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Daily Wrap 13 November 2025
 

 

 

Natural disasters trigger the displacement of millions of people each year.
From Haiti to Ethiopia: voices of climate displacement at COP30

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.

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Climate and Environment
A coastal community in the Philippines.
World News in Brief: Typhoon generation, disability rights in Myanmar, new refugee-led climate fund

The strongest typhoon to make landfall this year in the Philippines has impacted a staggering 1.7 million children – and more than five million people overall.

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Climate and Environment
A woman who fled El Fasher in Darfur carries aid in a displacement camp in Tawila.
Families in Sudan 'running out of time' as hunger spreads

More than 21 million people in Sudan, 45 per cent of the population, are not getting enough to eat as the war between rival militaries continues, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). 

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Humanitarian Aid
Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, briefs the Fourth Committee of the General Assembly.
Ending UNWRA services would imperil political way forward: Lazzarini

Lack of sufficient funds is jeopardizing the ability of the UN relief agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) to operate, the head of the agency said on Thursday. 

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Migrants and Refugees
Children in Thailand are enduring extremely hot temperatures and drought
Protecting lives in a warming world: Health takes centre stage at COP30

Hailed by Brazil as "a crucial moment to demonstrate the strength of the health sector in global climate action," a blueprint for global health systems to adapt to rising temperatures and extreme weather has been launched at the COP30 UN climate conference.

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Climate and Environment
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (file)
Ethiopia: UN supports response to potentially deadly virus outbreak

The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting Ethiopia as the country faces a suspected viral haemorraghic fever outbreak in the south, the UN agency said on Thursday. 

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Health
A girl looks over the destruction of Gaza City.
Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft

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. 

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Peace and Security
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