10 November 2025 — In northern Ethiopia, Ayenew looks after his daughter with a disability, and Tarik faces life alone in darkness. Living in remote, forgotten villages, both have discovered a lifeline through the Norwegian Refugee Council’s (NRC) multi-purpose cash assistance.
In Adi-Goshu, a remote village caught between the Tigray and Amhara regions, the gunfire has stopped, but the suffering continues.
Alphonsine sits on the spot where her home once stood before the floods tore through her community in Rumonge. Photo: IOM 2025/Kenny B. Irakoze
Rumonge, Burundi, 10 November 2025 – In the dead of night, the waters of Lake Tanganyika broke into Alphonsine’s home, swallowing everything in their path. Within hours, floods triggered by El Niño had destroyed her house, her business, and the life she had built, along with those of thousands of others.
“We woke up completely submerged and surrounded by water,” recalls Alphonsine. “We ran for our lives. A few days later, our house was gone – completely destroyed and swept away as if it had never existed. We lost everything.”
(UN News)* —South Sudan is entering a period of rising instability marked by political polarisation, renewed armed clashes, and severe humanitarian strain, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Tuesday [].
A “breaking point is becoming visible” in the peace process, they cautioned, as core commitments under a landmark 2018 peace agreement stall or go into reverse.
(UN News)* — In war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war and simply being a woman there is “a strong predictor” of hunger, violence and death, the UN’s gender equality agency warned on Tuesday [].
“Women speaking to us from El Fasher, the heart of Sudan’s latest catastrophe, tell us that they’ve endured starvation…displacement, rape and bombardment,” Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, told reporters in Geneva
“Pregnant women have given birth in the streets as the last remaining maternity hospitals were looted and destroyed.”
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