The Friday Humanitarian Scan #37

Yemen lies along one of the world’s most dangerous, deadliest and least visible migration routes. Every year, thousands of migrants from the Horn of Africa cross the country in search of a better future, often facing trafficking, exploitation, detention and violence along the way.

Foreign secretary Ed Miliband’s intervention provokes rebuke from Washington

In war-torn Gaza, a growing number of women-headed households face “impossible decisions” every day, amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes and still-scarce resources, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. 

Destruction of complex under Ali al-Taher ridge follows months-long effort to gain control of strategic site

Iran is a textbook example of a country that is hyper-visible while its people are rendered invisible.

International Committee of the Red Cross | Lebanon – After months of hostilities, many families across Lebanon are returning to find their homes damaged, services such as health care disrupted, and their sources of income lost. For some, current conditions still make return impossible. Entire towns and villages in Lebanon have suffered widespread destruction and remain largely inaccessible following intense hostilities and destruction. As of 26 August 2026, more than 334,000 people remained disp

Logistics Cluster | occupied Palestinian territory – **AGENDA** 1\. Overall Updates 2\. UN/INGO Upstream Truck Overview 3\. Inter-Agency Pipeline Projection 4\. AoB

International Organization for Migration | Lebanon | Syrian Arab Republic

Logistics Cluster | occupied Palestinian territory – **Context Overview** • UN/INGO aid throughput decreased in August to 7% below the monthly average. Between 01 and 31 August, 2,152 UN and INGO trucks were offloaded at Gaza crossings. Ashdod accounted for 42% of offloads, followed by Egypt (23%) and Jordan (19%); the remaining throughput originated on the West Bank and Israel routes. • The monthly average offloading rate was approximately 85% of manifested trucks. Egypt recorded the highest sh

Regional states hope temporary shipping agreement between Iran and Oman can offer a pathway to ease hostilities and reopen the strait

At least 46,000 people have been displaced since renewed fighting last week between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwestern Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday. 

Latest advance against Saudi-backed forces cements Yemeni rebels’ control over vital shipping artery and roils energy markets

Following assessments by MSF teams of affected areas following the devastating flash floods in Nepal, we found that the government led response does not require our assistance.

Emergency Telecommunications Cluster | Nepal – This Situation Report provides an update on the humanitarian situation following the flash floods that struck Nepal on 26 August 2026. Since the activation of the Logistics & Telecommunications Cluster (LTC) 1 on 02 September, the LTC Telecoms Area has supported humanitarian partners through telecommunications coordination, assessments, connectivity services and information management. The report highlights the latest situation, telecommunications i

CIA director John Ratcliffe will be involved in shuttle diplomacy between Moscow and Kyiv

“The government seems very interested in having a dialogue with Boko Haram, perhaps realising a military response alone is inadequate.”

During the last week of August, MSF teams assisted migrants who disembarked in Mauritania and Senegal.

In Ouré-Cassoni camp, on the Chadian side of the border with Sudan, humanitarian funding cuts are impacting people’s ability to meet their daily needs.

As aid organisations pull out of Sudan, local clinics are left without the funds or medicines they need to provide people with lifesaving care.

As Ebola sweeps across the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), ensuring families meet their basic food needs is crucial to halt the spread of the deadly disease.

MSF’s search and rescue vessel rescued 18 people in distress on the central Mediterranean Sea on 18 August.

“Acting ahead requires accepting that some forecasts will never provide complete certainty.”

“Peace can be possible, but it needs trust and sincerity.”

Isabella Muthoni is a Kenyan teacher who has spent more than 20 years teaching refugee children in Kakuma in northwestern Kenya. She works in an accelerated education programme for older learners whose schooling has been disrupted by conflict and displacement.

“It’s so critical that we scrutinise these actors adequately right now, before they are legitimised.”

Few humanitarian groups have spoken publicly about the global gag rules.

On International Day to Protect Education from Attack we recognise the important role of education to provide hope for the future. Children’s right to quality education should not stop in times of humanitarian emergencies. 

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World Health Organization | Uganda – ***Kampala, Uganda*** – Every day across Uganda, health workers face life-or-death emergencies: a child struggling to breathe from severe pneumonia, a mother experiencing postpartum haemorrhage, a victim of a road traffic crash, or a patient arriving with severe asthma or diabetic complications. In many of these situations, survival depends on what happens in the first few minutes of care. Recognizing the urgent need to improve emergency care, the Ministry of

World Vision | Haiti – **Port-au-Prince, 27 August 2026 -** World Vision International Haiti brought together representatives of the Haitian state, the diplomatic corps, UN agencies, donors, partner organizations and the press for a conference-débat on the ENOUGH campaign. One conviction ran through the day: hunger among Haiti’s children is not a fate, and Haitians themselves must lead the response, with support from their partners. H.E. Hu Cheng-Hao, Ambassador of the Republic of China (Taiwan)

This is the second day in Greece for the group of 40 Romanian firefighters, sent to work alongside their Greek colleagues in the framework of a European programme called prepositioning. The programme has gone from 236 firefighters in 2022, to almost 800 in the summer of 2026.

The Lasting Effects of Crop Diseases on Education and Earnings, The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 40, Issue 2, May 2026, Pages 396-420, …

This in-depth Policy Indicators Brief introduces the Women’s Lived Experience (W-LEX) Data, a new data collection tool developed by the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) project in …

The OECD will launch a new Space Economy at a Glance report on 9 September 11:00 CEST, coinciding with the International Space Summit taking place in Paris.

Global foreign direct investment (FDI) is not disappearing, but it is becoming more concentrated in strategic sectors such as digital infrastructure, artificial intelligence (AI), semiconductors, …

Development assistance

The European Commission has proposed mobilising €1.1 million from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) to support 351 workers in Finland dismissed by four paper manufacturers: Metsä Group, Stora Enso, UPM Communication Papers, and SAPPI.

Opinion: Funding cuts jeopardize the data pipeline essential for projecting future risks of food insecurity and acute malnutrition.

With Ireland as EU Council president, development minister Neale Richmond talks to Devex about earmarking aid funding, pushing back on populist narratives, and why the Global Gateway can’t replace traditional development cooperation.

A look at Zou Jiayi’s potential priorities as the bank makes its first leadership transition.

This week, Nir Bar Dea, CEO of Bridgewater Associates, was appointed co-chair of Global Citizen. Here’s what he had to say about the state of the world and how to solve pressing global challenges.

Transnational repression

As Ireland leads the EU Council, it aims to leverage its deep humanitarian history to safeguard European development aid during crucial long-term budget negotiations.

Ireland makes international development a defining part of its agenda as it settles into its presidency of the EU Council. Plus, USDA’s staff crunch, and Global Citizen’s new co-chair.

Opinion: Development financing and planning must arrive early enough to prevent the long-term consequences of disasters. Evidence from Nepal to the U.S. shows why.

In the Sahel, conflicts between governments and terrorist groups are undermining people’s ability to adapt to climate change. States must address the crucial issues of land, security and mobility, says Kamal Donko in a D+C interview.

Conflicts and climate change

UN Development Programme | World – This landscape report examines how misinformation, disinformation and other forms of information pollution are affecting climate action and responses to climate-related disasters, and how different actors are responding. It draws on a mapping of several hundred information integrity interventions across thematic areas, including almost fifty focused specifically on climate change and climate-related disasters, to identify patterns in the types of challenges add