In Venezuela, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that 200,000 people affected by devastating earthquakes five weeks ago have received hot meals, healthcare, safe water, shelter, legal and psychological support through the joint efforts of the UN, aid partners, local communities and the authorities.
The World Food Programme (WFP) warns that food assistance for more than 130,000 refugees in Burundi risks drawing down unless funding is received. WFP urgently needs $35 million to sustain food and nutrition support for refugees through August 2027. Without new resources, life-saving food distributions will end in October.
In Rwanda, the UN and aid partners are supporting a $40 million Government-led preparedness plan against Ebola, through surveillance, laboratory capacity, case management, infection prevention and control, water and sanitation, and risk communication. The UN Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $2 million.
In Venezuela, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that more than 100 aid organizations have carried out over 2,200 activities to help people affected by last month’s earthquakes and to meet preexisting needs, from the delivery of hot meals to the distribution of tents across 14 states.
Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher allocated $1 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for an urgent response to the cholera outbreak declared last month in the Central African Republic. More than 400 suspected cases and 36 deaths have been recorded. Children under age 10 account for 44 per cent of all reported cases.
A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report finds that child food and nutrition insecurity is a primary driver of undernutrition in Afghanistan, placing 3.7 million children under age 5 at increased risk. Recent data show that wasting has worsened across 26 of the country’s 34 provinces, compared with 2025.
Deep cuts in humanitarian funding are forcing women’s organizations to scale back or even shut down, with at least 1 million women and girls losing access to critical support since January 2025, the UN Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) reports.
In Sudan’s North Kordofan, drone strikes are reported, including one that targeted a water truck in Hamrat Al-Sheikh, leaving civilian casualties and further disrupting access to essential water supplies.
On 6 July, attackers raided an Ebola treatment centre in Butembo, North Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, setting fire to a facility. Since the outbreak was declared on 15 May, humanitarian partners have recorded security incidents targeting Ebola response personnel and other aid workers in Ituri, South Kivu and North Kivu provinces.
In the Occupied Palestinian Territory, people continue being displaced in areas along the so-called “Yellow Line” in Gaza, as Israeli troop advancement shrinks the area that families can still inhabit. So far, just over a quarter of the $4.1 billion needed for aid operations in the Territory this year has been secured.
