure de subvenir \u00e0 leurs besoins alimentaires et non alimentaires de base, alors que la moyenne nationale s\u2019\u00e9levait \u00e0 42% des tchadiens en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral.31\n\nParmi les zones affect\u00e9es par les d\u00e9placements depuis le Soudan, la province du Ouaddai ressort comme l\u2019unit\u00e9 territoriale qui abrite le plus grand nombre de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s (521 450 individus, soit 57% du total des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s d\u00e9nombr\u00e9s depuis avril 2023),32 ainsi que plus d\u2019un tiers du total des retourn\u00e9s tchadiens estim\u00e9s avoir travers\u00e9 la fronti\u00e8re depuis avril 2023.33 Ici \u2013 comme dans d\u2019autres zones de l\u2019est du Tchad \u2013 les effets de la crise en cours au Soudan se superposent \u00e0 des d\u00e9fis pr\u00e9existants, notamment sur le plan nutritionnel et alimentaire. Si l\u2019enqu\u00eate SMART (2022) faisait part d\u2019une pr\u00e9valence de la malnutrition aig\u00fce globale (MAG) au Ouaddai de 12,1% sup\u00e9rieure au seuil \u00e9lev\u00e9 (10%) d\u00e9fini par l\u2019OMS,34 le cycle SMART 2024 a relev\u00e9 une pr\u00e9valence de 17,5% de la MAG, sup\u00e9rieure au seuil tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9 (15%) fix\u00e9 par l\u2019OMS, ainsi qu\u2019un taux de malnutrition aig\u00fce s\u00e9v\u00e8re (MAS) de 3,7%, sup\u00e9rieur au seuil d\u2019urgence humanitaire de 2%.35 Parall\u00e8lement, le dernier cycle du CH (novembre 2025, p\u00e9riode post-r\u00e9colte) fait part d\u2019une situation de pression alimentaire coupl\u00e9e \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sence de 199 782 personnes dans un \u00e9tat d\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 alimentaire aigue (Phase 3+), soit environ 16% du total de la population de la province.36\n\nA une \u00e9chelle territoriale plus granulaire, la sous-pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Adr\u00e9 \u2013 situ\u00e9e dans le d\u00e9partement d\u2019Assoungha et frontali\u00e8re avec le Soudan \u2013 a \u00e9t\u00e9, depuis le d\u00e9but de la crise soudanienne en cours, l\u2019une des zones les plus affect\u00e9es par les afflux de populations en mouvement forc\u00e9. Les chiffres publi\u00e9s par l\u2019UNHCR en f\u00e9vrier 2026 font part de la pr\u00e9sence de 235 104 enregistr\u00e9s \u00e0 Adr\u00e9.37 A l\u2019\u00e9chelle du Site d\u2019Accueil Temporaire (SAT), le dernier profilage (octobre 2025) effectu\u00e9 par Acted \u00e9voque des conditions de pr\u00e9carit\u00e9 multiforme qui se caract\u00e9risent notamment par la pr\u00e9sence r\u00e9pandue de m\u00e9nages r\u00e9sidant dans des logements en mauvais \u00e9tat et d'enfants hors du syst\u00e8me scolaire, dans un contexte marqu\u00e9 par une permanence sur le site de longue dur\u00e9e (depuis 2023) pour de nombreux individus qu\u2019y sont install\u00e9s, malgr\u00e9 sa vocation de lieu d\u2019accueil temporaire.38 La sous-pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Adr\u00e9 accueille \u00e9galement le plus grand nombre de retourn\u00e9s (97 440 individus) par rapport \u00e0 toutes les autres sous-pr\u00e9fectures des provinces de Wadi Fira, Ouaddai et Sila.39 Si la r\u00e9cente recrudescence du conflit dans le Nord Darfour a d\u00e9clench\u00e9 des vagues importantes de populations en mouvement forc\u00e9 surtout vers les provinces de l\u2019Ennedi Est et du Wadi Fira, le point d\u2019entr\u00e9e d\u2019Adr\u00e9Adikong40 demeure sollicit\u00e9 de mani\u00e8re continue par des nouvelles arriv\u00e9es. En particulier, 9% (1 416 individus) du total des afflux de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s enregistr\u00e9s depuis l\u2019attaque \u00e0 El Fasher de fin octobre 2025 (15 912 individus) ont franchi la fronti\u00e8re \u00e0 travers ce point d\u2019entr\u00e9e,41 o\u00f9 une hausse importante (+79%) des afflux de retourn\u00e9s a \u00e9t\u00e9 relev\u00e9e entre octobre (1 043 individus) et novembre 2025 (1 863 individus).42\n\nLa sous-pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Adr\u00e9 \u2013 et la zone urbaine de la Ville d\u2019Adr\u00e9 en particulier \u2013 constituent un hub commercial au sein du d\u00e9partement d\u2019Assoungha43 et un p\u00f4le d\u2019attraction pour les chercheurs d\u2019emploi en provenance notamment des zones rurales de proximit\u00e9.44 Alors que les derniers chiffres d\u00e9mographiques concernant la sous-pr\u00e9fecture d\u2019Adr\u00e9 faisaient part de 40 366 habitants en 2009,45 l\u2019accroissement d\u00e9mographique engendr\u00e9 par les arriv\u00e9es massifs de populations en mouvement forc\u00e9 depuis avril 2023 s\u2019est accompagn\u00e9 par une pression accrue soudaine sur les services, infrastructures et ressources naturelles existantes qui pose des d\u00e9fis consid\u00e9rables \u00e0 la qualit\u00e9 des relations sociales \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle territoriale.46","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":"IMPACT Initiatives"},{"name":"REACH Initiative"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T03:13:29+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212790","score":1,"fields":{"title":"La situaci\u00f3n en Sud\u00e1n del Sur - Informe del Secretario General (S\/2026\/316)","body":"**I. Introducci\u00f3n**\n\n1\\. El presente informe se ha elaborado con arreglo a lo previsto en la resoluci\u00f3n 2779 (2025) del Consejo de Seguridad y abarca los acontecimientos ocurridos en el plano pol\u00edtico y en materia de seguridad, la situaci\u00f3n humanitaria y de los derechos humanos y los avances realizados en el cumplimiento del mandato de la Misi\u00f3n de las Naciones Unidas en Sud\u00e1n del Sur (UNMISS) durante el per\u00edodo comprendido entre el 16 de enero y el 15 de abril de 2026.","country":[{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Security Council"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T02:40:16+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212789","score":1,"fields":{"title":"La situation au Soudan du Sud - Rapport du Secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral (S\/2026\/316)","body":"**I. Introduction**\n\n1\\. Le pr\u00e9sent rapport est pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 en application de la r\u00e9solution 2779 (2025) du Conseil de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 et porte sur les faits nouveaux intervenus sur le plan politique et sur le plan de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9, ainsi que sur la situation humanitaire et la situation des droits humains. Il dresse \u00e9galement le bilan des progr\u00e8s accomplis dans l\u2019ex\u00e9cution du mandat de la Mission des Nations Unies au Soudan du Sud (MINUSS) entre le 16 janvier et le 15 avril 2026.","country":[{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Security Council"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T02:37:59+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212788","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNRWA Situation Report #10 on the Lebanon Emergency Response 2026 (7 May 2026) [EN\/AR]","body":"All information valid for 29 April - 5 May 2026\n\n**Key Points**\n\n- A 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon came into effect at midnight on 16 April. On 23 April, US President Donald Trump announced that the ceasefire would be extended for an additional three weeks, following a second high-level trilateral meeting between representatives of Israel, the United States and Lebanon.\n- The humanitarian situation in Lebanon remains fragile and unpredictable, with a continued risk of conflict escalation and military operations in the south of the country.\n- UNRWA launched its emergency response in Lebanon on 4 March. As of 21 April, it operates two emergency shelters[\\[1\\]](https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/resources\/reports\/unrwa-situation-report-10-lebanon-emergency-response-2026#note): Siblin Training Centre (STC) in Saida Area and Battir School in Nahr el-Bared Camp in northern Lebanon.\n- Renewed evacuation orders were issued by the Israeli military between 30 April and 1 May for 10 villages in southern Lebanon and Nabatieh District north of the Litani River area.\n- By 5 May, a total of 1,132 displaced people (328 families) were registered in the two UNRWA emergency shelters. This represents an increase from 951 people recorded in the previous week and follows the issuance of evacuation orders during the period.\n- Between 29 April and 5 May, no security incidents affecting on-duty UNRWA personnel or facilities were reported.","country":[{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89},"primary":true},{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332}},{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51}}],"source":[{"name":"UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T02:34:48+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212787","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNRWA Situation Report #221 on the Humanitarian Crisis in the Gaza Strip and the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem [EN\/AR]","body":"**Highlights**\n\nThe Gaza Strip\n\n- Israeli forces continued to maintain a high level of activity, primarily in eastern Gaza City and Khan Younis, resulting in civilian casualties and damage to critical facilities. [OHCHR](https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/occupied-palestinian-territory\/palestine-human-rights-bulletin-reporting-period-1-april-30-april-2026-enar) reported that in April 2026 alone, at least 111 Palestinians, including at least 18 children and 7 women, were killed in attacks by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, amid continuing airstrikes, artillery and naval shelling, drone attacks, and gunfire.\n- The so-called \u201cYellow Line\u201d marking the Israeli-militarised zone in the Gaza Strip was significantly extended eastward in Gaza City and Khan Younis, with reports of tank advances by Israeli forces in both areas. As a result of the expansion, five UNRWA installations are now in proximity of the militarised zone, including two schools-turned-shelters hosting displaced families. The expansion of the militarised area is expected to affect humanitarian interventions and further squeeze the population, increasing the risks posed by violence in this area.\n- As [UNRWA's Director of Health](https:\/\/x.com\/UNRWA\/status\/2052297601307852830) warned that \u201cthe current spread of rodents and infections is not merely a health issue, but a clear sign of Gaza\u2019s vulnerability and near collapse of its health system.\u201d The spread of disease-carrying rodents and insects is driving a growing public health crisis and undermining already precarious living conditions. Rodents are heavily infesting emergency shelters, displacement sites, and tents, biting people and contaminating living spaces.","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T02:30:49+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212785","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Mayon Volcano Summary of 24Hr Observation 20 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":"2026-05-20T02:20:23+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212784","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Situation in South Sudan - Report of the Secretary-General (S\/2026\/316) [EN\/AR\/RU\/ZH]","body":"**I. Introduction**\n\n1\\. The present report is submitted pursuant to Security Council resolution 2779 (2025) and covers political and security developments, the humanitarian and human rights situation and progress towards implementation of the mandate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) between 16 January and 15 April 2026.\n\n**II. Political and economic developments**\n\n2\\. Unilateral actions by the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) have continued, with implications for the composition of the Government and the functioning of inclusive decision-making processes in South Sudan. Political fragmentation has directly contributed to military escalation, increasingly hostile rhetoric and greater assertiveness among armed actors. The persistent lack of political will to pursue inclusive dialogue, combined with a focus on elections at the expense of fully implementing the key benchmarks of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan \u2013 including unification of forces \u2013 have created an atmosphere that increasingly favours one signatory party. The Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity has yet to respond clearly to regional and international proposals for inter-signatory dialogue.\n\n3\\. The situation in Jonglei State deteriorated in January with increased mobilization and military offensive operations by the South Sudan People\u2019s Defence Forces and the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Army in Opposition (SPLA\u2011IO). On 25 January, the South Sudan People\u2019s Defence Forces issued a 48\u2011hour ultimatum demanding civilians, humanitarian actors and UNMISS personnel vacate areas controlled by SPLA\u2011IO.\n\n4\\. On 23 January, the Peace and Security Council of the African Union expressed deep concern over the slow implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and reported cases of ceasefire violations. The Peace and Security Council underlined the need to keep the fragile peace process alive by amicably resolving the current political and security impasse, and called on the parties to cease unilateral actions and all forms of hostilities, while reinvigorating their commitment to political inclusion. The Council emphasized that priority should be given to the organization of elections by December 2026 and stressed the need to uphold the supremacy of the Revitalized Agreement and adhere strictly to its provisions.\n\n5\\. On 24 January, ahead of military operations in Jonglei State, Assistant Chief of Defense Forces for Mobilization and Disarmament Gen. Johnson Olony reportedly stated that no one, including civilians, should be spared, heightening fears of ethnically targeted violence. UNMISS, human rights actors, civil society and political opposition actors condemned the inflammatory nature of this statement.\n\n6\\. On 27 January, the Minister of Information, Ateny Wek, stated that the South Sudan People\u2019s Defence Forces deployment to northern Jonglei was a defensive measure aimed at halting armed elements\u2019 advances. He further indicated that Olony\u2019s remarks did not reflect government policy. On the same day, the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement\/Army in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO) responded that their forces acted in self-defense and denied any intentions to threaten area controlled by the Government.\n\n7\\. On 23 February, the President of South Sudan, Selva Kiir removed the Minister of Finance, Barnaba Bak Chol, Commissioner General of the Revenue Authority, William Anyoul, and the Presidential Envoy to the Middle East, Monica Achol. Mr. Bak Chol was arrested on 27 February while reportedly attempting to cross the border into Uganda, following which the Government initiated resource management investigations.\n\n8\\. Also on 23 February, the National Elections Commission established an Election Dispute Resolution Committee following the announcement that the Commission intended to use the 2010 constituency boundaries.\n\n9\\. On 26 February, the President removed Vice-President Josephine Lagu as lead of the Service Cluster, reappointing the Agriculture Minister, Hussein Abdelbagi, leader of a South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) splinter faction.\n\n10\\. On 3 March, an Inter-Party Committee, appointed by the President and headed by the Presidential Advisor for National Security Affairs, Tut Gatluak, convened to outline its mandate and discuss the way forward for elections.\n\n11\\. Also on 3 March, the National Elections Commission stated that voter registration, electoral campaigns and poll preparations could be achieved within six months, depending on political will, legal clarity and resource allocation.