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Since 2022 Ukraine has endured nearly 2,000 attacks on schools, with over 270 this year alone. Air‑raid alarms now consume up to a quarter of classroom time for more than 560,000 pupils, while a recent strike on a school shelter killed at least 29 civilians.
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WHO Director‑General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says fresh drone strikes in Amhara and Tigray have killed civilians, including a newborn, and are pushing an already fragile health system toward collapse as hospitals face staff, medicine and ambulance shortages.
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Over 300,000 people remain displaced in Lebanon while a UN‑backed $50 million winter appeal seeks to protect nine million vulnerable individuals across Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria and Lebanon.
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A drone hit Nyala’s market on Oct. 26, 2026, killing five children and injuring two, while the conflict has already harmed more than 400 children across Sudan this year.
Food & water
The IPC warns that over 28 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are in acute food insecurity, with numbers set to rise as conflict, a record Ebola outbreak and looming El Niño impacts strain livelihoods.
Climate & resilience
A UN report finds 252 million hectares are being restored in 149 countries, creating over a million green jobs, but annual financing must rise from $64 billion to $296 billion to achieve 2030 targets.
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A UN special rapporteur reports at least 8,384 civilian deaths since the 2021 coup, with the military’s “Four Cuts” doctrine and a growing illicit economy blocking aid and financing further violence.
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A US‑brokered ceasefire in Oleshky, Ukraine, offers a brief window for safe evacuation, yet repeated drone strikes on humanitarian vehicles and power outages keep civilians in peril.
Climate & resilience
UN agencies report that climate‑driven warming has already cut the ocean’s carbon‑absorption capacity by approximately six per cent, weakening its role in soaking up around 30 per cent of human CO₂ and about 90 per cent of excess heat, and call for expanded ocean monitoring, blue‑carbon ecosystems and support for vulnerable island nations.
Humanitarian aid
A year after the Category‑5 storm that hit more than half of Jamaica’s population, the Jamaica Red Cross has assisted over 91,000 people, but many families remain displaced and livelihoods are still fragile.
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A year after Hurricane Melissa hit eastern Cuba, the Cuban Red Cross has helped over 35,000 vulnerable people, but prolonged blackouts keep straining health care, water and food security, while an under‑funded IFRC appeal limits further recovery.
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In Mari El, the Russian Red Cross has partnered with survivor Tatyana Sizhuk to build a peer‑counselling network that offers emotional and practical support to women battling breast cancer, extending care from hospital corridors to remote villages.
