Archive for December 5th, 2025

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05/12/2025

Arab Region Pushed to Limits by Climate Extremes as 2024 Smashes Heat Records

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — The Arab region is heating at nearly twice the global average, UN weather experts warned on , after 2024 saw unprecedented heat, destructive storms and worsening water scarcity impact some of the world’s most vulnerable communities.
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People across the Arab region including in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, face increasing pressure from climate extremes.
Unsplash/Ali Guddam | People across the Arab region including in the city of Makkah, Saudi Arabia, face increasing pressure from climate extremes.

The World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) first State of the Climate in the Arab Region report paints a stark picture of a region under constant pressure from rising temperatures and increasingly extreme weather.

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05/12/2025

Deadly Storms Sweep South and Southeast Asia, Leaving over 1,600 Dead

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By Vibhu Mishra

(UN News)* — From Sri Lanka’s central highlands to Indonesia’s flood-swollen river basins, a wave of climate-fuelled cyclones and monsoon rains has unleashed one of the deadliest weather patterns south and southeast Asia has seen in years, killing more than 1,600 people, displacing hundreds of thousands and affecting millions.

Cyclone Ditwah triggered landslides in several parts of Sri Lanka, destroying roads and cutting off towns and villages. Pictured here, destroyed houses and shops in Uthuwankanda.
© UNICEF/InceptChange | Cyclone Ditwah triggered landslides in several parts of Sri Lanka, destroying roads and cutting off towns and villages. Pictured here, destroyed houses and shops in Uthuwankanda.
Since mid-November, overlapping tropical storms and intensified monsoon systems have triggered catastrophic flooding and landslides across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Viet Nam.

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05/12/2025

Surge in Violence Pushes Children to the Breaking Point in Northern Mozambique – UNICEF

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Tens of thousands of children displaced as families forced to flee in wake of attacks by armed non-state actors

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UNICEF

NEW YORK/MAPUTO, 5 December 2025 (UNICEF)* – Over 100,000 people, around two thirds of them children, have been displaced in northern Mozambique during the month of November, following attacks against civilians.

The latest wave of displacement follows months of continued and expanding attacks by armed non-state actors in the north of the country, triggering repeated population movements in Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces.

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05/12/2025

Gaza: Pregnant Women Trapped in “a Spiral of Displacement, Bombardment and Acute Hunger”

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UN support helps Gaza mothers give birth amid collapsing health system

Women and girls seek support at a UNFPA-supported safe space in Gaza.
© UNFPA/Yasmeen Sous | Women and girls seek support at a UNFPA-supported safe space in Gaza.
 
(UN News)* — Every week in Gaza, at least 15 women give birth outside any health facility, often without a trained midwife, pain relief or basic medical supplies.
 
Some are forced to deliver alone. Others rely on neighbours with no medical training. For many, childbirth has become a matter of survival.
 
Before the fragile ceasefire got underway in October, the UN reproductive health agency, UNFPA, estimated that 55,000 pregnant women were trapped in “a spiral of displacement, bombardment and acute hunger”, with no reliable access to care.

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