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IOM Spokesperson: Numbers of Displaced in Yemen Reaches Nearly 94,000

Country: Yemen Source: International Organization for Migration Geneva, 14 September 2026 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports that 93,864 individuals have been newly displaced across Yemen, driven by ongoing conflict. The heaviest impact is concentrated in Ta'iz and Lahj governorates. In Ta'iz's Jabal Habashy district alone, 18,840 people have been displaced, with a further 9,966 displaced from Al Ma'afer. In Lahj, Al-Mudharibah district accounts for 16,464 displaced, with Tuban adding another 2,892. Displacement has also been recorded across Aden, Al Hodeidah, Abyan and additional districts in Ta'iz, reflecting the widening geographic scope of the crisis. IOM and partners are responding on the ground and continue to monitor displacement trends. IOM is calling for urgent support to meet the shelter, water and sanitation needs of newly displaced families. For more information, please visit IOM’s Media Centre .

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept

Sudan Aid Could Collapse Within Weeks Amidst Conflict, Rising Needs: IOM Chief Warns

Country: Sudan Source: International Organization for Migration Port Sudan/Geneva, 14 September 2026 – As hundreds of thousands of displaced people across Sudan continue to face severe shelter shortages and heightened risks from ongoing fighting and heavy rains, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is warning of an imminent end to Sudan’s emergency relief supply via the IOM Common Humanitarian Pipeline. "We simply can't turn our back on the people of Sudan when they need us most amid raging conflict, increased displacement and the impact of heavy rain," said Amy Pope, IOM Director General. "The entire humanitarian system could collapse within weeks if we don't act now. Without new funding, we won't be able to get help where it's needed most." IOM’s warning comes as needs remain acute amid heightened displacement in conflict and crisis-affected communities across Sudan, leaving vulnerable families exposed and the humanitarian system on the edge of collapse. To date, 8.6 million people remain internally displaced and 4.9 million returnees have been recorded by IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix. Nearly 70 per cent of internally displaced people are living with host families or in informal settlements. Ongoing violence, floods and heavy rains continue to damage shelters forcing people to move. Managed by IOM, the Common Humanitarian Pipeline system has reached 2.84 million people since July 2023. Yet its reach is shrinking even as needs remain all-time high: more than 1 million people were assisted through the Pipeline in 2024, falling to 804,000 in 2025, while so far in 2026, IOM has provided shelter and emergency support kits to 330,000 people. Without immediate donor support, current shelter, sanitation and emergency household relief items are expected to be depleted by the end of September 2026. The warehousing and operational capacity that keeps the Pipeline functioning can only be sustained until December 2026. As a shared logistics system for the UN and its partners and one of the key enablers of the humanitarian response in Sudan, the Common Pipeline enables timely, coordinated and efficient dispatch of emergency relief items to people in need. The disruption of the Pipeline would significantly weaken the humanitarian community’s ability to rapidly deliver and mobilise lifesaving-assistance through a network of more than 100 registered partners. Rebuilding the system after any interruption would be a complex, costly and time-consuming process, requiring substantive resources to reestablish supply chains, operational systems and partner coordination networks. IOM requires USD 15 million to maintain the Common Pipeline at its 2026 minimum capacity for 12 months, supporting 305,000 people. USD 27 million would restore assistance to approximately 2025 levels and reach 570,000 people, while USD 42 million would enable a scale-up to provide immediate lifesaving support for up to one million people. For displaced families, inadequate shelter carries wider risks. Prolonged exposure to weather, disease and insecurity can heighten risks of gender-based violence, family separation and eviction in overcrowded sites. Continued underfunding also raises the risk of shelter failure and flood-related secondary displacement in sites already at or beyond capacity. With relief item stocks expected to run out by the end of September and operational capacity at risk thereafter, funding will now determine whether this established emergency supply mechanism remains ready to respond amid ongoing conflict-related displacement and the current rainy season. For more information, please contact IOM Media Center .

