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Sally is an 11-year-old Palestinian child who currently lives in a shelter run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Beach Camp in Gaza City. Sally and her family have not left the northern Gaza Strip at any point during the war.

Since 2019, Dr. Anatolii Yaroslavovych Halushchak has been heading the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care for Polytrauma at Mechnykov hospital in Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s most vital medical institutions.

The chants precede his actual arrival. Women and children sing as Salisu Adamu, a UNICEF-supported mobiliser, and his colleagues go from house to house in the Mairi area of Damaturu, in North-East Nigeria’s Yobe State.

Cameroon is facing one of the world’s most overlooked humanitarian emergencies. According to the Norwegian Refugee Council’s latest Neglected Displacement Crises report, Cameroon now tops the list—highlighting how dire the situation has become for millions affected by conflict, displacement...

In early 2025, Israeli military operations in the Jenin and Tulkarem refugee camps, in the West Bank, forced entire camp populations to flee. Streets were destroyed, homes were raided, and entire neighbourhoods became uninhabitable.

The 10-year long war took a heavy toll on Yemeni people. Now, amidst an even larger crisis affecting the entire Middle East region, they are caught between a rock and a hard place.

Maria is around 40 years old. Together with her family, she lives in a small village just a few dozen kilometres from the front line. Locals used to measure the distance to the nearest large cities — Zaporizhzhia or Dnipro — now they measure how close they are to the positions of Russian troops.

The Rohingya, an ethnic and religious Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar, have endured decades of violence and discrimination. Effectively denied citizenship in their own country, they are one of the largest stateless populations in the world.

It’s the early afternoon in the Kalobeyei refugee settlement, northern Kenya, and Garang has just finished conducting his daily radio show. With EU funding, Film Aid Kenya runs the station as part of its larger network of refugee community radios.

The ongoing conflict in Sudan has forced 15 million people from their homes, with children bearing the brunt of the crisis. As millions face food insecurity, malnutrition and a lack of safe water, urgent lifesaving assistance is needed to protect their futures.

Since January 2025, large-scale military operations have caused widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure in Jenin city, its refugee camp, and neighbouring villages. Hundreds of houses have been destroyed while dozens of schools have been forced to close.

Last year, the world broke its own temperature record. The average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, making 2024 the warmest year to date.

From afar, the trees almost look as if they were decorated with oversized Christmas ornaments. But a closer look reveals a more sobering reality: plastic bags swept up by the wind and caught in their branches.

Since the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan in 2023, the hostilities have pushed over a million displaced people – including Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees – into neighbouring Chad.

‘When I compare her to other children her age, I feel very emotional. I cannot help it.’ Naima is sitting in a quiet room, hidden from the baking midday sun and away from the clamour of hundreds of other mothers and their children. A wide-eyed baby sits in her lap.

In the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, families who have endured years of displacement and hardship now face an even more uncertain future with dwindling resources.

Haiti is struggling with an unprecedented level of violence. Armed groups control more than 85% of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and are expanding their presence in the Artibonite and Centre departments, increasing catastrophic levels of humanitarian needs.

At a time of extraordinary need, with fragile infrastructure still reeling from the 2023 earthquakes and displaced people considering returning home after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the NGO GOAL provides essential humanitarian support.

In Zumbare, a rural village of thatched huts in eastern Zimbabwe, the rooftops shimmer under the heat. Riverbeds have run dry, and the surrounding fields are filled with the skeletal remains of maize stalks that failed to mature.