\n\n12\\. On 6 March, the South Sudan People\u2019s Defence Forces ordered UNMISS to close and withdraw from its base in Akobo, Jonglei State within 72 hours, additionally calling upon United Nations agencies, non-governmental organizations and civilians to relocate.\n\n13\\. On 9 March, the President appointed Daniel Akot Akot, from the SPLM-IO faction under Stephen Par Kuol, as Speaker of the Council of States, replacing Deng Deng Akon from the mainstream SPLM\/A-IO.\n\n14\\. On 11 March, the President removed SPLM\/A-IO deputy governors in Lakes, Unity and Eastern Equatoria States which the SPLM\/A-IO rejected as violations of the Revitalized Agreement.\n\n15\\. Also on 11 March, the Chairperson of the National Elections Commission, Abednego Akok Kacoul, told the media that the Commission had only received 4 per cent of its requested budget. On 12 March, in a meeting with the President, the Chairperson said the Commission would announce an election date and launch civic education and voter registration in June.\n\n16\\. On 13 March, the Revitalized Transitional National Legislative Assembly approved the budget for the 2025\/26 fiscal year, with a total expenditure of South Sudan pounds (SSP) 8.58 trillion ($1.9 billion) against projected revenues of SSP 7 trillion ($1.56 billion), leaving a deficit of SSP 1.57 trillion ($350 million). Oil accounts for about 76 per cent of the projected revenue.\n\n17\\. On 13 March, the South Sudan Council of Churches expressed concerns regarding the security situation and called for a ceasefire and the release of the First Vice-President, Riek Machar. On 17 March, the Office of the President said that ongoing military operations were necessary to restore stability and that judicial processes must be independent from political or religious influence.\n\n18\\. On 7 April, the SPLM announced the removal of the speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly Jemma Nunu Kumba, replacing her with Joseph Ngere Paciko.\n\n19\\. During the reporting period, the President also changed the Unity State Governor, the Administrator of the Ruweng Administrative Area, the Minister of Health, the Deputy Minister of Finance and Planning and the Deputy Minister of Cabinet Affairs; and made major reshuffles in the governments of Warrap, Central Equatoria and Western Equatoria States, dismissing and appointing ministers, advisers, heads of commissions and several county commissioners.\n\n**Regional engagements and developments**\n\n20\\. On 29 January, Kenya announced the launch of a four\u2011week dialogue under the auspices of the Tumaini Initiative, with the support of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, with a broader mandate that would include the SPLM\/A\u2011IO.\n\n21\\. On 15 February, the President participated in the meeting of the African Union High-level Ad Hoc Committee for South Sudan on the sidelines of the thirty-ninth ordinary session of the African Union Summit, held in Addis Ababa. He emphasized the need to avoid undue interference in the internal affairs of South Sudan.\n\n22\\. The resulting declaration from the High-level Ad Hoc Committee meeting called for an immediate ceasefire; consideration of the release of political prisoners, including the First Vice-President; support for elections; and the appointment of a former Head-of-State as the African Union High Representative to oversee the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement and harmonize various peace tracks. The declaration also discouraged further extensions of the transition.\n\n23\\. From 14 to 22 March 2026, the President visited South Africa to follow up on the declaration of the High-level Ad Hoc Committee and strengthen bilateral relations. He met with the President of South Arica, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the Deputy President, Paul Mashatile. According to President\u2019s press office, the Government of South Africa pledged electoral support.\n\n24\\. On 25 March, the Africa Union appointed the former President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, as its High Representative for the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea.","country":[{"id":8657,"name":"South Sudan","shortname":"South Sudan","iso3":"ssd","location":{"lat":6.9,"lon":30.5},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Security Council"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T01:50:40+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212783","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the Emergency Committee on Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda \u2013 19 May 2026","body":"Chair, Professor Lucille Blumberg,\n\nMembers of the Emergency Committee, dear colleagues and friends,\n\nThank you all for your commitment to this committee, at short notice.\n\nI would also like to thank the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda who are joining us today.\n\nEarly on Sunday, I declared a public health emergency of international concern over an epidemic of Ebola disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.\n\nThis is the first time a Director-General has declared a PHEIC before convening an Emergency Committee.\n\nI did not do this lightly.\n\nI did it in accordance with Article 12 of the International Health Regulations, after consulting the Ministers of Health of both countries, and because in our view, the scale and speed of the epidemic demanded urgent action.\n\nSo far, 30 cases have been confirmed in the DRC, from the northeastern province of Ituri.\n\nUganda has also informed WHO of two confirmed cases in the capital Kampala, including one death, among two individuals who travelled from DRC.\n\nAn American national has also been confirmed positive, and been transferred to Germany.\n\nThere are several factors that warrant serious concern about the potential for further spread and further deaths.\n\nFirst, beyond the confirmed cases, there are more than 500 suspected cases and 130 suspected deaths.\n\nThese numbers will change as field operations are scaling up, including surveillance, contact tracing, laboratory testing and clinical care.\n\nSecond, cases have been reported in urban areas, including Kampala, the city of Goma in the DRC, and Bunia, which is a big city.\n\nThird, deaths have been reported among health workers, indicating healthcare-associated transmission.\n\nFourth, there is significant population movement in the area.\n\nThe province of Ituri is highly insecure, as you may know. Conflict has intensified since late 2025, and fighting has escalated significantly over the past two months, resulting in civilian deaths.\n\nOver 100 000 people have been newly displaced, and in Ebola outbreaks, you know what displacement means.\n\nThe area is also a mining zone, with high levels of population movement that increase the risk of further spread.\n\nAnd fifth, this epidemic is caused by Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola virus for which there are no vaccines or therapeutics.\n\nIn light of all these risks, we decided it was urgent to act immediately to prevent more deaths and mobilise an effective and international response.\n\nI thank the Government of Uganda for postponing the annual Martyrs\u2019 Day celebrations, which can attract up to two million people, because of the risk posed by the epidemic.\n\nWHO has a team on the ground supporting national authorities to respond. We have deployed people, supplies, equipment and funds.\n\nTo support our response, I have approved an additional US$ 3.4 million from the Contingency Fund for Emergencies, bringing the total to US$ 3.9 million dollars.\n\nOnce again, thank you for committing your time and expertise. I look forward to your advice.\n\nI thank you.","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":"2026-05-20T01:40:13+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212782","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Dos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s: renovaci\u00f3n del hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja en Rafah","body":"**El hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja ha sido crucial para la vida de las familias en Gaza. Dos a\u00f1os despu\u00e9s, esta renovaci\u00f3n le permite seguir prestando servicios m\u00e9dicos vitales.**\n\nEl hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja en Rafah es fruto de una asociaci\u00f3n entre el Comit\u00e9 Internacional de la Cruz Roja (CICR), la Media Luna Roja Palestina (MLRP) y diecis\u00e9is Sociedades de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja de todo el mundo. Abri\u00f3 sus puertas en mayo de 2024 como un hospital de campa\u00f1a con 60 camas para responder a las abrumadoras necesidades de asistencia m\u00e9dica de los palestinos en Gaza. Ofrece servicios de cirug\u00eda, medicina, pediatr\u00eda y obstetricia, as\u00ed como otros medios de apoyo cl\u00ednico.\n\n## Dos a\u00f1os de asistencia m\u00e9dica\n\nDurante los \u00faltimos dos a\u00f1os, el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja ha mantenido una presencia constante en el fragmentado panorama sanitario de Gaza. Ha funcionado como centro principal para la atenci\u00f3n de v\u00edctimas en masa durante per\u00edodos de hostilidades intensas, y como centro de atenci\u00f3n primaria de la salud para los sufrimientos silenciosos y constantes, as\u00ed como para las necesidades de salud cr\u00f3nicas y comunes que persisten. Desde la atenci\u00f3n de pacientes con heridas por armas hasta los cuidados obst\u00e9tricos y ginecol\u00f3gicos oportunos, el hospital de campa\u00f1a ha ofrecido momentos de alivio a miles de personas que necesitan asistencia de salud en Gaza.\n\nDesde su inauguraci\u00f3n, el hospital de campa\u00f1a efectu\u00f3 m\u00e1s de 11.300 intervenciones quir\u00fargicas, atendi\u00f3 250.000 consultas y m\u00e1s de 1.200 partos, brind\u00f3 19.200 sesiones de fisioterapia y realiz\u00f3 al menos 1.500 transfusiones de sangre.\n\nEsta iniciativa conjunta reuni\u00f3 a la Media Luna Roja Palestina, el CICR y las Sociedades Nacionales de Alemania, Australia, Austria, Canad\u00e1, China (sede nacional y filial de Hong Kong), Dinamarca, Finlandia, Francia, Irlanda, Islandia, Jap\u00f3n, Noruega, Qatar, Reino Unido, Suecia y Suiza. Cada una de estas organizaciones aport\u00f3 personal, competencias, equipos o apoyo para ayudar a sostener la asistencia de salud en Gaza.\n\nEl personal de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja, plenamente comprometido con su tarea, ha seguido prestando atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica d\u00eda tras d\u00eda, apoyando a familias angustiadas y acompa\u00f1ando a los pacientes en el largo y muchas veces incierto camino hacia la recuperaci\u00f3n.\n\n## La situaci\u00f3n actual\n\nAunque el alto el fuego alcanzado en octubre de 2025 dio lugar a una disminuci\u00f3n de los casos de urgencia y de v\u00edctimas en masa relacionados con pacientes con heridas por armas, el acceso seguro y sostenible a la asistencia de salud en Gaza sigue siendo cr\u00edtico. Muchas personas que requieren cuidados avanzados no pueden acceder a la ayuda que necesitan.\n\nLa disminuci\u00f3n de los casos urgentes significa que ahora es posible dedicar m\u00e1s tiempo y recursos a las personas que viven con discapacidad o afecciones cr\u00f3nicas, o que necesitan una cirug\u00eda programada; sin embargo, muchos pacientes siguen teniendo dificultades para encontrar la atenci\u00f3n especializada que necesitan. Los insumos m\u00e9dicos esenciales, los medicamentos y los equipos m\u00e9dicos avanzados siguen escaseando.\n\n***Desde octubre de 2023, todos los hospitales de Gaza han informado que sufrieron da\u00f1os o destrucci\u00f3n. En el sur de Gaza, el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja es uno de los pocos hospitales que funcionan; su departamento de servicios ambulatorios es el \u00fanico centro de atenci\u00f3n primaria de la salud en la gobernaci\u00f3n de Rafah.***\n\n## C\u00f3mo evolucionan las necesidades de asistencia m\u00e9dica\n\nCon la vigencia del alto el fuego, la \u00edndole de las necesidades de salud en Gaza est\u00e1 cambiando. Ahora, las iniciativas de recuperaci\u00f3n permiten prestar m\u00e1s atenci\u00f3n a los cuidados de seguimiento y al tratamiento de afecciones m\u00e9dicas desatendidas. El hospital de campa\u00f1a se est\u00e1 adaptando a este cambio, fortaleciendo la atenci\u00f3n a pacientes ambulatorios, mejorando la capacidad para realizar cirug\u00edas programadas y dando prioridad a la seguridad y bienestar del personal y de los pacientes.\n\nMantiene la capacidad de responder con rapidez a la afluencia de pacientes con heridas por armas, en caso necesario.\n\n## De la respuesta de emergencia a la atenci\u00f3n permanente\n\nEl hospital de campa\u00f1a se concibi\u00f3 inicialmente como una soluci\u00f3n temporal. Las estructuras de las carpas se construyeron para una duraci\u00f3n de seis a doce meses. Ahora, ese plazo se ha superado ampliamente, puesto que las necesidades de asistencia m\u00e9dica urgentes han persistido y las alternativas viables en materia de servicios de salud siguen sin existir. El hospital est\u00e1 situado a unos 100 metros del mar; lo afectan el aire salado, la arena, los inviernos rigurosos y la dificultad de importar equipos de reemplazo como carpas, generadores y unidades de tratamiento de agua.\n\nDado que el hospital ya excedi\u00f3 su vida \u00fatil prevista, el CICR y sus socios efectuaron una reevaluaci\u00f3n, para analizar posibles escenarios futuros y adaptarse a los cambios en las circunstancias.\n\n## El compromiso de seguir dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s\n\nEl CICR y sus socios consideran que el hospital de campa\u00f1a sigue siendo un componente clave de la respuesta sanitaria en Gaza. Existe la urgente necesidad de renovar y modernizar las partes del hospital que est\u00e1n desgastadas o da\u00f1adas, o que han caducado. Teniendo en cuenta las necesidades en materia de salud anteriores y previstas, y a pedido de las autoridades, el CICR y sus socios han decidido extender el programa del hospital de campa\u00f1a por dos a\u00f1os m\u00e1s, hasta 2027, y ampliar su capacidad. Esa ampliaci\u00f3n requiere reemplazar los equipos existentes.\n\n## Reparaci\u00f3n y renovaci\u00f3n\n\nEl aumento de la capacidad a 72 camas comenz\u00f3 a finales de 2025, y se efectu\u00f3 respetando las medidas de control de infecciones. Esta actividad consisti\u00f3, entre otras cosas, en la ampliaci\u00f3n del departamento de servicios ambulatorios, el redimensionamiento de las \u00e1reas de emergencia y triaje, la creaci\u00f3n de nuevas salas de internaci\u00f3n, la renovaci\u00f3n de los sectores de maternidad y pediatr\u00eda y el aumento de los servicios de laboratorio, radiolog\u00eda y banco de sangre.\n\nEn mayo de 2026, el CICR finaliz\u00f3 la importaci\u00f3n de m\u00f3dulos nuevos para reemplazar y mejorar el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja. Se utilizar\u00e1n m\u00e1s de 4.300 elementos, que llegar\u00e1n en un convoy de al menos 25 camiones con m\u00e1s de 400 pal\u00e9s, para renovar las partes del hospital desgastadas, da\u00f1adas o que han caducado tras dos a\u00f1os de funcionamiento en circunstancias dif\u00edciles.\n\n## Qu\u00e9 significa esto para los pacientes\n\nQueremos que el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja preste una atenci\u00f3n de la mejor calidad posible.\n\n***Los pacientes y el personal se beneficiar\u00e1n de un quir\u00f3fano mejorado, departamentos de servicios ambulatorios y de urgencia modernizados, servicios de maternidad y pediatr\u00eda renovados, menor saturaci\u00f3n en las salas y mejores cuidados posoperatorios.***\n\n### Nuestro llamado\n\nLa llegada de equipos e insumos m\u00e9dicos para el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja es un paso positivo para la asistencia de salud en Gaza. Es un ejemplo de lo que se necesita: m\u00e1s asistencia para las personas que necesitan con urgencia atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica de calidad. Nuestra esperanza y nuestro llamamiento es que la asistencia humanitaria llegue a Gaza \u2013siguiendo el ejemplo de este caso\u2013 con rapidez y sin trabas.\n\n### Informaci\u00f3n complementaria\n\n**Reparaci\u00f3n y renovaci\u00f3n del hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja, en cifras:**\n\n- Llegar\u00e1n a Gaza 25 camiones y 427 pal\u00e9s, con aproximadamente 4.300 elementos individuales.