South Sudan + 1 more
The evacuation order for the northern border town of Akobo East, which forced thousands of people - including all aid agency staff – to leave at the weekend, has deepened catastrophic conditions.
Lebanon is approaching a breaking point as displacement accelerates, with one in every seven people now displaced in the first ten days of the escalation, says the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Lebanon + 12 more
Calculations by Save the Children using UN population data showed the extent to which education for children has been impacted, with schools damaged, closed or repurposed as shelters.
Iran + 1 more
Between 600,000 and one million households are now temporarily displaced, representing up to 3.2 million people. Most are fleeing major urban areas towards the north and rural areas to seek safety.
More than 3.3 million people are struggling to find enough food, with families in the Far North, North and East regions already skipping meals, selling livestock or taking on debt just to survive.
Afghanistan + 2 more
This year, about 110,000 Afghans have returned from Iran, with roughly 1,700 each day since the onset of the conflict. We remain concerned developments in the region could trigger larger movements.
Fifteen years into the conflict, food insecurity is threatening many of the country's youngest. Nearly 6.4 million under-fives suffer from acute malnutrition across the northern regions.
MSF is calling for a massive scale-up of lifesaving aid and unhindered access amid the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza, where lives continue to be lost due to sustained violence and aid restrictions.
As 2025 began, the humanitarian system entered a year of profound reckoning. At the start of the year, the global humanitarian community set out to assist more than 180 million people affected by conflict, climate shocks and displacement. Almost immediately, however, those ambitions collided with unprecedented budget cuts across the humanitarian system, forcing painful trade-offs, reduced...
