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An estimated 600 refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers have been stranded in isolated areas on Tunisia’s western borders, likely in the vicinity of Haidra and Djebel Ghorra, since at least 17 March 2025. They were rescued from a boat in the Mediterranean Sea on 16–17 March while trying to reach Italy and then taken to Sfax before being forcibly displaced to remote areas. Security forces have confiscated their personal belongings, including water and telephones. They urgently need protection, food, water, and medical services. Expelling migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to remote areas without access to services has become a trend in Tunisia since at least February 2023, following President Kais Saied’s crackdown on the demographic. Agreements with the EU to manage migration flows have also contributed to worsening the situation. Since then, an unknown number of migrants have died in remote areas near the border with Algeria. (IM 24/03/2025, AJ 22/02/2023, AI 04/10/2024)

On 24 March 2025, a Russian missile and drone attack on Sumy city injured 106 people, including 23 children, in Sumska oblast. Overall, 73 buildings were damaged, including three schools, a kindergarten, a hospital, and 61 residential units. State responders provided immediate emergency, rescue, and psychological support, followed by the restoration of water and gas supply. The people affected require legal, cash, and shelter assistance. Since late February, heightened hostilities in Kursk oblast in Russia has led to a rise in attacks on the communities along the border with Sumska oblast, resulting in casualties; damage to private homes, transportation, and critical infrastructure; and disruptions to water and power supplies. On 13 March, the authorities of Sumska oblast announced a mandatory evacuation of 543 civilians, including children, from eight communities in the Yunakivska and Myropilska hromadas of Sumskyi raion, which are located within 0–10km of the Russian border. (Sumy City Council 25/03/2025, Ukrinform 13/03/2025, ACLED accessed 25/03/2025)

Between mid-February and mid-March 2025, criminal violence in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, displaced over 60,000 people, aggravating an already dire humanitarian situation. Since 11 March alone, more than 23,000 people have been displaced by gang attacks in several neighbourhoods of the capital, including Carrefour-Feuilles, Bas-Peu-de-Chose, Avenue Christophe, Bois-Verna, and Morne-à-Tuf. 88% of these newly displaced people have taken refuge in displacement sites, while others are with host families.
Many people have been displaced multiple times, experiencing livelihood losses, limited access to services, and psychological trauma, leading to increased dependence on humanitarian aid. The newly displaced urgently require humanitarian assistance to access shelter, food, healthcare, and protection – the main providers of which also face reduced US humanitarian aid, limiting their ability to deliver and potentially worsening the conditions of those in need. (IOM 21/02/2025, IOM 18/03/2025, OCHA 21/03/2025)