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News and context on the challenges shaping lives around the world, and the efforts helping communities move forward.
After more than a month in COVID‑19 isolation and the death of her father, a Zambia Red Cross officer used her experience to launch Psychological First Aid training and champion mental health within humanitarian response.
Read the storyClimate & resilience
With extreme heat, historic floods and a strong El Niño, the UN urges stronger emissions cuts, renewable expansion and streamlined climate finance before the November COP31 summit in Türkiye.
Health
Kenya recorded its first Ebola fatality on 5 October, prompting authorities and UN partners to quarantine relatives, health workers and airline passengers while scaling up surveillance to stop community spread.
Humanitarian aid
Over 31,000 children arrived in Europe last year, many unaccompanied and exposed to abuse, while more than 45 million people in the Near East and North Africa confront crisis‑level hunger amid severe funding shortfalls.
Humanitarian aid
Over 700,000 displaced people in Tawila and 65% of Sudan’s displaced population confront severe shortages of health care, food, water and protection while only a fraction of the WHO appeal is funded and sanctions remain in place.
Humanitarian aid
UNDP reports that 68% of Myanmar’s 55 million people now face multidimensional poverty, with health and living‑standard deficits driving over 80% of deprivation and climate risks hitting one‑in‑five households.
Health
The World Health Organization released its inaugural global guidance on child obesity, urging diet, activity and mental‑health support while limiting drugs and surgery, as around 170 million children and adolescents worldwide face the condition.
Humanitarian aid
Three years after the Oct 7 attacks that killed over 1,200 Israelis and saw 251 hostages taken, the UN highlights Gaza’s ongoing devastation, with more than 70,000 dead, 2.1 million displaced and daily attacks hindering aid.
Humanitarian aid
Overnight Russian attacks killed at least 19 people in Chernihiv, including five children, and caused around 25 more deaths in Kremenchuk, Kyiv and Oleksandriia. The UN says 15,280 civilians have been killed or injured this year and urges an end to strikes on civilians and health facilities.
Humanitarian aid
A demolition in East Jerusalem forced 69 Palestinians, many children, from their home, while in Gaza, funding gaps and import bans have left about 500,000 people rationing drinking water, highlighting escalating humanitarian pressures across the occupied territories.
Children & education
Nearly 2,000 children in eastern DRC have lost parents or caregivers and at least 1,062 have died from Ebola, while the virus spreads for the first time to Kenya, prompting urgent regional response.
Health
A lab employee in Irkutsk oblast died under unclear circumstances, prompting WHO to launch testing, contact tracing and a risk assessment for a potential pneumonic plague case.
