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Hawaye Ibrahim, escaped to Chad to find safety for her children, after her husband was shot and killed in Sudan’s Darfur region. Fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, has quickly spread to Darfur in recent weeks displacing tens of thousands of people. UNHCR

Despite the protracted challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic, political instability and funding shortfalls, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East has continued to deliver its essential work to provide health care services to Palestine refugees in 2022 across the Agency’s five fields of operation Jordan, Lebanon, the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, Gaza and Syria. UNTV CH

According to the World Food Programme, cyclone Mocha, the strongest storm to strike the Bay of Bengal in over a decade, has wreaked havoc on millions of vulnerable people, particularly in Myanmar. WFP

Humanitarians expressed deep concern for Myanmar’s most vulnerable communities after the “nightmare scenario” created by the passage of Cyclone Mocha. UNTV CH

Following a high-level field mission with the UN Refugees Agency to the border regions of Chad with Sudan, where 60,000 refugees have arrived recently, Education Cannot Wait’s Executive Director Yasmine Sherif announced a US$3 million First Emergency Response grant. ECW

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has deployed teams and, with partners, has rushed to deliver aid to new arrivals in Chad who are escaping conflict in Sudan. Another 30,000 refugees have been monitored arriving in recent days in Chad, bringing the total number moving from Sudan to Chad in recent weeks to 60,000. UNHCR

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Friday that cyclone Mocha has intensified very quickly in the warm waters of the Bay of Bengal and could bring major impacts both ahead and after landfall for potentially hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people when it hits Myanmar and Bangladesh this weekend. UNTV CH

The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) today issued an advisory in which it urges states to keep borders open to people fleeing ongoing hostilities in Sudan and to suspend negative asylum decisions for Sudanese nationals outside the country who cannot return because of the conflict. UNTV CH

UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell travelled to eastern Kenya to meet families and refugees struggling to recover from the worst climate-induced drought to hit the region in 40 years. UNICEF

Heavy fighting and insecurity has driven tens of thousands to flee Sudan in search of safety in neighboring countries. In Chad, UNHCR and its partners have deployed emergency teams along the eastern border with Sudan to respond to urgent needs for protection and humanitarian assistance. UNHCR