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept

WFP Acting Executive Director's Press Conference Following his Mission to Sudan — Remarks as Delivered (14 September 2026)

Country: Sudan Source: World Food Programme Remarks as delivered by Carl Skau, Acting Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), to the press following his mission to Sudan. Thanks for this opportunity, and thanks for those of you in the room listening. I'm speaking to you actually from Oman, from Muscat, but all the same. I just wrapped up an eight-days visit to Sudan. I visited Khartoum, I visited El Obeid, El Fasher, Tawila, and I really had a chance on those front lines to see what this terrible conflict and its aftermath in some places do to people, to access and to hunger. If I start with people, I met people across the country. I met people who had been displaced three years ago when the war started, but I also met people who had been displaced the same day that I spoke to them, or some that had walked for four or five days to get to an IDP camp when their houses, their villages had been destroyed. You know, I sat down with women in camps. I had a chance to speak to one, you know, former university student who is now sitting in that hut. All she wanted was to work but there was no opportunity. She had lost family members, her mother depressed, her father sick. And you know, I also spoke to women who were waiting in the queue to get water from a water tank. About noon that water tank ran out of water so they had to return with their empty cans back home, obviously extremely distressed. So I'm just sharing with you illustrating a few examples of what hundreds of thousands of people now in Sudan are going through and the kind of human dimension behind all these numbers that we see. On access, the journey between El Obeidin and El Fasher, which before the war used to take around six hours by car, now that took me three days. I had to take three different flights, an eight-hour all-together flight from Khartoum to Addis, to N'Djamena, to Adra, then about a 30-hour car ride through the Jebel Mara mountains to get to al-Fasher. And this is, of course, because of the conflict, because we are not able to go cross-line, across the fighting lines. And finally on hunger, I mean, it's important to underline here that Sudan is still the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis. 20 million people in acute hunger, 14 million people displaced, some 5 million of those acutely hunger in emergency level, IPC4, and you know, still 200,000 in IPC5 levels of starvation. This is the largest hunger crisis that we are facing right now. And given that, Sudan does, in my view, not get by far the attention it deserves. You know, humanitarians are attacked. We had a hit two weeks ago only on one of our convoys trying to get to dealing in the Kordofan. Access is difficult, as I explained, partly due to security, partly due to not getting the clearances necessary. But it's also possible to work there. WFP reaches between 4 and 5 million people every month. 2 million or 2.5 million of those are in the hardest to reach areas. So it is possible to make a difference. Now what is really our main challenge is funding. Our operations are completely underfunded and there is a risk that we will have to scale back quite significantly in the next few weeks unless more funding is being provided. I will walk you through the trip I took just to kind of illustrate what this looks like. So I'll start with El Fasher because, you know, I'm one of the few who have visited El Fasher following the events of last year. And I must say that this was a very heavy experience. It's a daunting city. You know, it's the city that was under siege for 18 months. The people suffered through famine. They suffered through these unspeakable atrocities. It's a city that once was, you know, home to a million people, the sprawling kind of capital of Darfur. Now there are only a few tens of thousands of people still. You know, we were driving through street after street with homes riddled with bullets. You know, there were burned cars basically everywhere in every street corner. I didn't see any economic activity, no markets, maybe a couple of stands with women selling something. And you know, some families I spoke to had returned because frankly where they had fled to, they had nothing. But they also weren't staying at home. Their homes were burned, so they had decided to be in maybe some other empty house they had found and everyone trying to also, the few who are left, staying more closer to each other. So really a daunting city, a harrowing experience. The largest crowd of people I saw in El Fasher was only where we were doing our WFP distributions. You know, we are reaching some 20,000 people now with life-saving food assistance, but that's the only assistance, frankly, that gets into El Fasher. It's the only thing that the people who are still there rely on. Driving out of El Fasher we went through the Zam-zam camp, you know, this IDP camp that was already there when this besiegement began. And this, if anything, is even worse than El Fasher. It's a completely abandoned place, and with huts and small houses completely destroyed. There was no one there, a complete ghost town. Then moving on from Zam-zam, we took the road, or it's basically driving on the savannah, from El Fasher to Tawila. It's about a 60 km drive. It took us now an hour. But you know, driving through the bush there, you know, it was hard to imagine that only less than a year ago, some 700,000 people had moved through that space, had done that journey. You know, this exodus of people that made it out of and through the atrocities of El-Fasher to seek safety in Tawila, where we also know that many of these atrocities took place on that journey. So arriving in Tawila, it's my second time I mean, Tawila, I was there in April, as some of you may know. It's an endless ocean of grasshuts. It's now close to a million people. When I was there in April, there were 700,000. Now some 250,000 more have arrived. If I compare to back in April, though, despite the fact that there are many more people now and that the area has expanded even more, some now the shelter is better. I then called