\n- Los di\u00e1logos y negociaciones con las autoridades correspondientes se iniciaron a mediados de 2025.\n\n**Pa\u00edses de las 16 Sociedades Nacionales socias que apoyan el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja** **\u2026**\n\nAlemania, Australia, Austria, Canad\u00e1, China (sede nacional y filial de Hong Kong), Dinamarca, Finlandia, Francia, Irlanda, Islandia, Jap\u00f3n, Noruega, Qatar, Reino Unido, Suecia y Suiza.\n\nLa Cruz Roja Noruega, en particular, desempe\u00f1\u00f3 un papel fundamental en el apoyo al hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja desde su creaci\u00f3n en mayo de 2024. La Cruz Roja Noruega ha sido el socio principal del CICR en lo que respecta al despliegue de hospitales de campa\u00f1a desde 2021. Los materiales nuevos para el hospital de campa\u00f1a, que llegaron a Egipto en avi\u00f3n desde el dep\u00f3sito del CICR en Nairobi \u2013con el apoyo de la Uni\u00f3n Europea\u2013, pertenec\u00edan a la Cruz Roja Noruega, que tambi\u00e9n aport\u00f3 una importante ayuda econ\u00f3mica.\n\nEn Egipto, la Media Luna Roja Egipcia brind\u00f3 apoyo log\u00edstico para el material destinado al hospital de campa\u00f1a, que lleg\u00f3 desde Nairobi, hasta su ingreso a Gaza, donde tomaron el relevo otros socios humanitarios.\n\n**La participaci\u00f3n de la Media Luna Roja Palestina (MLRP)**\n\nLa MLRP presta servicios vitales en respuesta a las necesidades de salud de los palestinos en Gaza. En el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja, trabajamos junto con los equipos de ambulancia de la MLRP, que cumplen una funci\u00f3n esencial a la hora de ayudar a las personas para que reciban a tiempo la atenci\u00f3n que necesitan en el hospital de campa\u00f1a. Los voluntarios del servicio de salud mental de la MLRP tambi\u00e9n trabajan en el hospital de campa\u00f1a, brindando apoyo psicosocial a los pacientes a lo largo de todo el proceso de asistencia de salud.\n\n**Rese\u00f1a de los servicios prestados por el hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja**\n\nServicios y procedimientos para pacientes ambulatorios | cirug\u00eda de urgencia y programada | atenci\u00f3n pedi\u00e1trica | servicios de maternidad y obstetricia | servicios de salud mental y apoyo psicosocial | atenci\u00f3n de v\u00edctimas en masa.\n\n**Hechos y cifras**\n\nLas estad\u00edsticas operacionales m\u00e1s recientes del hospital de campa\u00f1a de la Cruz Roja pueden consultarse [**aqu\u00ed**](https:\/\/www.icrc.org\/es\/articulo\/informacion-actualizada-hospital-campana-cruz-roja-rafah-resumen-actividades-operacionales-ultimos-15-meses).","country":[{"id":180,"name":"occupied Palestinian territory","shortname":"oPt","iso3":"pse","location":{"lat":31.9522,"lon":35.2332},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Committee of the Red Cross"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T01:32:57+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212781","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Democratic Republic of Congo Flood 2026 - DREF Operational Update (MDRCD050)","body":"**Description of the Event**\n\n**Date of event**  \n 01-05-2026  \n**What happened, where and when?**\n\nSince 1 May 2026, the city of Uvira in South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has been severely affected by heavy and persistent rainfall that triggered significant flooding following the overflow of the Kalimabenge River. The disaster mainly affected the densely populated and flood-prone neighborhoods of Namianda and Kilibula in Kalundu commune, where floodwaters inundated homes, roads and community infrastructure.\n\nThe floods caused widespread humanitarian impacts, including destruction of shelters, contamination of water sources, damage to sanitation infrastructure and disruption of livelihoods. According to rapid multisectoral assessments conducted between 1 and 5 May 2026, approximately 7,776 people (1,555 households) were affected. A total of 544 houses were damaged, including 13 completely destroyed and 172 partially destroyed, while at least 1,110 people were displaced and forced to seek refuge with host families. Six deaths were also reported following the disaster.\n\nThe floods also severely affected access to essential services and increased public health risks. At least 555 latrines were flooded or damaged, water sources were contaminated and stagnant water accumulated in residential areas, creating favorable conditions for outbreaks of cholera, acute watery diarrhoea, typhoid and malaria. Health facilities, schools, bridges, agricultural gardens and small businesses were also damaged, further increasing the vulnerability of affected populations already living in precarious conditions.\n\nThe situation remains critical and dynamic as continued heavy rainfall and rising water levels in Lake Tanganyika continue to expose communities in Uvira to additional flooding, displacement and further humanitarian deterioration. Operational access to some affected areas also remains challenging due to damaged roads, poor drainage systems and difficult weather conditions.\n\nPrior to the flooding in South Kivu, Maniema Province, particularly Kindu City, had already experienced severe flooding after the Congo River overflowed its banks on 7 April 2026 following continuous heavy rainfall. The communes of Alunguli, Kasuku and Mikelenge were among the most affected areas, with widespread destruction of homes, contamination of water sources, disruption of livelihoods and displacement of affected populations. These initial floods and the resulting humanitarian needs led to the launch of the initial DREF operation in Maniema Province.","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":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T01:19:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212780","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Angola: EVD Readiness - DREF Final Report (MDRAO013)","body":"**Description of the Event**\n\n**Date when the trigger was met**  \n 10-06-2025  \n**What happened, where and when?**\n\nAccording to the WHO, the epicenter of the outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) was in the vicinity of the city of Tshikapa, capital of Kassai province, and the border with Angola (approximately 100 to 200 kilometers, depending on the nearest border crossing point). Although this area is rural and difficult to access, population movements within the province are frequent, particularly between Bulape and Tshikapa. Angola shares a 2,511-kilometre border with the DRC, featuring several active crossing points. Along the provinces bordering DRC, Angola has an estimated population of 5.6 million people who were at risk. The border is highly porous, with frequent land, sea, and air movements. Daily crossings at formal borders are estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 people, in addition to numerous informal crossings. Movements occur for trade, employment, and family visits, with travellers often using informal routes that do not require documentation. Angola also hosts about 57,000 refugees and asylum seekers, mainly from DRC, where conflict and instability continue to drive displacement.\n\nGiven that Ebola is transmitted through direct contact with infected bodily fluids or contaminated animals, this high level of population movement significantly increased the risk of cross-border transmission favoured by the large population movement. Transport across the border is mainly by commercial vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, or on foot.  \n Ebola posed significant risks to various groups, including those who work across the borders. Additionally, refugees in camps and informal settings, living in close quarters were at a heightened risk of infection due to lack of space and sufficient sanitation infrastructure. Refugees often face challenges in accessing formal crossings, leading to increased reliance on informal routes. Common transportation modes include commercial vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles, and walking. However, the region faces challenges such as security concerns due to illegal activities, health risks associated with cross-border movement, and varying infrastructure quality at crossing points.\n\nThe risk of rapid escalation in case of Ebola in the country was also high due to additional challenges such as insecurity, other ongoing health threats and the overall humanitarian challenges in the at-risk areas. The case fatality rate of Ebola averages around 50% in past outbreaks and was feared to worsen with no proper care and no preventive measures, especially in areas with weak health systems, insufficient infection prevention and control (IPC), and poor sanitation. In northern Angola, many health facilities lack essential equipment, medicines, and trained personnel. Limited infrastructure and long travel distances further hinder access to care. On the preventive part, Angola also faces low vaccination coverage, with over 700,000 under-immunized children recorded in 2021, and widespread water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) challenges. Open defecation, unsafe water, and poor waste management contribute to  \n high rates of infectious diseases. These vulnerabilities increase the risk of rapid spread and severe outcomes if Ebola cases are imported.\n\nAlong the provinces bordering DRC, approximately 5.6 million people were considered at potential risk, underscoring the urgent need for robust preparedness, surveillance, and response measures to prevent the spread of Ebola into Angola. The Government of Angola had developed an Ebola contingency plan (September 2025), with this DREF operation aligned to the National Society\u2019s defined role within the government\u2019s overall preparedness and response framework.\n\nBy December 2025, the contingency plan and DREF had supported efforts to minimize the risk of Ebola entering the country, and no cases were reported in Angola by end of operation. In DRC, the outbreak was also diminishing, reducign risk of case introduction to Angola. DRC entered it's post-90 day surveillance period. During this period, the main goal is to to remain on high alert to detect, contain, and stop any new transmission chains rapidly to achieve a permanent \"zero cases\" status and prevent future epidemics.","country":[{"id":19,"name":"Angola","shortname":"Angola","iso3":"ago","location":{"lat":-12.1,"lon":17.91},"primary":true},{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587}}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T01:14:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212779","score":1,"fields":{"title":"\"El Ni\u00f1o\" 2026: \u00bfC\u00f3mo nos preparamos para sus efectos en Am\u00e9rica Latina y el Caribe?","body":"**Cinco claves para entender qu\u00e9 esperar de este fen\u00f3meno clim\u00e1tico y c\u00f3mo la Cruz Roja est\u00e1 actuando para proteger a las comunidades m\u00e1s vulnerables.**\n\nLos [**modelos meteorol\u00f3gicos**](https:\/\/wmo.int\/media\/update\/global-seasonal-climate-update-may-june-july-2026) indican que estamos a las puertas de un \"Ni\u00f1o\u201d fuerte, bajo el que podr\u00edamos experimentar aumentos de temperaturas que superar\u00edan los 2\u00b0C o 3\u00b0C en el Oc\u00e9ano Pac\u00edfico.\n\nCada fen\u00f3meno de [**El Ni\u00f1o**](https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/es\/articulo\/el-nino-que-es-y-que-significa-para-los-desastres) es \u00fanico y se comporta de forma distinta, pero los registros hist\u00f3ricos indican que su activaci\u00f3n conlleva un aumento del riesgo de sequ\u00edas severas en Centroam\u00e9rica y de lluvias torrenciales en el Cono Sur. En este contexto, la acci\u00f3n anticipatoria y la preparaci\u00f3n ante desastres son nuestras mejores herramientas para hacer frente a este fen\u00f3meno.\n\nA partir de una reciente conversaci\u00f3n entre Juan Bazo, meteor\u00f3logo del [**Centro del Clima de la Cruz Roja y de la Media Luna Roja**](https:\/\/www.climatecentre.org\/) y Estefany Jim\u00e9nez, Oficial de Comunicaci\u00f3n para IFRC en las Am\u00e9ricas, desglosamos la evidencia cient\u00edfica y las acciones necesarias para proteger a las comunidades m\u00e1s vulnerables ante este escenario multi-amenaza.\n\n## **1. \u00bfPor qu\u00e9 se habla de un \"S\u00faper Ni\u00f1o\" este a\u00f1o?** \n\nPara que se declare oficialmente el fen\u00f3meno de El Ni\u00f1o, basta con que la temperatura del Oc\u00e9ano Pac\u00edfico suba **0.5\u00b0C** por encima del est\u00e1ndar que marcan los registros hist\u00f3ricos. Para este 2026, los pron\u00f3sticos indican que podr\u00edamos esperar aumentos de entre **2\u00b0C y 3\u00b0C** en el Pac\u00edfico central.\n\nEstos valores esperados son los que ha llevado a que se utilicen calificativos como el \"S\u00faper Ni\u00f1o\" o, como ocurri\u00f3 en 2015, el \"Ni\u00f1o Godzilla\", para referirse a un \"Ni\u00f1o\" fuerte. La transici\u00f3n desde condiciones de enfriamiento (La Ni\u00f1a) hacia un calentamiento extremo ha sido mucho m\u00e1s veloz de lo habitual, lo que obliga a las organizaciones humanitarias, como la IFRC, a escalar sus niveles de preparaci\u00f3n de manera inmediata.\n\n## **2. \u00bfC\u00f3mo impactar\u00eda un \"Ni\u00f1o\" fuerte a Centroam\u00e9rica y el Caribe?** \n\nEl Ni\u00f1o no se comporta igual en todo el continente. Una de las mayores preocupaciones para la regi\u00f3n norte del continente es la supresi\u00f3n de la actividad lluviosa. En Centroam\u00e9rica y el Caribe, el \"Ni\u00f1o\" suele manifestarse mediante una reducci\u00f3n significativa en los acumulados de agua. Esto no implica una ausencia total de lluvias, sino un patr\u00f3n irregular donde las precipitaciones son insuficientes para sostener los ciclos agr\u00edcolas tradicionales.\n\nUna de las regiones donde el impacto es particularmente severo, es en el Corredor Seco centroamericano, donde el d\u00e9ficit h\u00eddrico prolongado amenaza directamente la seguridad alimentaria y los medios de vida de miles de familias. La escasez de agua no solo afecta los cultivos, sino que tambi\u00e9n incrementa los riesgos de salud p\u00fablica relacionados con el acceso a agua segura y la higiene.\n\n## **3. \u00bfQu\u00e9 efectos se podr\u00eda esperar de un \"Ni\u00f1o\" fuerte en Sudam\u00e9rica?** \n\nA diferencia de lo que ocurre en el norte, el \"Ni\u00f1o\" genera un efecto opuesto en el Cono Sur del continente. Mientras que pa\u00edses como Colombia, Venezuela y el norte de Brasil enfrentan condiciones m\u00e1s secas y riesgos de incendios forestales, regiones en el sur de Brasil, Uruguay, el norte de Argentina y el centro de Chile deben prepararse para precipitaciones por encima del promedio.\n\nEste contraste geogr\u00e1fico dentro de un mismo continente exige que la Cruz Roja y sus socios implementen estrategias diferenciadas.\n\n## **4. \u00bfCu\u00e1l es el pron\u00f3stico para la temporada de huracanes bajo el \u201cNi\u00f1o\u201d 2026?** \n\nHist\u00f3ricamente, existe una correlaci\u00f3n directa entre la presencia de un fen\u00f3meno de el \"Ni\u00f1o\" fuerte y una disminuci\u00f3n en la frecuencia e intensidad de los ciclones tropicales en la cuenca del Atl\u00e1ntico. Sin embargo, esta estad\u00edstica no debe interpretarse como una se\u00f1al para bajar la guardia.\n\nAunque el n\u00famero total de tormentas pueda ser menor, las condiciones atmosf\u00e9ricas actuales son altamente din\u00e1micas. Basta con que una sola tormenta tropical logre desarrollarse y tocar tierra para devastar comunidades enteras.\n\nEn el Pac\u00edfico, donde tambi\u00e9n hay huracanes, el aumento de la temperatura del mar sumado a los cambios en el comportamiento del viento que trae el \"Ni\u00f1o\", suele generar condiciones m\u00e1s favorables para la formaci\u00f3n de tormentas.\n\nSea cual sea el pron\u00f3stico, la experiencia y el conocimiento acumulados por la Cruz Roja tras d\u00e9cadas de acompa\u00f1amiento a las comunidades expuestas a huracanes han dejado claro que lo m\u00e1s eficiente, efectivo y \u00e9tico es invertir en iniciativas de preparaci\u00f3n y acci\u00f3n temprana para proteger a m\u00e1s comunidades y sus medios de vida.