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(UN News)* — The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) warn of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen in 16 countries and territories between now and May 2026, putting millions of lives at risk.
(UN News)* — More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.
(UN News)* — Floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms are forcing millions from their homes every year. Most never cross a border; they remain internally displaced yet uprooted all the same. But experts warn that in the not-so-distant future, entire nations could disappear beneath rising seas or become uninhabitable through drought.
Woumpou, Mauritania – On a humid October afternoon in Woumpou, Kadia stands where her front yard used to be. Around her, the ground is still damp, the air thick with the smell of mud.
In Mauritania, communities are working to preserve their way of life as the climate becomes increasingly unpredictable. Photo: IOM/Alexander Bee
She points to a dark line along her neighbors’ walls – a mark left by the floods that came without warning. Families had only minutes to escape before the water swallowed everything.
“Everything happened so fast,” she says. “We lost everything in a matter of hours.”
GENEVA – As temperatures start to drop in many regions, millions of refugees and people displaced within their own countries are facing a gruelling winter with far less assistance as humanitarian giving plummets, and many will be left with little to protect them from the bitter cold, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned on 11 November 2025.
(Washington, DC) – The Venezuelan nationals the United States government sent to El Salvador in March and April 2025 were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence, Human Rights Watch and Cristosal said in a report released on 12 November 2025.
The 81-page report, “‘You Have Arrived in Hell’: Torture and Other Abuses Against Venezuelans in El Salvador’s Mega Prison,” provides a comprehensive account of the treatment of these people in El Salvador.
The United States is dusting off its old regime-change playbook in Venezuela. Although the slogan has shifted from “restoring democracy” to “fighting narco-terrorists,” the objective remains the same, which is control of Venezuela’s oil.
The methods followed by the US are familiar: sanctions that strangle the economy, threats of force, and a $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as if this were the Wild West.
Pics from US military video shows a purported Tren de Aragua “drug-carrying” boat being tracked and hit by a US missile. Pressenza.
The US is addicted to war. With the renaming of the Department of War, a proposed Pentagon budget of $1.01 trillion, and more than 750 military bases across some 80 countries, this is not a nation pursuing peace.
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
“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 [].
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