for the need for better shelter because the women had told me they want plastic heating tarps for the roofing. Because of the rains, there was some of that now. There was nothing when I was there last time. And of course, also we, since then, as WFP, have been able to scale up. And we are now delivering to the entire population, to some 950,000 people every month. But we're only providing a half ration. We are only providing them the food that lasts them for two weeks and that is done every month. And so, you know, it is not enough. And there are many, many women-headed households there. Many have lost their husbands, many have lost their sons. And you know, the women I sat down to speak with, you know, they are really struggling to make it last, given that they're only receiving this half ration. And of course there is not enough education or space for kids to play, not enough shelter and health care. It's just a massive city now of one million people without the basics. On top of that, driving through Darfur, everywhere I stopped what people wanted to talk about was the drought. Darfur hasn't been this dry since 1984 and right now is the rainy season. And so, you know, everyone is frightened that this will have a serious hit on agriculture and the agriculture outcome. And then, of course, also for livestock further down the road. And like some told me, you know, we rely on that agriculture and we rely on the WFP food. And if, you know, the agriculture is now hit by the drought and WFP's food is hit by funding cuts, how will we survive? And I think that is really the concern in Darfur for the next few months. Then I actually started off my trip in the Kordofan, well in Khartoum but then in the Kordofan and the Blue Nile is where the fighting is now escalating. If the epicenter a year ago of the fighting was in Darfur, now it's in the Kordofan in the Blue Nile. And I visited the city of El Obeid, which was under risk of being besieged a few weeks ago with heavy fighting in the surroundings. It's a huge city that had a million people before the war, and it's now kind of doubled in size. It's a city that used to be really the meeting place of Sudan. It's kind of like Rome, all roads in Sudan lead to El Obeid. And so it's become kind of a safe haven where people from across the country have been arriving and now like a melting pot with displaced from all over. There are eight camps there for internally displaced. Many also live in host communities. But these camps are absolutely overstretched. And when I was there, as I said, people kept arriving. I mean, I was at the registration place where people had arrived that morning. The women had been walking for five days in the west Kordofan, in the south of Kordofan. Their houses, their villages had been destroyed. Our challenge there is also funding. So we are providing less and less, but we're also having to cut off assistance to those who arrived three years ago. So we are prioritizing those who are newly arrived, but of course to the detriment of those who have been there longer, which frankly people who have nothing to turn to either, not possible for them to get any jobs. They have been through terrible atrocities, they cannot return home. So it's a very tense and difficult place where we now have to so tightly prioritize. I mean, in terms of challenges, access remains a challenge. There's no doubt, like I explained, you know, we are not able to do the cross-line that we wish we were, but we are being able to, in Darfur, bring food from Cameroon or through Cameroon and Chad into the Darfur. In the Kordofan we are bringing food from from Port Sudan and from Khartoum. So you know we are being able to deliver, we are getting it done. It's very dangerous as we saw when our trucks were hit a couple of weeks ago but we're trying our best. Of course we would like to have more staff permanently on the ground in those difficult places. We would like to have better deconfliction and we would like to be able to drive across lines which would be much cheaper and faster in order to reach more people much faster. We would also like to expand our air service. We are now providing an air service into Khartoum but of course it would be great if we could do that also in Darfur and into El Obeid. Now the big issue though is funding. We now have have the capacity, we have the presence, but we are not fully using that space because of the lack of funding. And in the next few weeks, as I said, the risk is that we will have to scale back even further and then that will be very difficult for us to regain that space. I mean, in concluding, what we see playing out in Sudan is really what we also see at the global level. And it's all hitting at once. So it's the conflict that is driving displacement, disrupting markets and trade. It is the maritime disruptions in Bab el-Mandeb and Hormuz that is really hitting Sudan as well, with its ports on the Red Sea. And thirdly, it's the El Nino and the climate shocks with the drought we now see in the Darfur. And all this is coming together, really putting pressure on the already suffering people in in Sudan. So what's needed clearly is an end to this conflict and I can't underline that enough heading into this year's UN High Level Week General Assembly. I really hope that there will be political investment, political energy in to bring an end to this conflict. That is my number one appeal. But short of that, people deserve to be supported with basic humanitarian assistance. I feel that we are really failing to protect the civilians now in the Kordofan, in the Blue Nile. We certainly failed to protect and prevent the atrocities in El Fasher last year and we have not done enough for those IDPs who have ended up in camps. But we need to do more. We need to step up. We cannot keep failing these people. We need to provide them the basics. We feel that we now have the capacity on the ground. We have the access together with with the UN agencies under the leadership of Denise Brown, the RC. And we just want to get that work done. And we hope that donors will step up and provide us the funding to do so. Note to editors: Broadcast quality video footage from the Acting Executive Director's Mission to Sudan can be downloaded here .