\n\nEl Centro del Clima tambi\u00e9n monitorea los posibles efectos de un \u201cNi\u00f1o\u201d fuerte en otras regiones. En \u00c1frica, la mirada est\u00e1 puesta sobre un posible efecto de dipolo, con condiciones m\u00e1s secas en el norte y m\u00e1s h\u00famedas en el sur. En Asia, sobre todo en el sur, los efectos de un \u201cNi\u00f1o\u201d estar\u00edan vinculados a otro posible evento clim\u00e1tico: la oscilaci\u00f3n del Oc\u00e9ano \u00cdndico, que tambi\u00e9n se mide por el aumento de la temperatura del mar y modula mucho el clima en la zona y en \u00c1frica. Si estos dos eventos coincidieran, podr\u00edan generar menos tormentas tropicales en todo el Oc\u00e9ano \u00cdndico y m\u00e1s sequ\u00edas en algunas zonas del sur de Asia.\n\n## **5. \u00bfC\u00f3mo podemos prepararnos antes de que llegue el impacto?** \n\nLa estrategia principal de la red de la Cruz Roja frente a este fen\u00f3meno es la Acci\u00f3n Anticipatoria, que se refiere a cualquier acci\u00f3n realizada antes de que ocurra una crisis, con el objetivo de prevenir o reducir los impactos potenciales del desastre.\n\nEl Centro del Clima trabaja junto a las Sociedades Nacionales en la actualizaci\u00f3n de los [**Protocolos de Acci\u00f3n Temprana**](https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/es\/actualidad\/emergencias\/pilar-anticipacion-del-dref), los cuales permiten liberar financiamiento de emergencia de forma inmediata cuando se alcanzan ciertos umbrales cient\u00edficos.\n\nPara los pa\u00edses que a\u00fan no cuentan con estos protocolos formales, la red de la IFRC ofrece herramientas de asistencia t\u00e9cnica y acceso al [**Fondo de Emergencia para la Respuesta a Desastres (IFRC-DREF)**](https:\/\/www.ifrc.org\/es\/actualidad\/llamamientos-emergencia\/fondo-emergencia-para-respuesta-desastres-ifrc-dref) para eventos inminentes.\n\nEl objetivo es anticipar los riesgos y fortalecer la preparaci\u00f3n, utilizando la evidencia cient\u00edfica para proteger hogares, asegurar una asistencia humanitaria efectiva, y cuidar la salud de las comunidades antes de que los efectos de el \"Ni\u00f1o\" alcancen su punto m\u00e1ximo.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-20T01:10:54+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212776","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Safe Programming in Humanitarian Responses: A guide to managing risk","body":"## **Overview**\n\nThe Safe Programming booklet outlines the safe programming approach, which exists to prevent harm in our work as Oxfam, centring the needs of communities and partners to be safe to participate.\n\nThe simple risk assessment (Safe Programming Risk Assessment) is a suggested tool to complete the mandatory process of identifying and acknowledging risks in every activity we do as Oxfam. You can use this tool as a guide for a broader process.\n\n**INTRODUCTION**\n\nAll Oxfam humanitarian responses must include proactive measures to ensure we do not inadvertently cause harm to people, nor undermine the values, standards and norms that underpin our work.\n\nHumanitarian work takes place in high-risk environments. Actively managing actual and potential risks enables us to do this work more effectively and safely. Managing risks systematically helps us monitor trends, avoid \u2018knee-jerk\u2019 reactions, and helps us plan for likely scenarios. Demonstrating that we understand and are actively managing risk builds confidence with the communities with whom we work, as well as our colleagues, partners and donors. Most of all, it means we can do more to help people in crisis situations without inadvertently causing harm.\n\nManaging risk is an ongoing process. Tools such as the quick and simple risk matrix (see page 8) help guide and record the process. Such written risk matrices allow analyses to be reviewed and updated over the course of a response, can be used for briefing incoming staff, and allow staff to document and learn from experience. However, managing risk involves much more than filling in forms\u2014the core of effective risk management is the actions taken.","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Oxfam"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T23:33:15+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212777","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Cluster Sante de la RDC Rapport situationnel - Humanitaire MVE #2 : \u00c9pid\u00e9mie de la maladie \u00e0 virus \u00c9bola (Souche Bundibugyo) dans le contexte humanitaire (18 mai 2026)","body":"***Note : Les donn\u00e9es \u00e9pid\u00e9miologiques MVE de ce sitrep sont issues du COUSP\/INSP.***\n\n**1. Points saillants**\n\n\u2022 Le minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9, \u00e0 travers le COUSP\/INSP, poursuit le leadership de la riposte \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de Maladie \u00e0 Virus Ebola (MVE) souche Bundibugyo, avec l\u2019appui des partenaires nationaux et internationaux.\n\n\u2022 Au 18 mai 2026, la RDC totalise 33 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 30 cas confirm\u00e9s, tandis que le Nord-Kivu enregistre d\u00e9sormais 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 Le minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9, avec l\u2019appui de l\u2019OMS et des partenaires, poursuit la mont\u00e9e en puissance de la r\u00e9ponse avec le d\u00e9ploiement d\u2019experts, le renforcement des capacit\u00e9s diagnostiques, l\u2019installation des structures de prise en charge et le pr\u00e9positionnement des intrants.\n\n\u2022 La riposte se d\u00e9roule dans un contexte humanitaire complexe marqu\u00e9 par les d\u00e9placements de populations, l\u2019activisme des groupes arm\u00e9s, les contraintes d\u2019acc\u00e8s humanitaire et les risques de propagation transfrontali\u00e8re.\n\n\u2022 Les besoins urgents concernent le renforcement de la coordination op\u00e9rationnelle, la surveillance, le laboratoire, la prise en charge, la PCI, la mobilit\u00e9 des \u00e9quipes et la logistique.\n\n\u2022 2 alertes notifi\u00e9es respectivement dans la zone de sant\u00e9 de Kadutu (1 alerte) et dans la zone de sant\u00e9 de Shabunda (1 alerte) au Sud-Kivu. Les 2 alertes ont \u00e9t\u00e9 investigu\u00e9es et invalid\u00e9es.\n\n\u2022 La Division Provinciale de la Sant\u00e9 du Sud-Kivu\/Bukavu a organis\u00e9 une r\u00e9union de coordination avec les partenaires de Cluster Sant\u00e9 Sud-Kivu.","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":"2026-05-19T23:30:34+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212774","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Syrian Arab Republic - Emergency Mobility Tracking and Cross Border Monitoring Situation Update - Round 11 (18 May 2026)","body":"**OVERVIEW**\n\nFollowing the ceasefire announced on 17 April 2026 in Lebanon, the rate of displacement from Lebanon into the Syrian Arab Republic (hereafter referred to as Syria) has declined compared to the initial phase of the conflict.\n\nAs of 18 May, a total of 333,856 movements had been recorded along the four points of entry (PoEs) at the Syrian\u2013Lebanese border where DTM tracks population movements into Syria. The majority of movements recorded involved Syrian nationals (96%), with Lebanese nationals accounting for the remaining 4 per cent. An additional 2,031 Lebanese nationals were reported to have transited onward through Syria to Jordan.\n\nBetween 2 March and 18 May, DTM recorded 122,083 individuals arriving across 1,230 locations spanning all 14 governorates in Syria. Arrivals were predominantly Syrian, with Lebanese nationals accounting for less than 1 per cent of those recorded. Approximately 31,000 individuals have returned to Lebanon since the peak of displacement (153,087 arrivals recorded on 27 April 2026).\n\nKey informants (KIs) reported that arriving returnees continue to face multiple reintegration challenges, including inadequate access to safe housing, with many residing in damaged or partially destroyed homes, unfinished buildings, temporary shelters, or low-quality rented accommodation. Children\u2019s educational integration continues to pose challenges, particularly for those previously enrolled in the Lebanese curriculum, resulting in difficulties adapting to the Syrian education system. Livelihood opportunities remain predominantly unstable and informal, with many returnees dependent on seasonal agricultural work and low-paid daily labour, while opportunities matching prior skills and experience remain limited. Concurrently, an expanding labour supply alongside weak market demand has contributed to declining wages and increased vulnerability to exploitation.\n\n***The situation remains fluid, and DTM continues to monitor developments.***","country":[{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51},"primary":true},{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89}}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T23:17:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212773","score":1,"fields":{"title":"IOM CCCM New arrivals Flash update - Cabo Delgado, Ancuabe - 19 May 2026","body":"**CONTEXT**\n\nBetween 05 and 08 May 2026, escalating attacks and persistent fear of further violence in Ancuabe District, across Mesa and Metoro Administrative Posts, triggered the displacement of approximately 1,925 households (5,118 individuals) from the villages of Namacuile, Minheuene, Nacoja, Napete, and Chiute. The aected families have taken refuge across resettlement sites and host communities within Ancuabe District. Within the relocation sites Nanjua A, Milamba 2, and Milamba Expans\u00e3o approximately 1,178 individuals (332 households) are currently accommodated. In parallel, approximately 3,940 individuals (1,593 households) are residing within host communities in the bairros of Nanjua B, Nanjua A, Mesa Sede, Majasse, Namapa, and Nacololo.\n\nIn response, IOM CCCM, in close coordination with the Ancuabe District Government and humanitarian partners, is supporting a coordinated emergency response. Operational focus remains on Nanjua A and Nanjua B, which serve as primary facilities for humanitarian assistance, service delivery, and coordination. CCCM interventions include site monitoring, registration and verification of displaced populations, facilitation of partner presence, and the strengthening of site-level coordination and accountability mechanisms to enhance the effectiveness and inclusiveness through referrals of the response.\n\nPriority needs across affected populations remain acute and multisectoral, including, food, shelter and NFI has the reported main needs. The security situation in areas of origin remains volatile and unpredictable, with displaced populations expressing unwillingness to return due to ongoing insecurity. This suggests a high likelihood of protracted displacement, further intensifying pressure on host communities and underscoring the need for sustained and scaled-up humanitarian assistance.\n\nOverall, the situation highlights the urgent need to reinforce CCCM coordination structures, expand service coverage beyond the relocation sites, and ensure a comprehensive, multi-sectoral response to address the immediate and evolving needs of affected populations.","country":[{"id":164,"name":"Mozambique","shortname":"Mozambique","iso3":"moz","location":{"lat":-18.09,"lon":34.75},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"CCCM Cluster"},{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T20:28:57+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212768","score":1,"fields":{"title":"\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0641\u0648\u0636\u064a\u0629 \u0648\u062c\u0645\u0639\u064a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062d\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0627\u0644\u0645\u064a\u0629 \u062a\u0648\u0642\u0639\u0627\u0646 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Mundial de la Salud acaba de declarar como una emergencia de salud p\u00fablica de importancia internacional.\n\n\u201cHasta la fecha se han notificado un total de 246 casos sospechosos, con 80 posibles muertes registradas en la provincia de Ituri, al este de la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo, y dos casos en Uganda, uno de los cuales ha resultado mortal. Las cifras subrayan la urgencia de apoyar a los gobiernos mientras preparan medidas de respuesta r\u00e1pida al brote con la participaci\u00f3n de las comunidades y de las partes interesadas pertinentes con el objetivo de contener una mayor propagaci\u00f3n y garantizar la coordinaci\u00f3n transfronteriza.\n\n\u201cEsta versi\u00f3n del virus del \u00c9bola, la cepa Bundibugyo, es menos com\u00fan que la cepa Zaire. Actualmente no existe ninguna vacuna ni tratamiento aprobados. Se cree que la circulaci\u00f3n de este virus del \u00c9bola podr\u00eda haber comenzado a finales de abril.\n\n\u201cLa inestabilidad en materia de seguridad, las constantes restricciones al acceso y la elevada movilidad de la poblaci\u00f3n est\u00e1n aumentando el riesgo de que se produzca una r\u00e1pida transmisi\u00f3n en las zonas afectadas y las regiones vecinas. Los ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as son especialmente vulnerables a los efectos de los brotes de \u00c9bola, entre los que se encuentran la interrupci\u00f3n de los servicios esenciales, la p\u00e9rdida de los progenitores y cuidadores, el estigma, el malestar psicosocial y el aumento de los riesgos para la protecci\u00f3n.\n\n\u201cUNICEF ya ha movilizado con destino a Bunia cerca de 50 toneladas de suministros para la prevenci\u00f3n y el control de infecciones, como desinfectantes y jabones, equipos de protecci\u00f3n individual, pastillas potabilizadoras y dep\u00f3sitos de agua. Adem\u00e1s, est\u00e1 a punto de llegar un equipo multidisciplinar de respuesta r\u00e1pida ante emergencias para prestar asistencia t\u00e9cnica en zonas prioritarias que, entre esas cosas, realizar\u00e1 tareas de apoyo a las actividades de comunicaci\u00f3n de riesgos y participaci\u00f3n comunitaria destinadas a ampliar la difusi\u00f3n de informaci\u00f3n entre las familias sobre la forma en que se transmite el \u00c9bola y la mejor manera de reducir el riesgo de infecci\u00f3n. Ya hay m\u00e1s de 2.000 trabajadores sanitarios comunitarios sobre el terreno, pero se necesita urgentemente aumentar la capacidad y los recursos para garantizar una cobertura eficaz, especialmente en las zonas de dif\u00edcil acceso.\n\n\u201cEn respuesta al brote, UNICEF ha activado su m\u00e1xima clasificaci\u00f3n de emergencia (una Emergencia Corporativa de Nivel 3) para ampliar las labores de organizaci\u00f3n de las actividades de preparaci\u00f3n y respuesta en las zonas afectadas y de mayor riesgo. La activaci\u00f3n permite la asignaci\u00f3n inmediata de fondos flexibles, el despliegue acelerado de personal de emergencia, la simplificaci\u00f3n de los procedimientos operativos en las oficinas en los pa\u00edses y una mejor coordinaci\u00f3n a nivel regional y de la sede para apoyar a los ni\u00f1os, las ni\u00f1as y las familias afectados por el brote. UNICEF colabora con diversos aliados, entre ellos la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud y el Centro Africano para el Control y la Prevenci\u00f3n de Enfermedades, en apoyo a las respuestas coordinadas por los gobiernos.\n\n\u201cCada brote de \u00c9bola pone a los ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as en riesgo, no solo por el virus en s\u00ed, sino por la perturbaci\u00f3n generalizada que causa en los sistemas de salud, nutrici\u00f3n, educaci\u00f3n y protecci\u00f3n. UNICEF pide un acceso humanitario inmediato, seguro y sostenido a las comunidades afectadas, en particular en el este de la Rep\u00fablica Democr\u00e1tica del Congo, para que podamos llegar a los ni\u00f1os, las ni\u00f1as y las familias vulnerables.\n\n\u201cUna acci\u00f3n r\u00e1pida, una participaci\u00f3n comunitaria basada en la confianza y un apoyo sostenido a los equipos de primera l\u00ednea y a los trabajadores sanitarios comunitarios \u2013que tambi\u00e9n se enfrentan a riesgos importantes\u2013 ser\u00e1n fundamentales para proteger a los ni\u00f1os y ni\u00f1as y prevenir una mayor propagaci\u00f3n\u201d.