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News and context on the challenges shaping lives around the world, and the efforts helping communities move forward.
With only Kerem Shalom open for supplies and winter approaching, the WHO warns that delays in medicines, prosthetics and shelter risk disease outbreaks for nearly two million Gazans.
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Decades after 67 US nuclear tests, Marshallese families still face cancer and stigma, while Ukraine’s war has killed nearly 1,400 civilians and crippled health services, and new breast‑cancer centres bring advanced diagnostics to the West Bank.
Humanitarian aid
The UN High Commissioner reports over 15,000 civilians killed or injured in Ukraine this year, a 55% rise from 2025, alongside surging sexual violence, drone attacks and collapsing basic services.
Children & education
UNHCR reports that 13.1 million refugee children were of school‑age in 2025, yet 5.8 million remain out of school. Cuts threaten progress in primary, secondary and higher education, with enrollment gaps and gender disparities widening.
Humanitarian aid
Flash floods that killed over 1,450 people in northern Nepal have disrupted livelihoods far beyond the flood zone, threatening 21,400 workers, informal earners and a trade corridor that carries about a fifth of Nepal’s imports from China.
Health
Intensified clashes have left about 60% of Yemen's health facilities functional, depleted medical stocks and displaced over 180,000 people, raising cholera, measles and malnutrition concerns.
Humanitarian aid
UN Acting Special Coordinator Ramiz Alakbarov says Gazans still lack clean water, face shelter shortages and need education and livelihood support, while restrictions and West Bank tensions complicate aid delivery.
Humanitarian aid
Fresh fighting in Baidoa has killed and injured children, damaged a health clinic and left 26,000 people in catastrophic food insecurity amid Somalia’s broader malnutrition emergency.
Humanitarian aid
UN teams in Gaza are racing to secure flood‑prone areas while women searching for disappeared relatives in Mexico face lethal attacks, and Latvia’s new alcohol rules have cut heavy‑drinking deaths by 27%.
Displacement
Malaysia deported 1,476 people to Myanmar despite UNHCR’s warning that returns could expose them to persecution, while a market airstrike in Rakhine killed dozens, prompting calls for accountability.
Health
With more than 8,000 confirmed Ebola cases and a 48% fatality rate, the outbreak in Ituri province is compounded by the forced exodus of thousands from Kigonze displacement camp amid escalating violence.
Humanitarian aid
A UN‑led briefing highlighted a deadly airstrike on a Myanmar market, new CERF drought funding for three African nations, and a sharp rise in settler attacks displacing thousands in the West Bank.
