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Highlights • Fighting which erupted in Tripoli in August 2018 continued into September leading to the displacement of 5,065 families (25,325 individuals). UNICEF continued its emergency response...

On 28 September, a 7.4 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia triggered a tsunami, affecting approx. 1.5 million people in Sulawesi. Around 71,000 are displaced and access to remote...

Seven years into the conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic, the scale, severity and complexity of needs across the country remain overwhelming. Some 13.1 million people require humanitarian...

Total people in need: 4.4 million Total children (<18) in need: 2.5 million Total people to be reached: 742,700 Total children to be reached: 618,300 Nutrition 268,837 children aged 6 to 59 months...

The 2017/2018 winter period was the fifth consecutive year wherein the main planting season for wheat (October-February) has been compromised due to drought. In 2018, more than two thirds of the...

During the second half of 2017, renewed violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar, drove an estimated 687,000 Rohingya, including 371,000 children, across the border into Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. 5These...

East Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. 1 In 2016, disasters affected more than 86 million people in the region, compared with 40 million people in 2015. 2 In...

The Eastern and Southern Africa region continues to face multiple and more frequent humanitarian crises, including conflict and insecurity, economic shocks, climate change, natural hazards and...

Six years after the armed conflict started in northern Mali, the country remains affected by a protracted humanitarian crisis and a deteriorating security situation. In 2017, the insecurity spread...

The Latin America and Caribbean region is increasingly impacted by natural disasters as well as population movements. In 2017, more than 15.6 million people - including 8 million children were...

Ethiopia The Ethiopian Humanitarian and Disaster Resilience Plan for 2018, currently estimates that 7.9 million people need food and cash assistance, 6.86 million people need water,sanitation and...

Madagascar Cyclones continue to be a major humanitarian concern in Madagascar with a new cyclone season beginning every November. In southern Madagascar, the effects of the El Niño drought continue...

Violence and conflict-related displacement have increased dramatically in Nigeria over the past decade. In the three most directly affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, 7.7 million people...

Yemen is one of the chronically under developed countries facing the probably world's largest, most complex humanitarian crises. Almost the entire country (22.2 million people) needs humanitarian...

Angola Several provinces in Angola are experiencing a nutrition crisis stemming from the combined impacts of an economic downturn, higher basic commodities prices, irregular rainfall, deteriorating...

East Asia and the Pacific East Asia and the Pacific is the most disaster-stricken region in the world. In 2016, disasters affected more than 86 million people in the region, compared with 40 million...

Children in the Central Asia and South Caucasus sub-regions are vulnerable to poorly mitigated natural hazards, under-resourced social services, and weak governance and protection, despite the...

UNICEF seeks $3.6 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in catastrophic humanitarian crises 117 million people living through conflict and disaster lack access to safe...

Violence and conflict-related displacement have increased dramatically in Nigeria over the past decade. In the three most directly affected states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, 7.7 million people...

In 2018, an estimated 2.3 million people, including 1.2 million children, will be affected by one or more of the crises impacting the Niger, including food insecurity, malnutrition, population...