ReliefWebReliefWeb•World Food Programme14 Sept

Guatemala: PAHO Regional Situation Report No.11: Measles in the Region of the Americas (11 September 2026)

Countries: Guatemala, Canada, Mexico, United States of America, World Source: Pan American Health Organization Please refer to the attached file. Summary of the Situation Between epidemiological week (EW) 1 and EW 35 of 2026 (which ended on 5 September 2026), the Region of the Americas reported 52,676 confirmed cases of measles in 17 countries and territories, representing a 3.8-fold increase compared with the same period in 2025. Guatemala (33,334), Mexico (12,848), the United States (3,134), Peru (1,997), and Canada (1,119) account for the vast majority (99.5%) of confirmed cases (Map 1). A total of 61 deaths have been reported, including 41 in Guatemala, 19 in Mexico, and one in Bolivia (1). During EW 33 and EW 34 of 2026, the Region of the Americas reported 911 new confirmed cases of measles in six countries and territories, representing a 36.6% decrease compared with the previous two-week period (EW 31–32; 1,436 new cases, of which 274 were retrospectively accounted for since the last regional situation report was published) (Figure 1). Of the 911 new confirmed cases reported during EW 33–34, Guatemala accounted for 350, followed by the United States with 303, Peru with 171, and Mexico with 83 while Bolivia and Canada reported two cases each2.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•Pan American Health Organization14 Sept

World: Routes Monitor Key Updates - September 2026

Countries: World, Algeria, Bangladesh, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. Highlights The integration of quarterly land movement estimates provides a more complete understanding of route dynamics. The figures highlight the importance of overland movements along the South and South-East Asia route and improve visibility of the land segment of both Western and Eastern Mediterranean Routes. The indicator should support comparison of how movements are distributed across each route, rather than direct comparison between maritime and land movements totals. Routes recorded lower arrival figures in July, although the scale of the decline varied. Arrivals decreased by 22% on both the Central and Eastern Mediterranean Routes, while recorded movements on the South and South-East Asia Route fell more sharply, from 518 in June to 65 in July. Disembarkation patterns shifted towards the Western Mediterranean Route in July. Disembarkations in the Western Mediterranean increased from 96 in June to 1,320 in July, while Central Mediterranean disembarkations rose by 8% to 2,769. By contrast, Western Africa Atlantic Route disembarkations declined by 52% to 385. Dead or missing people at sea: Most reported deaths and disappearances at sea were recorded along the Western Africa Atlantic Route in July, highlighting the continued risks associated with movements across the Atlantic corridor and the importance of sustained protection monitoring. Nationality patterns shifted across the Mediterranean routes in July 2026. Sudanese and Bangladeshi nationals’ movements on the Eastern Mediterranean Route declined compared with June, largely reflecting lower movements from Libya to Greece. Afghans became relatively more prominent on the Eastern Mediterranean Route, while the Central Mediterranean profile shifted towards Algerians, Bangladeshis, Somalis and Eritreans, with a marked reduction in Sudanese movements.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•UN High Commissioner for Refugees14 Sept

World: Accountability to Affected People (AAP) Assessment: Community Perceptions of Humanitarian Assistance, Communication and Feedback Mechanisms in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe (BAY) States, Northeast Nigeria

Country: World Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. The 2026 AAP Assessment provides important evidence on how communities across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states perceive humanitarian assistance, information, participation, feedback mechanisms, protection, localization and the ongoing humanitarian transition. Overall, the findings show a response that remains broadly trusted and positively perceived, while highlighting important gaps in satisfaction, targeting transparency, timely access to information, inclusive participation, feedback responsiveness and community influence over humanitarian decisions. A central finding is that the existence of accountability mechanisms does not automatically translate into meaningful accountability. Communities need more than access to meetings, committees and complaints channels; they need confidence that their concerns are heard, acted upon and communicated back to them. Strengthening responsiveness and consistently closing the feedback loop should therefore be a priority across the response. The findings also reinforce the importance of inclusion, particularly for women and girls, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and host communities . Humanitarian actors should move beyond consultation towards meaningful participation, ensuring that affected people can demonstrably influence decisions about assistance. As the humanitarian response transitions towards greater government and local leadership, AAP should serve as a critical safeguard of the transition. Changes in assistance, responsibilities and service delivery should be accompanied by timely communication, meaningful community engagement, accessible feedback mechanisms and monitoring of groups at risk of being left behind. Similarly, localization should strengthen not only the role of national and local actors but also their accountability to affected populations.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs14 Sept

