On 24 May 2024, at 03:00 local time, heavy rains contributed to a landslide in Lagaip-Porgera district, Enga province, with the most severe effects in and around Yambali Ward. Up to 8m of soil and rubble buried people, homes, infrastructure, and farmland and damaged the sole road leading to Yambali. 

This report provides an update on the deteriorating situation in Rafah, particularly after the airstrikes of 26–28 May. This report follows the ACAPS briefing note Palestine: operations in Rafah from 11 May 2024.

This report highlights the key contributing factors and aggravating conditions that can increase the global prevalence of cholera, focusing particularly on the impact of the global OCV shortage that is heightening humanitarian needs among affected populations and those vulnerable to spread. 

This report analyses the Ukraine Severity Model, which regularly tracks contextual, humanitarian, and conflict-related data available from diverse sources and consolidates these, providing a severity score for each administrative region (oblast) of Ukraine. The focus of the analysis is between early 2022 and March 2024.
 

Niger has become a country of transit and destination for people on the move. Until 3 May, Niger was hosting around 417,000 refugees and asylum seekers, primarily from Nigeria (over 57%) and Mali (over 31%), with the remaining hailing from various other countries, including Burkina Faso, Chad, and Sudan.

Since 15 April 2023, clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group, have caused widespread displacement. IDPs are moving northwards into River Nile and Northern states, which offer security and potential routes to leave the country altogether. 

Above-average precipitation and extreme rainfall events, mainly attributable to the combined effects of El Niño and climate change, have been triggering floods, flash floods, and mudslides in 25 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces since the end of February 2024.

Since the start of the March-April-May (MAM) rainy season, Kenya has experienced heavy rainfall, resulting in widespread floods and landslides in various regions. 42 of the country’s 47 counties have been affected by the floods, with Homa Bay, Kajiado, Mandera, Nairobi, and Nakuru being the most severely affected as of 6 May. 

Since 27 April, the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, and Santa Catarina have been affected by heavy rains. As at 12 May, at least 143 people had died, 806 were injured, 130 were still missing, and almost 54,000 had been displaced.

This report aims to inform humanitarian programming in Colombia, including ACAPS’s donors, to anticipate the potential developments derived from the compounding of climate hazards and economic vulnerability. 

From October 2023 to January 2024, precipitation fell over 30% below average levels. By mid-February, drought was detected 10 of Timor-Leste’s 14 municipalities: Aileu, Ainaro, Atauro, Baucau, Bobonaro, Covalima, Dili, Manatuto, Oecusse, and Viqueque.

This report analyses the multisectoral impact of Israel’s operations in and forced evacuation of Rafah since 7 May 2024. It emphasises pre-existing needs in Rafah, in locations to which the population of Rafah is being displaced, and across Gaza, all of which will face the impact of the disruption to humanitarian operations in Rafah and the closure of Rafah Crossing.

This report provides an overview of the climate effects (temperature and precipitation anomalies) and consequent humanitarian impact of the El Niño phenomenon in Southern Africa

This report highlights the impact of the conflict that started on 07 October on the SRH rights of the people of Gaza. It aims to consider their immediate needs and challenges, as well as some of the longer-term effects of the lack of SRH services. 

This report aims to decipher the humanitarian impacts of confinements and mobility restrictions in Colombia, incorporating an intersectional approach that considers the gender and ethnic backgrounds of the affected people. 

This analysis is based on changes in the access severity model between 1 January and 31 March 2024, which ACAPS developed using data collected from secondary sources and four interviews with international humanitarian responders conducted between 1–10 April 2024.

More than nine years of conflict in Yemen has left 18.2 million people in need of assistance in one of the largest and most complex humanitarian responses in the world. This report is the third in a series of six localised studies.

This report is released every four months and aims to shed light on emerging issues that have or are likely to have significant social impact on Afghans as well as consequences for the humanitarian response. When possible, the report considers groups with specific vulnerabilities and key themes.

The recent flooding in Kazakhstan that started on 27 March 2024 has become the largest in 80 years. In response, the Government declared a state of emergency on 6 April in ten of the country’s 17 regions, including Abai, Akmola, Aktobe, Atyrau, Karaganda, Kostanay, North Kazakhstan, Pavlodar, Ulytau, and West Kazakhstan.

Since December 2023, the northern region of Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province has seen an escalation in attacks characterised by violence towards civilians and damage to houses, churches, schools, and health centres.