\n\n## Contactos de prensa\n\n**Dheepa Pandian**\n\nJefe de comunicaci\u00f3n\n\nUNICEF \u00c1frica Oriental y Meridional\n\nCorreo electr\u00f3nico: dpandian@unicef.org\n\n**Halimatou Amadou**\n\nEspecialista de comunicaci\u00f3n\n\nUNICEF \u00c1frica Central y Occidental\n\nTel\u00e9fono: +221 787 003 555\n\nCorreo electr\u00f3nico: hamadou@unicef.org\n\n**Brian Keeley**\n\nUNICEF Innocenti\n\nCorreo electr\u00f3nico: bkeeley@unicef.org\n\n**Sara Alhattab**\n\nUNICEF Nueva York\n\nTel\u00e9fono: +1 917 957 6536\n\nCorreo electr\u00f3nico: salhattab@unicef.org","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":"UN Children's Fund"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T18:33:03+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212763","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Middle East war causing \u201cmost expensive Eid ever\u201d and rising global hunger","body":"The ongoing Middle East crisis and disruption to global supply chains is causing the most expensive Eid al Adha ever, increasing hunger and impeding aid delivery in some of the world\u2019s poorest countries, Islamic Relief says.\n\nIn Sudan, the cost of delivering Islamic Relief\u2019s annual qurbani food distributions has increased by over 60%, the price of bread has doubled, and fuel prices have almost tripled over the last three months.\n\nAs Muslims around the world prepare to celebrate Eid al Adha next week, Islamic Relief is undertaking qurbani (sacrifice) distributions, providing meat to vulnerable families. For many it is the only meat they will get to eat this month and vital to stave off malnutrition. In 2025 Islamic Relief distributed qurbani to 3.2 million people in 29 countries.\n\nIn Sudan, where three years of war has created the world\u2019s biggest hunger crisis, Islamic Relief is distributing canned qurbani meat to displaced families and initially planned to reach more than 92,500 people. However, the rapidly rising costs mean the number of people or quantity of meat per family may now have to be significantly reduced unless funding increases.\n\n**Shihab Mohamed Ali, Islamic Relief\u2019s senior programme manager in Sudan, says:**\n\n*\u201cThe war in the Middle East is increasing people\u2019s suffering here in Sudan as it\u2019s cutting off trade and imports. For many vulnerable families this is the most expensive Eid they have experienced and people are worrying about how they will feed their children.*\n\n*\u201cA few months ago we could buy six pieces of bread with 1,000 Sudanese pounds, but now you can only buy three. Fuel prices have risen by 182%, which automatically increases the price of other commodities. The price of distributing qurbani has rocketed from $5 per can to $8. Local food production is hampered as well, as fertilisers, seeds and agricultural inputs are getting scarce in the markets. The impact is affecting people all over Sudan but it\u2019s worst in regions like Kordofan and Darfur where there is heavy fighting and highest levels of malnutrition.*\n\n*\u201cThe rising costs and funding shortfalls mean we may have to reduce the number of people we can reach or the quantity of meat that each family receives.\u201d*\n\nRising prices and rapidly fluctuating exchange rates mean that vendors Islamic Relief usually works with to secure supplies in Sudan are declining to sign contracts.\n\nNew fighting in Darfur and Kordofan is forcing hundreds of thousands of people towards the capital Khartoum and other safe and stable states, with displaced families turning to community kitchens for support. But the kitchens such as those in Khartoum are having to turn people away as they do not have the funds to buy increasingly expensive supplies. Community kitchens which have been a lifeline for people in Sudan are closing at a rate of over 40% in the last six months.\n\nIslamic Relief teams are seeing similar challenges in other countries affected by severe hunger crises. In parts of Somalia, where drought has pushed many families towards starvation, the cost of fuel has more than doubled from about $0.60 per litre to $1.50, increasing the cost of food and hampering aid delivery. In Lebanon, where ongoing attacks have displaced entire communities, a fuel tank of 20 litres has jumped from $19 to $27, pushing up other prices and the cost of essential services.\n\nIslamic Relief continues to call for a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in the Middle East and urgent steps to ensure that humanitarian aid and vital supplies of fuel, food, medicine and other essential items are allowed to flow unimpeded.\n\nNotes\n\n- Qurbani means sacrifice. During the Islamic month of Dhul Hijjah, Muslims around the world sacrifice an animal \u2013 a goat, sheep, cow or camel \u2013 to reflect Prophet Ibrahim\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail (AS) for the sake of God. After the animal has been sacrificed, its meat is then distributed to people in need, enabling them to have a nutritious meal for Eid al Adha.\n- In Sudan, Islamic Relief\u2019s qurbani distributions normally provide either live bulls or canned meat at Qurbani during Eid Aladha with a family of five people usually receiving 10 cans of 450 grams each.\n\nIslamic Relief Worldwide is a faith-based humanitarian and development organisation, supporting vulnerable communities affected by poverty, conflict and disasters. Founded in 1984, it has grown into one of the largest Muslim humanitarian organisations, last year helping over 14.5 million people in 39 countries\n\nThe post [Middle East war causing \u201cmost expensive Eid ever\u201d and rising global hunger ](https:\/\/islamic-relief.org\/news\/middle-east-war-causing-most-expensive-eid-ever-and-rising-global-hunger\/)appeared first on [Islamic Relief Worldwide](https:\/\/islamic-relief.org).","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Islamic Relief"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T18:03:04+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212760","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Statement of the Sudan Women Advisory Group to the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) on the killing of several volunteers and humanitarian workers in Dilling in South Kordofan state [EN\/AR]","body":"The Sudan Women Advisory Group strongly condemns the killing of several Emergency Response Room volunteers, including a woman volunteer from the Women\u2019s Emergency Room in Dilling, South Kordofan State, following the shelling that struck the city last week and resulted in additional civilian deaths and injuries.\n\nIt is with profound sorrow and grief that the Sudan Women Advisory Group mourns the volunteers who lost their lives in this tragic incident while carrying out their humanitarian duties. Their deaths constitute not only a humanitarian tragedy, but also a profound loss to the humanitarian community and to the conflict-affected communities they served with courage and dedication.\n\nThis incident serves as a tragic reminder of the grave risks faced by frontline humanitarian workers in Sudan, particularly those working within women-led organizations (WLOs), which continue to provide life-saving assistance amid insecurity, growing operational constraints, and rapidly escalating humanitarian needs.\n\nWomen volunteers and humanitarian workers continue to carry out their duties under extremely dangerous conditions and with limited protection measures in place, further heightening the risks they face while delivering essential humanitarian assistance and services, particularly in areas affected by active conflict and heightened insecurity.\n\nThe Sudan Women Advisory Group considers the direct targeting of civilians, humanitarian workers, and community-led initiatives to constitute a grave violation of international humanitarian law and a serious breach of the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. It further emphasizes that humanitarian workers and volunteers, including those engaged in community-led initiatives and women-led organizations (WLOs), must be protected at all times and must never be subjected to violence or targeted in the course of their humanitarian work.\n\nThe Sudan Women Advisory Group further expresses grave concern over the continued impunity for violations committed against civilians and humanitarian workers, and underscores that ensuring accountability is not discretionary, but a fundamental obligation under international law.\n\nAmid unprecedented strain on Sudan\u2019s humanitarian infrastructure and essential services, women-led organizations (WLOs), including Emergency Response Rooms, continue to play a critical role in delivering humanitarian assistance and providing protection and life-saving support to conflict-affected communities.\n\n**The Sudan Women Advisory Group calls on all parties to the conflict to:**\n\n- Uphold their obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.\n- Take all necessary measures to ensure the protection of civilians, humanitarian personnel, and community volunteers.\n- Respect and safeguard humanitarian and community-led initiatives, including emergency response rooms and women-led organizations (WLOs).\n- Guarantee safe, timely, and unhindered humanitarian access to all people affected by the conflict.\n\nThe Sudan Women Advisory Group extends its deepest condolences and heartfelt sympathy to the families of the victims, their colleagues, and the communities they served, and wishes a swift recovery to those injured. It further reaffirms its full solidarity with all volunteers and frontline humanitarian workers contributing to the response effort across Sudan.","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Women"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:53:39+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212758","score":1,"fields":{"title":"L\u2019OIM et la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale du Croissant Vert s\u2019associent pour soutenir la sant\u00e9 mentale des migrants","body":"**Gen\u00e8ve, 19 mai 2026** \u2013 L\u2019Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) et la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale du Croissant Vert (IFGC) ont sign\u00e9 \u00e0 Gen\u00e8ve un protocole d\u2019accord visant \u00e0 renforcer leur coop\u00e9ration dans les domaines de la sant\u00e9 mentale et du soutien psychosocial, ainsi que de la pr\u00e9vention des addictions, au b\u00e9n\u00e9fice des migrants et des communaut\u00e9s d\u00e9plac\u00e9es.\n\n\u00ab Alors que les besoins humanitaires continuent de cro\u00eetre \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9chelle mondiale, ce partenariat contribuera \u00e0 renforcer la pr\u00e9vention et le traitement des troubles li\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019usage de substances et d\u2019autres comportements addictifs parmi les migrants touch\u00e9s par les crises, les d\u00e9placements et l\u2019instabilit\u00e9 \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Vincent Houver, Directeur du D\u00e9partement des voies de mobilit\u00e9 et de l\u2019inclusion de l\u2019OIM. \u00ab Il renforce \u00e9galement notre engagement commun \u00e0 r\u00e9duire la stigmatisation et la discrimination, en veillant \u00e0 ce que les personnes et communaut\u00e9s en situation de vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 b\u00e9n\u00e9ficient d\u2019un soutien digne et appropri\u00e9. \u00bb\n\nDans le cadre de cet accord, l\u2019OIM et l\u2019IFGC collaboreront \u00e0 travers des initiatives conjointes de formation, de recherche et de partage des connaissances, ainsi que des activit\u00e9s coordonn\u00e9es au niveau national. Le partenariat explorera \u00e9galement la mise en \u0153uvre de programmes conjoints ax\u00e9s sur la pr\u00e9vention des addictions et le soutien \u00e0 la sant\u00e9 mentale et au bien\u2011\u00eatre psychosocial des communaut\u00e9s migrantes.\n\nLe Secr\u00e9taire g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale du Croissant Vert, l\u2019Ambassadeur Mehmet G\u00fcll\u00fco\u011flu, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 :\n\n\u00ab La migration est un processus multidimensionnel qui va bien au\u2011del\u00e0 du simple d\u00e9placement physique. Elle comporte \u00e9galement de nombreux d\u00e9fis psychologiques, sociaux et culturels. Il est particuli\u00e8rement important de soutenir la sant\u00e9 mentale des personnes touch\u00e9es par les crises, les conflits arm\u00e9s et les d\u00e9placements forc\u00e9s.  \nEn tant que F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale du Croissant Vert, nous attachons une grande importance au renforcement de nos connaissances et de notre expertise en mati\u00e8re de pr\u00e9vention des addictions gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la coop\u00e9ration internationale. Nous sommes convaincus que cet accord avec l\u2019OIM contribuera aux efforts de protection et de pr\u00e9vention en faveur du bien\u2011\u00eatre psychosocial des communaut\u00e9s migrantes. \u00bb\n\nCet accord s\u2019inscrit dans le cadre plus large des activit\u00e9s de l\u2019OIM visant \u00e0 promouvoir le bien\u2011\u00eatre des migrants et des populations touch\u00e9es par les crises, \u00e0 travers des partenariats avec des organisations mondiales et r\u00e9gionales.\n\nL\u2019OIM est la principale organisation intergouvernementale du syst\u00e8me des Nations Unies consacr\u00e9e \u00e0 la promotion d\u2019une migration humaine et ordonn\u00e9e depuis 1951. Depuis la cr\u00e9ation, en 1999, de son Unit\u00e9 de la sant\u00e9 mentale, du soutien psychosocial et de la communication interculturelle, l\u2019OIM int\u00e8gre le soutien psychosocial et la sant\u00e9 mentale dans ses interventions humanitaires, ses actions de rel\u00e8vement, ses programmes de sant\u00e9 publique et ses services d\u2019assistance aux migrants \u00e0 travers le monde. En 2025, l\u2019OIM a fourni un soutien en sant\u00e9 mentale et psychosociale \u00e0 plus de 1,4 million de personnes dans 99 pays.\n\nFond\u00e9e \u00e0 Istanbul en 2016, la F\u00e9d\u00e9ration internationale du Croissant Vert r\u00e9unit des organisations ind\u00e9pendantes de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 civile de 70 pays, afin de promouvoir des communaut\u00e9s plus saines et plus r\u00e9silientes gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 la pr\u00e9vention des addictions. L\u2019IFGC soutient ses membres par le plaidoyer, la formation et le partage des connaissances, et agit contre les addictions li\u00e9es aux substances et aux comportements, notamment le tabac, l\u2019alcool, les drogues, les jeux d\u2019argent et l\u2019usage excessif des technologies.\n\n*Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le* [*Centre m\u00e9dias de l'OIM*](https:\/\/www.iom.int\/fr\/centre-des-medias-de-loim)*.*","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:33:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212756","score":1,"fields":{"title":"India (Uttar Pradesh) | Recent severe weather - DG ECHO Daily Map | 19\/05\/2026","country":[{"id":119,"name":"India","shortname":"India","iso3":"ind","location":{"lat":22.76,"lon":79.28},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:17:18+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212755","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director, Crisis Response Division, OCHA, on behalf of Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator \u2013 Briefing to the Security Council on Ukraine, 19 May 2026","body":"*New York, 19 May 2026*\n\n*As delivered*\n\nMr. President,\n\nHumanitarian workers in Ukraine came under repeated attack last week.\n\nAs mentioned by my \\[Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA)\\] colleague \\[Ms. Kayoko Gotoh, Officer-in-charge for Europe, Central Asia and the Americas\\], two separate convoys, clearly marked as being part of the United Nations, were hit while carrying life-saving assistance to civilians in need. Both missions had been notified well in advance through established channels.\n\nOn May 12th, a WFP truck that had delivered food to front-line communities was hit by a drone in the Dnipro region, injuring the driver.\n\nOn May 14th, a United Nations vehicle on a humanitarian mission was struck by a drone in Kherson city. My OCHA colleagues and UNDSS colleagues were on that convoy. Twenty minutes later, our colleagues were struck again.\n\nThese brazen incidents are not isolated. In the same week, other humanitarian missions were hit, injuring humanitarian workers and damaging assets.\n\nOn May 14th, a World Central Kitchen van delivering hot meals to civilians was hit, damaging the vehicle.