World: 87 Million Lives: Delivering on the Promise

Country: World Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. On 8 December 2025, the Emergency Relief Coordinator launched the 2026 Global Humanitarian Overview (GHO) and the 87 Million Lives campaign, led with the IASC, to mobilize US$23 billion for hyper-prioritized life-saving assistance to the 87 million people in greatest need , within the broader GHO target of 135 million people . By early September, total potential support had surpassed $13 billion while a gap of well over US$11 billion remains. Reaching the 87 million people most in need takes more than funding. It demands safe, unimpeded humanitarian access, respect for international humanitarian law, and protection of civilians and aid workers. In the final quarter of 2026, financial support must be matched by targeted diplomacy that improves access, strengthens protection, and extends humanitarian reach. The event is a moment of recognition, accountability and action, built around one urgent question: what will it take to reach the 87 million people hardest hit by crisis – and who can make it happen? It will recognize the Member States, refugee-hosting countries, regional partners, private sector and philanthropists, and others supporting the humanitarian response; show (not tell), through data, league tables and human testimony, what funding has delivered – and what the gap is costing; and mobilize commitments for the final quarter of 2026. The message is clear: reaching people requires more than money. It demands decisive action to close funding gaps, secure access and strengthen protection.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs14 Sept
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Yemen: Porte-parole de l'OIM : Le nombre de personnes déplacées au Yémen atteint près de 94 000

Country: Yemen Source: International Organization for Migration Genève, 14 septembre 2026 – L'Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM) indique que 93 864 personnes ont été nouvellement déplacées à travers le Yémen, sous l'effet d'un conflit persistant. Les déplacements les plus importants sont enregistrés dans les gouvernorats de Ta'iz et de Lahj. Dans le seul district de Jabal Habashy, dans le gouvernorat de Ta'iz, 18 840 personnes ont été déplacées, auxquelles s'ajoutent 9 966 personnes déplacées depuis Al Ma'afer. Dans le gouvernorat de Lahj, le district d'Al-Mudharibah compte 16 464 personnes déplacées, tandis que Tuban en recense 2 892 supplémentaires. Des déplacements ont également été enregistrés à Aden, Al Hodeidah, Abyan et dans d'autres districts de Ta'iz, témoignant de l'élargissement géographique de la crise. L'OIM et ses partenaires interviennent sur le terrain et continuent de surveiller les tendances en matière de déplacement. L'OIM appelle à un soutien urgent afin de répondre aux besoins en abri d'urgence, en eau et en assainissement des familles nouvellement déplacées. Pour plus d'informations, veuillez consulter le Centre de presse de l'OIM .

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept

Syria in 2026: Between Transition and Recovery - A Secondary Data Review of Humanitarian Conditions and Operational Implications (August 2026)

