News Monitor

The health system in Port-au-Prince remains severely affected by ongoing violence. In May, 30 hospitals and health centers were closed, and insecurity still hinders access to health.

In addition to 68.3 million people displaced by conflict and violence, an increase of 49 per cent from five years ago, 7.7 million persons were internally displaced at the end of 2023 due to natural disasters.

While detailed assessments continue in the camps, initial reports indicate nearly 1,200 shelters have been destroyed or damaged, displacing an estimated 2,000 refugees.

Almost 52,000 under-fives in 84 drought-hit districts are expected to fall into severe wasting – the deadliest form of malnutrition – within the next year if urgent preventive measures are not applied.

Desperate shortages of essentials have left the enclave’s most vulnerable struggling to carry on amid stifling heat, heavy fighting, disease spread and a breakdown in law and order, UN warned.

Escalating gang violence in Haiti have forced a record 578,074 internal displacements in 2024, making it the country with the largest number of displacements due to crime-related violence.

The Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack researchers recorded the highest numbers of attacks on education in Palestine, Ukraine, and DR Congo over the past two years.

According to initial reports, an estimated 7,794 refugees have been affected across the 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar, with an estimated 1,191 shelters damaged or destroyed and 10 people killed.

Human Rights Watch’s analysis of satellite imagery shows an increase in graves in at least six cemeteries in the city from May 9 to June 12, notably in Abu Shouk camp.

In Chad, WFP aims to reach more than two million people, including refugees, with emergency lean season assistance but with funding tight, especially in South Sudan, it can only support the hungriest.

OHCHR published an assessment on six emblematic attacks by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza last year that led to high numbers of civilian fatalities and widespread destruction of civilian objects.

An estimated 315 people have been killed and 188 injured, while more than 293,200 people have been displaced and approximately 350,000 students are out of school.

To honour 1,000 days of women and girls’ resistance, Malala Fund is announcing more than $1.5 million in new funding to 13 organisations working to keep girls learning.

The report finds that children under five years old are especially vulnerable, with health effects including premature birth, low birth weight, asthma and lung diseases.

Growing hunger and limited tools to address the world’s largest displacement crisis are urgent concerns as famine looms, the head of OCHA in the beleaguered African nation said.

The region is in the grips of a severe food crisis, with nearly 55 million people projected to face acute hunger during the lean season, a fourfold increase from 2019.

Nearly 580,000 people are internally displaced. In addition to the displacement in and around Port-au-Prince, the violence and siege imposed by armed groups have pushed more people to nearby provinces.

Overall, 73% of people across 52 countries surveyed agreed that people should be able to take refuge in other countries, including their own. However, support has dampened since the peak in 2022.

The environmental impacts of the war in Gaza are unprecedented, states UNEP, exposing the community to rapidly growing soil, water and air pollution and risks of irreversible damage to ecosystems.

While this approach is not new and National Societies and other organizations have matched refugees with host families, it has never before been done on this scale.