\n\nOn May 15th, a Ukrainian NGO delivering food to a collective site was hit, injuring two people, one of whom remains in critical condition.\n\nBetween January and April of this year, three humanitarian workers were killed and ten others injured.\n\nThese attacks are intensifying, making the delivery of humanitarian assistance increasingly difficult, if not impossible in some areas.\n\nHumanitarian workers in Ukraine are taking immense risks to save lives. However, the weapons being deployed \u2013 cheap, deadly \u2013 are rapidly changing what it means to deliver life-saving assistance.\n\nHumanitarian workers and assets must be respected. This entails taking active steps to spare them. Attacking them directly is strictly prohibited and can amount to war crimes.\n\nWe call on all parties to urgently assess these incidents, so they do not happen again.\n\nMr. President, Excellencies,\n\nThese attacks happened as violence against civilians is increasing across the country. Drones have struck public buses in Kherson, killing people on their way to work. In Poltava, first responders who came to put out a fire at a gas facility were killed alongside the workers they were trying to help. Short-range drones killed more civilians in April alone than in any month since February 2022.\n\nOn May 14th, as you have just heard from DPPA Kayoko Gotoh, the population of Kyiv faced deadly, large-scale attacks that killed and injured scores of civilians, including children as you have. We commend the work of national first responders to continue to rescue civilians.\n\nMr. President,\n\nThe rules of war are binding on all parties to armed conflict and aim to limit human suffering and spare those who are not fighting. When clearly marked humanitarian convoys, civilians going about their daily lives, and first responders rushing to help are killed and injured again and again. This shows a pattern that defies international humanitarian law. Civilians and civilian objects must be respected.\n\nMr. President,\n\nDespite the dangers, we continue to deliver aid wherever access allows.\n\nSince February 2022, the United Nations and our partners have carried out 250 humanitarian convoys to front-line communities. In April alone, the World Food Programme provided to nearly 160,000 people with food across seven front-line regions.\n\nMr. President,\n\nI remain deeply concerned about the situation for civilians in and around front-line communities. Whatever side of the line they may be, every day is a matter of life and death. Over a single weekend this month, 930 civilians \u2013 including more than 180 children \u2013 were evacuated from front-line areas in Donetsk with humanitarian support.\n\nOCHA can work with the parties on arrangements to support voluntary, dignified, safe evacuations and ensure safe and regular humanitarian access to front-line communities.\n\nMr. President,\n\nHumanitarian needs continue to grow, even as diplomatic efforts continue. We are reaching only a fraction of the 10.8 million people who need humanitarian assistance. We have received some $845 million of the US$2.3 billion \u2013 $1.7 billion is still needed.\n\nFunding is not simply about keeping operations going. It determines whether civilians trapped near the front-line receive medical care, it determines whether families displaced by fighting can stabilize their lives, and whether it determines humanitarian organizations can remain present where needs are greatest.\n\nMr. President,\n\nMy asks to this Council are not new.\n\nFirst, use your influence to ensure that international humanitarian law is respected. Wars have rules. They are unequivocal.\n\nThis means ensuring the protection of civilians, including by allowing them to voluntarily leave for safer areas.\n\nThis means ensuring rapid, unimpeded humanitarian access to civilians in need wherever they are. We need the active engagement of parties to facilitate this.\n\nWithout immediate action, it will become even harder to deliver aid and civilian suffering will deepen.\n\nSecond, provide timely funding. Delays in funding forces impossible choices about who receives assistance and who does not.\n\nMr. President,\n\nCivilians across Ukraine cannot wait for a political breakthrough to be protected and to have their basic needs met. Protection, humanitarian access and funding remain essential while efforts toward a just and lasting peace continue.\n\nI thank you.","country":[{"id":241,"name":"Ukraine","shortname":"Ukraine","iso3":"ukr","location":{"lat":49.32,"lon":31.32},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:13:30+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212753","score":1,"fields":{"title":"IOM and International Federation of the Green Crescent Partner to Support Migrants Mental Health","body":"**Geneva, 19 May 2026** \u2013 The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the International Federation of the Green Crescent (IFGC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva to strengthen cooperation on mental health and psychosocial support, and addiction prevention for migrants and displaced communities.\n\n\u201cAs humanitarian needs continue to grow worldwide, this partnership will help strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders and other addictive behaviours among migrants affected by crisis, displacement, and instability,\u201d said Vincent Houver, Director of IOM\u2019s Department of Mobility Pathways and Inclusion. It also reinforces our shared commitment to reducing stigma and discrimination, ensuring that vulnerable populations receive dignified support.\u201d\n\nUnder the agreement, IOM and IFGC will work together through joint training initiatives, research and knowledge-sharing, and coordinated activities at country level. The partnership will also explore joint programmes focused on addiction prevention and mental health support for migrant communities.\n\nSecretary General of the International Federation of Green Crescent (IFGC), Amb. Dr. Mehmet G\u00fcll\u00fco\u011flu, said: \u201cMigration is a multidimensional process that goes far beyond physical relocation. It also involves many psychological, social, and cultural challenges. It is especially important to support the mental health of individuals affected by crises, wars, and forced displacement. As the IFGC, we value strengthening our knowledge and experience in the field of addiction prevention through international cooperation. We believe that through this agreement with IOM, we will contribute to protective and preventive efforts that support the psychosocial well-being of migrant communities.\u201d\n\nThe agreement reflects IOM\u2019s broader work to support the well-being of migrants and crisis-affected populations through partnerships with global and regional organizations.\n\nIOM is the leading intergovernmental organization within the United Nations system dedicated to promoting humane and orderly migration since 1951. Following the establishment of its Mental Health, Psychosocial Support and Intercultural Communication Unit in 1999, IOM has integrated mental health and psychosocial support into humanitarian response, recovery efforts, public health programmes, and migrant assistance services worldwide. In 2025, IOM provided mental health and psychosocial support to more than 1.4 million people across 99 countries.\n\nFounded in Istanbul in 2016, the International Federation of Green Crescent brings together independent civil society organizations from 70 countries to promote healthier and more resilient communities through addiction prevention. IFGC supports its members through advocacy, training, and knowledge-sharing, addressing substance and behavioural addictions including tobacco, alcohol, drugs, gambling, and excessive technology use.\n\n*For more information, please visit* [*IOM\u2019s Media Centre*](https:\/\/www.iom.int\/media-inquiries)*.*","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:03:09+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212752","score":1,"fields":{"title":"La OIM y la Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de la Media Luna Verde se unen para apoyar la salud mental de las personas migrantes","body":"**Ginebra, 19 de mayo de 2026** \u2013 La Organizaci\u00f3n Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) y la Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de la Media Luna Verde (IFGC) han firmado un Memorando de Entendimiento en Ginebra para reforzar la cooperaci\u00f3n en materia de salud mental y apoyo psicosocial, as\u00ed como en la prevenci\u00f3n de las adicciones entre las personas migrantes y las poblaciones desplazadas.\n\n\"A medida que las necesidades humanitarias siguen creciendo en todo el mundo, esta alianza contribuir\u00e1 a reforzar la prevenci\u00f3n y el tratamiento de los trastornos por consumo de sustancias y otros comportamientos adictivos entre las personas migrantes afectadas por crisis, desplazamiento e inestabilidad\", afirm\u00f3 Vincent Houver, Director del Departamento de V\u00edas de Movilidad e Inclusi\u00f3n de la OIM. \"Adem\u00e1s, refuerza nuestro compromiso com\u00fan de reducir el estigma y la discriminaci\u00f3n, garantizando que las poblaciones en situaci\u00f3n de vulnerabilidad reciban un apoyo digno\".\n\nEn virtud del acuerdo, la OIM y la IFGC colaborar\u00e1n mediante iniciativas conjuntas de formaci\u00f3n, investigaci\u00f3n e intercambio de conocimientos, as\u00ed como actividades coordinadas a nivel nacional. El partenariado tambi\u00e9n explorar\u00e1 programas conjuntos centrados en la prevenci\u00f3n de las adicciones (tanto a sustancias como conductuales) y en el apoyo a la salud mental de las comunidades migrantes.\n\nEl Secretario General de la Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de la Media Luna Verde (IFGC), el embajador Dr. Mehmet G\u00fcll\u00fco\u011flu, declar\u00f3: \"La migraci\u00f3n es un proceso multidimensional que va mucho m\u00e1s all\u00e1 del traslado f\u00edsico. Tambi\u00e9n implica numerosos retos psicol\u00f3gicos, sociales y culturales. Es especialmente importante apoyar la salud mental de las personas afectadas por crisis, guerras y desplazamientos forzados. Como IFGC, valoramos el fortalecimiento de nuestros conocimientos y experiencia en el \u00e1mbito de la prevenci\u00f3n de las adicciones a trav\u00e9s de la cooperaci\u00f3n internacional. Creemos que, mediante este acuerdo con la OIM, contribuiremos a los esfuerzos de protecci\u00f3n y prevenci\u00f3n que apoyan el bienestar psicosocial de las comunidades migrantes\".\n\nEl acuerdo refleja la labor m\u00e1s amplia de la OIM para apoyar el bienestar de las personas migrantes y las poblaciones afectadas por crisis a trav\u00e9s de asociaciones con organizaciones mundiales y regionales.\n\nLa OIM es la organizaci\u00f3n intergubernamental l\u00edder dentro del Sistema de las Naciones Unidas, dedicada desde 1951 a promover una migraci\u00f3n humana y ordenada. Tras la creaci\u00f3n de su Unidad de Salud Mental, Apoyo Psicosocial y Comunicaci\u00f3n Intercultural en 1999, la OIM ha integrado la salud mental y el apoyo psicosocial en la respuesta humanitaria, las iniciativas de recuperaci\u00f3n, los programas de salud p\u00fablica y los servicios de asistencia a las personas migrantes en todo el mundo. En 2025, la OIM prest\u00f3 apoyo psicosocial y de salud mental a m\u00e1s de 1,4 millones de personas en 99 pa\u00edses.\n\nFundada en Estambul en 2016, la Federaci\u00f3n Internacional de la Media Luna Verde re\u00fane a organizaciones independientes de la sociedad civil de 70 pa\u00edses para promover comunidades m\u00e1s saludables y resilientes mediante la prevenci\u00f3n de las adicciones. La IFGC apoya a sus miembros a trav\u00e9s de la promoci\u00f3n, la formaci\u00f3n y el intercambio de conocimientos, abordando tanto las adicciones a sustancias como las adicciones conductuales, incluyendo el tabaco, el alcohol, las drogas, la ludopat\u00eda y el uso excesivo de la tecnolog\u00eda.\n\n*Para m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n, visite el* [*Centro de Medios de la OIM*](https:\/\/www.iom.int\/es\/centro-de-medios-de-la-oim)*.*","country":[{"id":254,"name":"World","shortname":"World","iso3":"wld","primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T16:03:07+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212748","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Afrique de l\u2019Ouest et centrale : Derniers \u00e9v\u00e9nements en bref (12 - 18 mai 2026)","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":49,"name":"Cameroon","shortname":"Cameroon","iso3":"cmr","location":{"lat":4.81,"lon":12.21}},{"id":149,"name":"Mali","shortname":"Mali","iso3":"mli","location":{"lat":17.35,"lon":-1.25}},{"id":174,"name":"Niger","shortname":"Niger","iso3":"ner","location":{"lat":17.43,"lon":9.4}}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:48:00+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212747","score":1,"fields":{"title":"West and Central Africa: Latest Events at a glance (12 - 18 May 2026)","country":[{"id":75,"name":"Democratic Republic of the Congo","shortname":"DR Congo","iso3":"cod","location":{"lat":-4.03833,"lon":21.7587},"primary":true},{"id":49,"name":"Cameroon","shortname":"Cameroon","iso3":"cmr","location":{"lat":4.81,"lon":12.21}},{"id":149,"name":"Mali","shortname":"Mali","iso3":"mli","location":{"lat":17.35,"lon":-1.25}},{"id":174,"name":"Niger","shortname":"Niger","iso3":"ner","location":{"lat":17.43,"lon":9.4}}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:46:39+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212746","score":1,"fields":{"title":"R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo, Kinshasa : Compte Rendu de la R\u00e9union de Coordination sur la r\u00e9ponse logistique dans la riposte \u00e0 la Maladie \u00e0 Virus Ebola - COUSP et Cluster Logistique, 19 mai 2026","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":"Logistics Cluster"},{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:40:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212744","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Funding cuts led to delayed detection of deadly Ebola outbreak in DRC","body":"- Suspected Ebola cases have risen sharply from 246 to 500 in just 96 hours across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, representing an increase of 103% over three days.\n- The last two major Ebola outbreaks caused by the Zaire strain, for which a vaccine is available, infected more than 32,000 people and killed over 13,600.\n- Before 2025, US government funding supported IRC frontline health, surveillance, and outbreak preparedness activities across eastern DRC.\n- Major funding cuts beginning in March 2025 led IRC to reduce programming from five to two areas of Ituri; the epicentre of the current outbreak.\n\n**Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, May 19, 2026** \u2014 Weakened disease surveillance systems following severe health funding cuts in eastern DRC are contributing to the rapid escalation of the latest Ebola outbreak, with suspected cases rising from 246 to 500 in just 96 hours, the IRC warns. The outbreak, affecting eastern DRC and Uganda, involves the rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, which currently has no licensed vaccine or targeted treatment.\n\nBefore 2025, the US Government funded a range of IRC frontline health and outbreak preparedness activities across eastern DRC, including treatment for communicable and non-communicable diseases, disease surveillance, and the construction and rehabilitation of water, sanitation, and infection prevention and control infrastructure. This included waste management areas, triage zones, handwashing stations, showers, and latrines critical to safely managing infectious disease outbreaks. However, much of this funding ended for NGOs in March 2025. Following these funding cuts, IRC programming has been reduced from five health areas in Ituri province, where this outbreak began, to only two health areas.\n\n**Heather Reoch Kerr, IRC\u2019s Country Director for DRC, said,**\n\n\u201cFunding cuts have left the region dangerously exposed. The sharp rise in reported cases over the last few days reflects the reality that surveillance systems are now catching up with transmission that has likely been occurring for some time. We fear the true scale of transmission may be significantly higher than current figures suggest, and we are likely to continue seeing case numbers rise over the coming two to four weeks. We are particularly concerned about geographic spread and are carefully monitoring high-risk locations in South Kivu, Uganda, and South Sudan.