Countries: Syrian Arab Republic, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Türkiye Source: Estonian Refugee Council Please refer to the attached file. Key Takeaways • Since December 2024, Syria has witnessed one of the largest and most rapid return movements of this century. More than 3.5 million refugees and IDPs have returned to their places of origin – a scale unimaginable only a few years ago. While the renewed possibility of return is encouraging, movements have far outpaced many communities’ absorption capacity. In many locations, returnees have found essential services missing and are having to live in damaged housing. As such, any future humanitarian programming should incorporate an area-based reintegration approach. • Available benchmarks show that income covers only a fraction of essential costs. In March, the minimum wage covered 28% of WFP’s MEB for a family of five and less than half (43%) of its food component. Independently, SCPR found that university educated public-sector and private-sector wages covered only 33.9% and 38.5% of the household abject-poverty line in April. These findings reinforce the need to verify household income and expenditure locally before setting transfer values and to review values regularly as prices and exchange conditions change. • Women-headed households, children, people with disabilities and families of missing persons face compounded protection concerns. Documentation and death-registration gaps restrict property rights and assistance; people with disabilities experience exclusion from work; economic stress increases GBV and harmful coping; and children are at a high risk for explosive-ordnance casualties, child labor and child marriages. Specialist legal assistance and robust referral system add-ons should be considered to ensure that assistance coverage goes beyond the minimum survival standards and accounts for specific vulnerabilities of affected groups. • Cash-delivery conditions improved somewhat in June and July as exchange-rate differences narrowed and the Central Bank expanded currency choice for beneficiaries of covered incoming remittances. However, local humanitarian transactions and procurement must still be conducted in Syrian pounds, and feasibility remains highly location specific. Financial service provider liquidity, currency availability, fees, agent coverage, documentation requirements, electricity, connectivity and cash-out safety should therefore be verified before selecting a delivery mechanism, with offline and non-cash alternatives retained. • Explosive-ordnance contamination and the prohibitive cost of land clearance constrain agricultural recovery in many return areas. Livelihood support should therefore extend beyond agriculture to viable non-farm microenterprises, particularly for womenheaded and returnee households. Productive-asset grants including support to purchase sewing machines, workshop tools, small-business stock, or equipment for small food retail activities is recommended, provided local assessment confirms demand and viability.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•Estonian Refugee Council14 Sept

iMMAP Somalia: Mine Action Data Brief - Protection Cluster (August 2026)

Country: Somalia Source: iMMAP Inc. Please refer to the attached file. The Project This MACM III programme — is a Netherlands MFA initiative to strengthen, Somalia's national mine action authority (NMAA), build the systems and skills to manage explosive hazards on its own according to international standards. About SEMA Somalia Explosive Management Authority is the national mine action authority responsible for strengthening and improving coordination of mine action programmes, relevant information management, and reducing the impact of explosive hazards on people, services, livelihoods, and development.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•iMMAP Inc.14 Sept

UNHCR Romania Ukraine Refugee Situation Update - 14 September 2026

Countries: Romania, Ukraine Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Please refer to the attached file. Highlight On 10 September, UNHCR met with Ms. Ana Rădulescu, President of the National Authority for the Protection of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (ANPDPD), to strengthen cooperation on the protection and inclusion of refugees with disabilities in Romania. The meeting reaffirmed the strong partnership and reviewed efforts to improve refugees’ access to disability-related services and national support systems. UNHCR highlighted its 2023 support to ANPDPD in developing and disseminating accessible guidance on Romania’s disability certification process, including information materials and outreach to refugee communities. UNHCR also welcomed ANPDPD’s direct engagement with refugees through joint information sessions and accessible public information, while stressing the importance of keeping materials updated. The meeting addressed efforts to harmonize disability certification standards for children and adults, noting progress following ANPDCA’s alignment of standards for children with those used by ANPDPD. Both institutions agreed to continue joint information sessions, update materials and coordinate outreach to refugee communities. ANPDPD also invited UNHCR to participate in a working group to further advance cooperation.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•UN High Commissioner for Refugees14 Sept
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Portavoz de la OIM: El número de personas desplazadas en Yemen alcanza casi 94.000

Country: Yemen Source: International Organization for Migration Ginebra, 14 de septiembre de 2026 - La Organización Internacional para las Migraciones (OIM) informa que 93.864 personas han sido recientemente desplazadas en distintas zonas de Yemen a causa del conflicto en curso. El impacto más severo se concentra en las gobernaciones de Ta'iz y Lahj. Solo en el distrito de Jabal Habashy, en Ta'iz, 18.840 personas han sido desplazadas, con otras 9.966 desplazadas desde Al Ma'afer. En Lahj, el distrito de Al-Mudharibah registra 16.464 personas desplazadas, a las que se suman 2.892 provenientes de Tuban. También se han registrado desplazamientos en Adén, Al Hodeidah, Abyan y otros distritos de Ta'iz, lo que refleja el alcance geográfico cada vez mayor de la crisis. La OIM y sus socios están respondiendo sobre el terreno y continúan monitoreando las tendencias del desplazamiento. La OIM hace un llamado urgente a brindar apoyo para satisfacer las necesidades de alojamiento de emergencia, agua y saneamiento de las familias recién desplazadas. Para más información, visite el Centro de Medios de la OIM .

