Seventeen Point Eight Million: IOM's 2025 Reach and the Budget That's Contracting

A UN-backed assessment finds malnutrition rising across Afghanistan — an estimated 21.9 million people in need — while the country's 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan stands only 26 per cent funded.

New displacement across Sudan's Kordofan region climbed from 132,000 people in February to over 219,000 by late June, IOM reports, as fighting spreads to new towns and donor funding fails to keep pace.

Over 3,200 Palestinians have been displaced across the West Bank in 2026 by settler attacks and demolitions — an average of 17 people per day, double the rate of the preceding three years. New humanitarian assessments reveal how movement restrictions and legal barriers have become the infrastructure of an ever-narrowing humanitarian space.

Three months after Category 5 Cyclone Maila, a Pacific Humanitarian Team analysis compares what 14 organisations claim about their accountability systems with what 595 displaced households actually experienced.

WHO Europe convened an emergency call with 41 member states on July 6 as another heatwave built over the Atlantic. A preliminary model puts the June wave’s excess deaths near 20,400. The sharpest finding: fewer than half of those states had a national heat-health action plan when it arrived.

When the UN’s Health Cluster raised an alert for a chickenpox surge across Gaza in late June, it was tracking 9,300 cases across more than 130 health facilities in less than two weeks. The disease is not new. The conditions that made it an emergency are.

With 1,561 confirmed cases and 506 deaths across the DRC and Uganda, the largest Bundibugyo epidemic on record is accelerating — precisely as CDC defunding empties the laboratories and contact tracers that stopped sixteen previous outbreaks.

Four months after a lahar flood cut off water to eleven villages, Indonesia’s national disaster agency has commissioned 33 kilometres of new pipeline — just as BMKG warns of eleven months of El Niño-driven drought ahead.

At least 21 killed, 90 injured, an ambulance station struck — and three million residents spending up to eleven hours in shelters.

The 30th Asia Pacific Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine (APSCCEM) 2026 arrives at The Patra Bali, Kuta, July 28 – August 2 — generative AI at the bedside, teletrauma, drone-assisted response and humanitarian collaboration, three decades on.