\n\n\u201cPreparedness in high-risk areas is critical to disrupting transmission before the outbreak spreads further. Years of underinvestment and recent funding cuts have left many health facilities without adequate protective equipment, surveillance capacity, or frontline support needed to respond quickly and safely. Certain activities previously supported by donor funding, including the provision of PPE kits to health facilities, have been significantly reduced, and today many facilities in affected areas are operating without basic protective supplies.\u201d\n\nThe DRC faces a longstanding humanitarian crisis, ranking seventh on the IRC\u2019s Emergency Watchlist and appearing on the Watchlist consecutively for the past decade. The outbreak is unfolding amid ongoing insecurity and displacement across eastern DRC, conditions that significantly complicate outbreak response efforts, limit humanitarian access, and increase the risk of cross-border spread.\n\nAs world leaders gather at the World Health Assembly this week, the IRC is urging governments and donors to increase investment in frontline healthcare, particularly primary healthcare systems, surveillance networks, infection prevention and control measures, outbreak preparedness, and community-based detection and awareness-raising in fragile and conflict-affected states.\n\nDrawing on its extensive experience supporting Ebola and infectious disease responses across the continent, the IRC has launched a response in DRC, including the distribution of critical protective equipment. In Uganda, the IRC is working alongside the Ministry of Health at border areas to coordinate response efforts and support infection prevention and control activities, including screening people crossing the border.\n\n## **Media contacts**\n\nMadiha Raza\n\nInternational Rescue Committee\n\n**madiha.raza@rescue.org**\n\nIRC Global Communications\n\n**communications@rescue.org**","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":"International Rescue Committee"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:33:03+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212741","score":1,"fields":{"title":"WFP Central African Republic Country Brief, May 2026","body":"135,417 people assisted in March\u2013April 2026 (54% female)\n\n721.83 mt food distributed between March\u2013April 2026\n\nUSD 0.9 M cash transferred between March\u2013April 2026\n\nUSD 36.7 M required in the next six months (May\u2013October 2026)\n\n**KEY HIGHLIGHTS**\n\n\u2022 Severe funding shortfalls are constraining WFP\u2019s ability to meet rising humanitarian needs, as 2.3 million people are projected to face acute food insecurity in 2026.\n\n\u2022 Protection of human capital requires sustained investment in nutrition, school feeding, and resilience, as resource constraints threaten continuity of services. Scaling integrated approaches linking food, cash, nutrition, livelihoods, and systems strengthening is essential to prevent further deterioration while supporting recovery and long-term stability.\n\n\u2022 Sustained partner support is critical to preserve supply chains, maintain humanitarian presence, and avoid prolonged response disruptions that could take months to reverse.","country":[{"id":54,"name":"Central African Republic","shortname":"CAR","iso3":"caf","location":{"lat":6.57,"lon":20.48},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"World Food Programme"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:09:55+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212740","score":1,"fields":{"title":"UNHCR CORE Middle East Situation - as of 19 May 2026","body":"**Overview**\n\nEscalating hostilities across Asia and the Middle East have led to a deterioration in the humanitarian situation. The affected areas already host 24.3 million forcibly displaced people, many of whom, alongside host communities, face signi\ufb01cant protection risks and humanitarian needs.\n\nWith limited funding, many countries are struggling to meet existing needs, making it increasingly difficult to absorb additional pressures and support newly displaced populations.\n\n**Situation Overview**\n\nProtection needs are rising, alongside heightened risk of internal displacement, new cross-border out\ufb02ows, and onward movements to neighbouring countries.\n\nAn inter-agency emergency response has been launched to address urgent needs across the region. In Iran, the Flash Refugee Response Plan targets 1.65 million Afghan and Iraqi refugees and others in need of international protection, alongside 1 million host community members and 150,000 Afghans of other status. In Lebanon, a USD 308.3 million Flash Appeal aims to support 1 million people with lifesaving assistance and protection.","country":[{"id":121,"name":"Iran (Islamic Republic of)","shortname":"Iran","iso3":"irn","location":{"lat":32.57,"lon":54.3},"primary":true},{"id":13,"name":"Afghanistan","shortname":"Afghanistan","iso3":"afg","location":{"lat":33.84,"lon":66.03}},{"id":23,"name":"Armenia","shortname":"Armenia","iso3":"arm","location":{"lat":40.61,"lon":44.66}},{"id":122,"name":"Iraq","shortname":"Iraq","iso3":"irq","location":{"lat":33.05,"lon":43.4}},{"id":137,"name":"Lebanon","shortname":"Lebanon","iso3":"lbn","location":{"lat":33.92,"lon":35.89}},{"id":182,"name":"Pakistan","shortname":"Pakistan","iso3":"pak","location":{"lat":29.97,"lon":69.39}},{"id":226,"name":"Syrian Arab Republic","shortname":"Syria","iso3":"syr","location":{"lat":35.01,"lon":38.51}},{"id":236,"name":"T\u00fcrkiye","shortname":"T\u00fcrkiye","iso3":"tur","location":{"lat":39.06,"lon":35.18}},{"id":237,"name":"Turkmenistan","shortname":"Turkmenistan","iso3":"tkm","location":{"lat":39.12,"lon":59.38}}],"source":[{"name":"UN High Commissioner for Refugees"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:03:12+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212739","score":1,"fields":{"title":"At Security Council, Director Kayoko Gotoh calls for renewed diplomacy and ceasefire in Ukraine (19 May 2026)","body":"## **Director, Europe and Central Asia Division, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, Kayoko Gotoh\u2019s remarks to the Security Council on Ukraine**\n\n## **New York, 19 May 2026**\n\nMr. President,\n\nWell into its fifth year, the war in Ukraine is becoming deadlier by the day.\n\nIn the last week alone, we witnessed one of the largest aerial bombardments of Ukraine since the Russian Federation\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022. Between 13 and 14 May, the Russian Federation reportedly launched more than 1,500 drones and dozens of missiles targeting Ukrainian cities across the country.\n\nIn the deadliest incident of this massive attack, on 14 May, a Russian missile reportedly flattened a nine-story apartment block in Kyiv's Darnytskyi district. Twenty-four people, including three girls aged 12, 15 and 17, were reportedly killed. At least 48 others, including two children, were reportedly injured.\n\nOn 13 May, strikes on more than twenty localities across Ukraine, including in western regions, reportedly resulted in numerous civilian casualties.\n\nThese large-scale attacks have continued daily, including in Dnipro and Odesa, resulting in further civilian casualties and damage to critical civilian infrastructure.\n\nLast month alone, at least 238 civilians were killed and 1,404 injured in Ukraine.\n\nThis represents the highest monthly number of civilian casualties recorded since July 2025. It also reflects a continuing pattern of rising civilian harm.\n\nSince February 2022, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has verified that at least 15,850 civilians, including 791 children, have been killed in Ukraine. Another 44,809, including 2,752 children, have been injured. Actual figures are likely significantly higher.\n\nMr. President,\n\nInside the Russian Federation, reported Ukrainian strikes have also led to increasing civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, including to residential buildings.\n\nJust this Sunday, 17 May, four people were reportedly killed in large-scale Ukrainian strikes across the Russian Federation, including in Moscow.\n\nEarlier, in an attack on 15 May, four people, including a child, were reportedly killed in Ryazan.\n\nWe strongly condemn all attacks against civilian and civilian infrastructure, wherever they occur. As we have repeatedly underscored, such attacks are prohibited under international humanitarian law and must end immediately.\n\nMr. President,\n\nLast week, United Nations personnel in Ukraine were involved in two alarming drone-related incidents.\n\nOn 14 May, a United Nations vehicle was struck twice in Kherson, where repeated drone attacks have made life extremely dangerous for civilians. The clearly marked vehicle was part of an inter-agency humanitarian mission, led by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The mission had been notified to the parties well in advance.\n\nThis followed an incident on 12 May, when another clearly marked United Nations vehicle that was part of a World Food Program humanitarian convoy was reportedly hit by a remote-controlled drone in Dnipropetrovsk region.\n\nInternational law, including international humanitarian law, must be respected at all times. Civilians, including humanitarian relief personnel, as well as civilian objects, must be protected at all times.\n\nMy colleague from OCHA will address this in their statement, as the United Nations is working to establish the full facts surrounding these unacceptable incidents.\n\nMr. President,\n\nAmid rising devastation and loss of life, on 9 May, the Secretary-General welcomed the announcement of a three-day ceasefire, from 9 to 11 May, between Ukraine and the Russian Federation.\n\nWe commend the efforts of the United States to facilitate this agreement, which allowed for a brief pause in the large-scale strikes targeting major cities.\n\nHowever, we regret reported violations on both sides throughout the brief truce, mainly along and near the frontline.\n\nWe are also deeply disturbed by the escalation of attacks by the Russian Federation almost immediately following the expiry of the ceasefire.\n\nMr. President,\n\nOn 9 May, the Secretary-General also welcomed the announcement of an agreed exchange of 2,000 prisoners of war between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, mediated by the United States.\n\nAs a first step, 205 prisoners from each side were returned on 15 May.\n\nWe urge the sides to finalize the details and fully implement all phases of the agreed large-scale exchange for the sake of the remaining prisoners and their families.\n\nWe also urge the sides to continue talks towards further exchanges.\n\nSeparately, we remain concerned about the fate of deported and forcibly transferred Ukrainian children. Their prompt and safe return will require consistent engagement by both sides.\n\nLast month, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict visited Ukraine and the Russian Federation as part of the United Nations\u2019 commitment to support these efforts.\n\nI echo the Special Representative\u2019s call that our work must be guided by the lives behind the numbers. Each child\u2019s case is unique and requires an individualized, independent and impartial assessment rooted in the best interest of the child and the preservation of family unity, wherever possible.\n\nMr. President,\n\nOne year has passed since direct negotiations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation resumed.\n\nAlthough direct talks, which are currently paused, have yet to result in a breakthrough, diplomacy has made it possible for thousands of prisoners of war to return home, and for remains of fallen soldiers to be laid to rest.\n\nNegotiations should resume without further delays to prevent further escalation and to make meaningful progress towards a full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire.\n\nDialogue grounded in genuine political will and adherence to the UN Charter, international law and relevant UN resolutions is the only way to achieve a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.\n\nThe United Nations remains ready to support all meaningful efforts to that end.\n\nThank you.","country":[{"id":241,"name":"Ukraine","shortname":"Ukraine","iso3":"ukr","location":{"lat":49.32,"lon":31.32},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:03:08+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212738","score":1,"fields":{"title":"L'Ambassadeur mondial de bonne volont\u00e9 de l'OIM Dimash Qudaibergen appelle \u00e0 un soutien accru en faveur des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s rohingyas","body":"**Cox\u2019s Bazar, 19 mai 2026** \u2013 Au terme d'une visite de deux jours dans les camps de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s rohingyas de Cox's Bazar, l'Ambassadeur mondial de bonne volont\u00e9 de l'OIM Dimash Qudaibergen a encourag\u00e9 la communaut\u00e9 internationale \u00e0 continuer de renforcer son soutien en faveur de plus d'un million de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s rohingyas vivant dans l'un des plus grands sites d'installation de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s au monde.\n\nNeuf ans apr\u00e8s, les r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s rohingyas de Cox's Bazar demeurent dans une situation pr\u00e9caire. Nombreux sont ceux qui d\u00e9pendent enti\u00e8rement de l'aide humanitaire, tandis que les communaut\u00e9s d'accueil et les services sont mis \u00e0 rude \u00e9preuve dans un contexte de d\u00e9ficits de financement importants.\n\n\u00ab Le monde ne doit pas oublier les besoins humanitaires du peuple rohingya. Derri\u00e8re chaque chiffre se cache une histoire de r\u00e9silience, d'espoir et de survie \u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Dimash Qudaibergen. \u00ab La force des personnes que j'ai rencontr\u00e9es est v\u00e9ritablement inspirante, et c'est un immense honneur pour moi d'avoir pu rencontrer les communaut\u00e9s et les \u00e9quipes humanitaires qui \u0153uvrent chaque jour \u00e0 la protection de la dignit\u00e9 humaine. \u00bb\n\nAu cours de sa visite du 18 au 19 mai 2026, Dimash a rencontr\u00e9 des familles de r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s rohingyas, des jeunes volontaires et des travailleurs humanitaires de premi\u00e8re ligne afin de t\u00e9moigner directement des d\u00e9fis quotidiens auxquels font face les communaut\u00e9s d\u00e9plac\u00e9es, ainsi que de la r\u00e9ponse humanitaire en cours soutenue par l'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) des Nations Unies, en coordination avec le gouvernement du Bangladesh, les agences des Nations Unies et les partenaires humanitaires.\n\nSoulignant la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 urgente d'une solidarit\u00e9 internationale soutenue, Dimash a insist\u00e9 sur l'importance de la poursuite de l'aide humanitaire, notamment l'acc\u00e8s \u00e0 l'abri, aux soins de sant\u00e9, \u00e0 des sources d'\u00e9nergie de cuisson plus propres, \u00e0 l'eau, \u00e0 l'assainissement et aux services d'hygi\u00e8ne, \u00e0 la protection ainsi qu'au renforcement des comp\u00e9tences. Il a \u00e9galement salu\u00e9 la g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9 et la r\u00e9silience des communaut\u00e9s d'accueil bangladaises qui continuent de soutenir la population rohingya.\n\nDurant la visite, Dimash s'est rendu dans plusieurs camps afin de se familiariser avec le travail multisectoriel de l'OIM. Il a rencontr\u00e9 des r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s, des volontaires communautaires et du personnel humanitaire assurant la prestation de services essentiels visant \u00e0 r\u00e9duire les risques de protection et \u00e0 am\u00e9liorer les conditions de vie des familles en situation de d\u00e9placement prolong\u00e9.