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From afar, the trees almost look as if they were decorated with oversized Christmas ornaments. But a closer look reveals a more sobering reality: plastic bags swept up by the wind and caught in their branches.

Since the outbreak of the conflict in Sudan in 2023, the hostilities have pushed over a million displaced people – including Sudanese refugees and Chadian returnees – into neighbouring Chad.

‘When I compare her to other children her age, I feel very emotional. I cannot help it.’ Naima is sitting in a quiet room, hidden from the baking midday sun and away from the clamour of hundreds of other mothers and their children. A wide-eyed baby sits in her lap.

In the sprawling refugee camps of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, families who have endured years of displacement and hardship now face an even more uncertain future with dwindling resources.

Haiti is struggling with an unprecedented level of violence. Armed groups control more than 85% of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and are expanding their presence in the Artibonite and Centre departments, increasing catastrophic levels of humanitarian needs.

At a time of extraordinary need, with fragile infrastructure still reeling from the 2023 earthquakes and displaced people considering returning home after the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, the NGO GOAL provides essential humanitarian support.

In Zumbare, a rural village of thatched huts in eastern Zimbabwe, the rooftops shimmer under the heat. Riverbeds have run dry, and the surrounding fields are filled with the skeletal remains of maize stalks that failed to mature.

Since 1948, UNRWA has operated in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (oPT), Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon, providing registered Palestinian refugees with education, healthcare, social services, infrastructure and camp improvements, microfinance, and emergency assistance.

A small bakery in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine continues to bake fresh bread amid shelling and power cuts to keep its community strong – thanks to the EU’s support

Two years since the conflict in Sudan began in April 2023, women and girls continue to bear the brunt of the crisis. Of the 15 million forcibly displaced people, a significant number are women and girls of reproductive age

In 2024, heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan caused widespread flooding that devastated large parts of the country. Mirpur Khas, an already impoverished district in the southern Sindh province, was amongst the hardest hit.

The conflict in Western Sahara – once a Spanish colony – has resulted in 5 decades of displacement for the Sahrawi people, with an estimated number of about 173,000 refugees living in 5 isolated camps near Tindouf, in western Algeria.

Since January 2025, Ecuador has been experiencing a prolonged rainy season, causing intense floods and landslides. The western provinces of Manabí, Guayas, El Oro, Los Ríos, and Esmeraldas have been particularly affected.

When Dr Bassil Al Eleh heard the sound of bombing on the morning of 7 October 2023, he couldn’t have predicted the scale of devastation that would unfold over the coming months. The northern Gaza Strip, where he lived, soon became a focal point of relentless attacks.

To combat the disease, the EU and its humanitarian partners train local health workers to identify and treat possible malaria cases, as well as educating communities on how to protect themselves.

This is the story of Happy and Goodness. When Happy was abducted from her village in northern Nigeria in May 2024, Goodness was not yet born.

Since 2016, Burkina Faso has been engulfed in an unprecedented security crisis, triggering a devastating humanitarian situation. Once known for its rich cultural heritage and resilient communities, the country is now at the epicentre of a multifaceted crisis.

Over 16 months of war devastated the Gaza Strip. What was once a place with resourceful people struggling with many challenges and under Israeli blockade, is now a grim landscape of rubble, tents, and overcrowded, bullet-riddled makeshift shelters.

2 years into Sudan’s brutal war, 15 million people - 1 in 3 Sudanese - are displaced, including nearly 4 million who fled to neighbouring countries.