News Monitor

In 2024, at least 5,230 children sustained injuries requiring rehabilitation that is inaccessible due to continued attacks on healthcare, leaving them with a high likelihood of disability.

Children are disproportionately hit by climate change due to their physiological and developmental characteristics. Under-fives bear 88% of the global disease burden associated with climate change.

This is the second cyclone to hit Mozambique in only a month; in Madagascar, Dikeledi resulted in three deaths, 352 people displaced and 750 children out of school.

Conflict in DR Congo has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with nearly 7 million people, including at least 3.5 million children, displaced and one in four people in need of aid.

Each day without a ceasefire risks more children’s futures. Even after one, restoring schools and the physical and mental safety children need to be able to resume learning will be a mammoth task.

The systems providing essential social services are on the brink of a collapse, said UNICEF. We can invest in rebuilding them and provide lifesaving health and nutrition services amid the conflict.

Seismic activity, mostly emanating from the Fentale volcanic complex, continues across parts of Afar and Oromia. The Government is evacuating more than 60,000 people from high-risk areas to safer locations.

Save the Children has already pre-positioned key school stocks and supplies in Sava region and has strengthened the preparedness of the communities, particularly at school level, to cope with cyclone.

On 8 January 2025, an aerial attack in Kyauk Nima Village in Ramree Township reportedly killed more than 40 civilians, and destroyed about 500 homes, with children and women among the casualties.

These attacks have continued in recent months, despite extensive engagements with all stakeholders. MSF has now taken the very difficult decision to suspend all medical activities in the hospital.

Floods, wildfires, and severe thunderstorms are increasingly fuelling the trend of rising losses, while tropical cyclones and earthquakes continue to be a source of loss volatility.

On 8 January, 13 civilians were killed and 110 injured when two aerial bombs struck an industrial facility in Zaporizhzhia city, underscoring the dangers of such weapons in populated areas.

NRC is urging the government and international community to recognize and provide comprehensive humanitarian assistance to all IDPs fleeing their homes due to violence from organized criminal groups.

IOM is re-establishing its presence inside Syria, building on its two decades in Damascus until 2020, and its large response in northwest Syria through cross-border activities over the past decade.

Nasser hospital, Al-Aqsa hospital and European Gaza hospital are on the verge of closure due to a lack of fuel. This situation is threatening the lives of hundreds of patients, including newborns.

“For the children of Gaza, the new year has brought more death and suffering from attacks, deprivation, and increasing exposure to the cold,” said UNICEF's Russell. ”A ceasefire is long overdue."

The UN Refugee Agency has called on states to prioritize life-saving actions as hundreds of Rohingya stateless refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in the region in the first five days of the new year.

UN human rights chief calls for the full implementation of the Security Council's sanctions regime and the arms embargo to prevent the supply of firearms and ammunition to the country.

Cash grants and vouchers for seeds, tools and other critical items are helping families meet immediate needs and longer-term goals after wildfires burned more than 10,000 hectares.

In recent days, the Masisi territory of North Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been the scene of major clashes between the armed group M23/AFC and the Congolese army.

While more than 522,000 people across Syria have returned to their areas of origin after a month of displacement, some 627,000 people remain newly displaced – 42 per cent of them in Idleb.