\n\nAu Centre de m\u00e9moire culturelle rohingya, Dimash a pris part \u00e0 des initiatives port\u00e9es par les communaut\u00e9s elles-m\u00eames, qui utilisent l'art et la narration pour renforcer le bien-\u00eatre et pr\u00e9server l'identit\u00e9 collective. Il a \u00e9galement observ\u00e9 la mani\u00e8re dont les syst\u00e8mes de gestion des sites et de prestation de services permettent aux familles d'acc\u00e9der en toute s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e0 l'assistance, notamment les mesures de pr\u00e9paration aux situations d'urgence li\u00e9es aux incendies, aux pluies de mousson et aux cyclones.\n\nLes \u00e9quipes de l'OIM ont \u00e9galement pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comment les solutions d'\u00e9nergie de cuisson propre contribuent \u00e0 r\u00e9duire les risques sanitaires et la d\u00e9gradation environnementale, tandis que le soutien en mati\u00e8re d'abri et d'articles essentiels renforce la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 lors des conditions m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques extr\u00eames. Dans un \u00e9tablissement de soins de sant\u00e9 primaires, Dimash a appris de quelle fa\u00e7on les services essentiels \u2014 notamment les soins ambulatoires, la vaccination et le soutien en sant\u00e9 mentale \u2014 sont assur\u00e9s par le biais de syst\u00e8mes d'orientation coordonn\u00e9s.\n\nAlors que les besoins humanitaires restent \u00e9lev\u00e9s et que les d\u00e9ficits de financement continuent de se creuser, l'OIM presse la communaut\u00e9 internationale de maintenir et d'\u00e9largir son soutien \u00e0 la r\u00e9ponse en faveur des Rohingyas, afin de veiller \u00e0 ce que les communaut\u00e9s vuln\u00e9rables ne soient pas laiss\u00e9es pour compte.\n\nEn tant qu'Ambassadeur mondial de bonne volont\u00e9, Dimash met \u00e0 profit sa plateforme internationale pour amplifier les messages humanitaires et encourager la compassion et l'action. Sa visite vise \u00e0 sensibiliser la communaut\u00e9 internationale et \u00e0 r\u00e9affirmer l'engagement mondial envers les personnes touch\u00e9es par les crises et le d\u00e9placement.\n\n*Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le [Centre m\u00e9dias de l'OIM](https:\/\/www.iom.int\/media).*","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":"International Organization for Migration"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:03:06+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212737","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Niger : Bulletin mensuel du Cluster-Sant\u00e9 N\u00b02 - 2026","body":"Le Niger fait face \u00e0 une conjonction de chocs humanitaires et sanitaires majeurs li\u00e9s \u00e0 la variabilit\u00e9 climatique, \u00e0 l\u2019ins\u00e9curit\u00e9 persistante et aux d\u00e9placements massifs de populations. Les r\u00e9gions de Dosso, Tillab\u00e9ri, Tahoua et Diffa sont particuli\u00e8rement affect\u00e9es par :  \n \u2022 Des inondations r\u00e9currentes, des \u00e9pisodes de s\u00e9cheresse et une d\u00e9gradation continue des moyens d\u2019existence ;  \n \u2022 Un contexte s\u00e9curitaire instable entra\u00eenant la fermeture d\u2019unit\u00e9s sanitaires, une r\u00e9duction du personnel qualifi\u00e9 et des contraintes d\u2019acc\u00e8s pour les populations ;  \n \u2022 Une augmentation des \u00e9pid\u00e9mies et flamb\u00e9es de maladies telles que le chol\u00e9ra, la rougeole, le paludisme, la dipht\u00e9rie, la coqueluche, les maladies hydriques, l\u2019h\u00e9patite E, ainsi que des cas de poliovirus d\u00e9riv\u00e9 du vaccin (PVDV). Ces conditions se traduisent par une diminution de l\u2019acc\u00e8s aux services de sant\u00e9 essentiels, une rupture de la continuit\u00e9 des soins, et une vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 accrue des femmes, des enfants, des personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes (PDI), des migrants et des communaut\u00e9s h\u00f4tes. Au 30 septembre 2025, le Niger comptait 938 000 personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es (personnes d\u00e9plac\u00e9es internes, r\u00e9fugi\u00e9s et retourn\u00e9s), soit une augmentation de 5,7 % par rapport \u00e0 2024. Les r\u00e9gions de Tillab\u00e9ri, Diffa et Tahoua sont les plus touch\u00e9es. La r\u00e9gion de Dosso, limitrophe de Tillab\u00e9ri au nord et du Nig\u00e9ria au sud, conna\u00eet \u00e9galement une d\u00e9t\u00e9rioration de la situation s\u00e9curitaire depuis 2024. La situation sanitaire est pr\u00e9occupante. Le syst\u00e8me de sant\u00e9 du Niger est confront\u00e9 \u00e0 plusieurs d\u00e9fis dont les principaux sont l\u2019insuffisance de la couverture sanitaire g\u00e9ographique (56,6 pour cent), ce qui prive pr\u00e8s de la moiti\u00e9 de la population de services de sant\u00e9 essentiels notamment dans les zones recul\u00e9es ou difficiles d\u2019acc\u00e8s. En 2025, le pays a fait face \u00e0 des flamb\u00e9es \u00e9pid\u00e9miques simultan\u00e9es, aggravant une situation humanitaire d\u00e9j\u00e0 pr\u00e9occupante, notamment les \u00e9pid\u00e9mies dues aux maladies \u00e9vitables par la vaccination (poliomy\u00e9lite, rougeole, m\u00e9ningite, fi\u00e8vre jaune, dipht\u00e9rie)3. Selon le minist\u00e8re de la Sant\u00e9 et de l\u2019Hygi\u00e8ne Publique, de janvier \u00e0 novembre 2025, plus de 2 400 cas de m\u00e9ningite (dont 109 d\u00e9c\u00e8s) ont \u00e9t\u00e9 enregistr\u00e9s, principalement parmi les enfants, 17 692 cas de rougeole, et 2 168 cas (dont 148 d\u00e9c\u00e8s) de dipht\u00e9rie avec un impact particuli\u00e8rement s\u00e9v\u00e8re sur la population civile4. Une campagne de vaccination r\u00e9active contre la dipht\u00e9rie a \u00e9t\u00e9 organis\u00e9e par le Gouvernement. Il faut noter que de nombreux besoins sanitaires des populations les plus vuln\u00e9rables restent encore non couverts en raison du manque d'acc\u00e8s et d\u2019utilisation des services de sant\u00e9 de base de qualit\u00e9.","country":[{"id":174,"name":"Niger","shortname":"Niger","iso3":"ner","location":{"lat":17.43,"lon":9.4},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Health Cluster"},{"name":"World Health Organization"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T15:01:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212736","score":1,"fields":{"title":"R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo : Pr\u00e9sence operationnelle des partenaires Mai 2026 - Les partenaires qui ont renseign\u00e9 l outil 3W ( Qui Fait Quoi O\u00f9 ? )","body":"Publi\u00e9 en mai 2026, ce document pr\u00e9sente la cartographie de la pr\u00e9sence op\u00e9rationnelle des partenaires du Cluster Sant\u00e9 en R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC). Il met en \u00e9vidence la r\u00e9partition g\u00e9ographique des organisations humanitaires et des acteurs de sant\u00e9 intervenant \u00e0 travers plusieurs provinces, illustrant les zones de forte concentration d\u2019activit\u00e9s ainsi que les zones o\u00f9 la pr\u00e9sence reste limit\u00e9e.\n\nCette cartographie permet de visualiser la diversit\u00e9 des partenaires (ONG nationales et internationales, agences des Nations Unies et autorit\u00e9s sanitaires) et de mieux comprendre les dynamiques d\u2019intervention sur le terrain. Elle constitue un outil cl\u00e9 pour renforcer la coordination, identifier les lacunes en couverture sanitaire et orienter les priorit\u00e9s op\u00e9rationnelles afin d\u2019assurer une r\u00e9ponse plus efficace et \u00e9quitable en faveur des populations affect\u00e9es.\n\n\\[English\\]\n\nPublished in May 2026, this document provides a mapping of the operational presence of Health Cluster partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), based on April 2026 data. It highlights the geographical distribution of humanitarian organizations and health actors across multiple provinces, showing areas with a high concentration of activities as well as locations where presence remains limited.\n\nThis mapping illustrates the diversity of partners (national and international NGOs, UN agencies, and health authorities) and supports a better understanding of operational dynamics in the field. It serves as a key tool to strengthen coordination, identify coverage gaps, and guide operational priorities to ensure a more effective and equitable health response for affected populations.","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":"2026-05-19T14:50:03+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212735","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Trinidad and Tobago: Location Map (2026)","country":[{"id":234,"name":"Trinidad and Tobago","shortname":"Trinidad and Tobago","iso3":"tto","location":{"lat":10.47,"lon":-61.25},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T14:45:11+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212733","score":1,"fields":{"title":"New Figures on Hunger in Sudan: Nearly 19.5 million people are Facing High Levels of Acute Food Insecurity","body":"New data from the IPC \u2014 one of the main global tools for measuring hunger developed by UN agencies \u2014 warns that nearly 19.5 million people in Sudan face high levels of acute food insecurity. Furthermore, it is projected that, by 2026, 825,000 children under the age of five will suffer from severe acute malnutrition, a condition carrying a real risk of death. This represents a 7% increase compared to 2025 and 25% more than before the conflict.\n\nMeanwhile, the report notes that 14 areas of the country are at risk of famine in the coming months. Although this figure is lower than the 20 areas identified in November 2025, the reduction does not reflect an improvement in conditions, but rather a shift in the concentration of risk and limitations in data availability.\n\n\u201cIn daily life, countless families have nothing to eat and survive as best they can, resorting to leaves, grass or animal feed, skipping meals or prioritizing some family members over others,\u201d says Samy Guessabi, director of Action Against Hunger in Sudan. This reflects a context of chronic hunger exacerbated by more than three years of conflict, adverse weather, the collapse of basic services (37% of health services have been destroyed) and the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis (13.5 million displaced people). Almost 34 million people (two-thirds of the population) will need humanitarian aid this year, the highest figure globally and an increase of 3.3 million compared to 2025.\n\n## Fertilizers and Medicines Stranded in the Middle of the Rainy Season\n\nThe new IPC data comes at a particularly worrying time: the rainy season \u2013 from May to September \u2013 which also coincides with the annual period of food scarcity. This is a particularly critical phase, marked by insecurity and heavy rainfall, which disrupts markets, reduces agricultural production and hinders access to food and essential services.\n\nCompounding this situation is the geopolitical context in the Middle East and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, which are already having an impact on Sudan:\n\nThe Gulf accounts for around 54% of the country\u2019s fertilizer imports, and disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz are further limiting the production of sorghum, a staple of the national diet. It will be essential to closely monitor how this situation develops over the coming months.\n\nVital supplies in limbo: essential medicines from Action Against Hunger have been stranded in logistics warehouses in Dubai due to a lack of flights and the high cost of fuel resulting from the geopolitical tension.\n\n## Action Against Hunger\u2019s Humanitarian Response\n\nTo ensure we can continue our response during the rainy season amidst a complex geopolitical context, our teams have identified alternative routes to keep supplying basic goods despite the tensions in the Strait of Hormuz. Furthermore, we continue to deliver food, medicines and basic healthcare through our mobile clinics to isolated communities unable to access essential services. Last year, the organization helped more than 600,000 people through nutrition, water, health and food security programs.\n\nAction Against Hunger warns that, unless urgent measures are taken, the coming months could be even harder for the people of Sudan. \u201cWithout immediate diplomatic action and increased funding, the rainy season and geopolitical tensions could leave even more people caught between hunger and violence,\u201d warns Guessabi. It is imperative to ensure humanitarian access to the affected areas and to strengthen the protection of the civilian population, humanitarian staff and essential infrastructure damaged by the armed conflict.","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Action Against Hunger"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T14:33:05+00:00"}}},{"id":"4212732","score":1,"fields":{"title":"Sudan Crisis Situation Analysis: (Period: 04\/05\/26 - 10\/05\/26)","body":"Sudan is facing the world\u2019s largest displacement and hunger crisis as the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which began in April 2023, enters its third year. Over 24.6 million people face acute food insecurity, with famine confirmed in el-Fasher (North Darfur) and Kadugli (South Kordofan), while more than 20 additional districts across Darfur and Kordofan remain at critical risk of famine-like conditions. Fatality estimates remain highly contested due to limited access and verification challenges. The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded approximately 29,582 deaths by October 2024, while media reporting by BBC News and The New York Times in October 2025 suggests the true death toll may exceed 150,000 people. The humanitarian toll on children remains especially severe, with millions exposed to acute malnutrition and elevated mortality risks, as highlighted in reporting by Reuters in April 2026.  \n\nThe health system has largely collapsed in conflict-affected areas, with more than 70% of facilities non-operational. Cholera has spread across all 18 states, with over 113,000 cases and at least 3,000 deaths reported since 2024. Displacement continues to rise, with more than 12 million people forced from their homes\u2014approximately 9.5 million internally displaced and over 3 million seeking refuge in neighboring countries\u2014making Sudan the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis.  \n\nMilitarily, the conflict has expanded significantly since late 2025 and into early 2026. The RSF consolidated control over Darfur following the fall of el-Fasher in October 2025 and advanced eastward into Kordofan, capturing the SAF\u2019s 22nd Division base in Babanusa and taking control of the strategic Heglig oil field on December 8, disrupting oil production and state revenues. By early 2026, fighting had intensified across Kordofan, with Kadugli and Dilling coming under siege and large civilian populations trapped under famine conditions. A drone strike on a kindergarten and hospital in Kalogi in December 2025 killed at least 114 people, including 63 children, while a separate attack killed six UN peacekeepers, underscoring the escalating risks to civilians and humanitarian personnel.  \n\nEthnic violence continues to escalate, particularly in Darfur, with documented patterns of widespread sexual and gender-based violence. A women\u2019s rights monitoring network has verified 1,294 incidents of SGBV since April 2023, with the majority attributed to RSF-affiliated actors. Despite sustained diplomatic pressure, including US and UK sanctions targeting RSF leaders and associated networks, as well as continued efforts around a Quartet-backed ceasefire framework, fighting has persisted into 2026 with no durable political settlement in sight.  \n\nThe conflict is also increasingly destabilizing neighboring countries, with growing refugee flows and cross-border insecurity placing additional strain on regional systems. The World Food Programme has warned of severe funding shortfalls since early 2026, with the risk of further ration cuts and pipeline breaks if emergency financing is not secured. As of April 2026, Sudan remains in an entrenched conflict with deepening humanitarian collapse, rising regional risks, and limited prospects for a near-term political resolution without urgent and coordinated international intervention.","country":[{"id":220,"name":"Sudan","shortname":"Sudan","iso3":"sdn","location":{"lat":15,"lon":30},"primary":true}],"source":[{"name":"Data Friendly Space"}],"date":{"created":"2026-05-19T14:25:40+00:00"}}}]}