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept

Yemen: Cash Assistance and Informal Social Protection in Taiz: How Household Social Networks Shape - and Are Shaped by - Multi-Purpose Cash Assistance

Country: Yemen Sources: Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development, Cash Consortium of Yemen, Danish Refugee Council, European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, International Organization for Migration, Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Solidarités International Please refer to the attached file. In Yemen, where formal social protection has largely collapsed and around four in five people need assistance, informal social protection (ISP) networks are a crucial source of support for households affected by displacement, income loss, illness and debt. However, humanitarian and development programming often focuses on strengthening economic resources while overlooking the social networks that shape households’ ability to cope and recover. This study examines how multi-purpose cash assistance (MPCA) interacts with these networks in Taiz governorate. Conducted between October 2025 and April 2026, it draws on baseline and endline surveys of MPCA recipients, covering 114 and 73 households, respectively, interviews with 30 recipient households, and 15 key informant interviews. The study finds that households rely mainly on relatives and neighbours as safety nets for food, small emergency loans, childcare, labour referrals and shopkeeper credit. These networks rarely provide the investment capital, market access or technical expertise needed to establish sustainable livelihoods. During the MPCA period, economic contacts and credit lines increased, while social contacts declined. The evidence suggests that MPCA activated existing economic relationships rather than creating new ones, while some informal support from relatives and neighbours decreased after households began receiving assistance. These changes coincided with MPCA receipt and should not be interpreted as causal. The findings underline that MPCA remains a primary survival intervention. Debt, limited savings, network poverty, restricted access to formal finance, and weak links to markets create structural barriers to productive investment. Women’s networks emerged as particularly important sources of information, initial customers, informal support and entry points to small-scale economic activity. However, women continue to face constraints related to mobility, transport costs, caregiving responsibilities and household decision-making. The study recommends pairing MPCA with complementary livelihoods and resilience support, including debt-management guidance, referral pathways, accessible programming for women, accompanied asset purchases, staged disbursements and stronger links to markets, cooperatives, financial providers and private-sector actors.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•Solidarités International14 Sept
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MSF Yemen: Support for maternity hospital is changing lives in Haydan

Country: Yemen Source: Médecins Sans Frontières 14th Sept 2026 - Arwa,* a 27-year-old mother from Haydan in Sa’adah Governorate, Yemen, has precious hopes for her pregnancy this time. ​ "If I had to travel for hours to the city every month just for routine checkups, I would have lost my baby. Having this care right here in our village is what has allowed me to carry my pregnancy safely." For 10 long years, Arwa was unable to get pregnant. When she finally did, the pregnancy ended in tragedy. During a routine antenatal care check-up, healthcare staff discovered that the foetus had died in her womb. At the time, Haydan Hospital, her local hospital, did not have the specialised staff or equipment needed to provide comprehensive miscarriage care. Arwa had to travel to Sa’adah city for an emergency procedure, costing her extensive unpaid leave and hefty travel expenses. ​ While Arwa was still fortunate to have a salary to support her, many women in her village do not have that cushion. For them and their families, travelling to the city, paying private doctors and covering the cost of ultrasounds and medicines can simply be beyond their means. For a long time, motherhood across Haydan was defined by this shared anxiety, and Haydan Hospital maternity was stretched beyond its capacities. ​ A typical day for the midwives at Haydan Hospital was a nonstop race against time. Women arrived continuously from Haydan town and surrounding villages. Some had walked for hours over steep hills, while others had travelled by car over difficult roads. The team had to manage routine check-ups, family planning, normal deliveries at the same time as all kinds of emergencies, from severe bleeding to dangerous seizures caused by the high blood pressure disorder eclampsia. “When these women finally reached the hospital, they were met by a very limited service,” recalls one of the midwives. Back then when there was no separate ward for maternity admissions. Pregnant women, women in active labour, new mothers with their newborns, women with other health needs and children requiring surgery were all squeezed into a single nine-bed ward. “Our midwives were also not allowed to carry out some basic lifesaving procedures, including inducing labour or managing miscarriages, because of strict protocols.” That began to change in April 2026. With support from MSF, the maternity department was expanded from nine to 18 beds, separating maternity patients from the general non-obstetric medico-surgical ward. Nine beds are now available for women with complicated pregnancies and postpartum, those recovering from surgery and other patients requiring closer care, while another nine are dedicated to normal pre- and post-partum cases. ​ The upgrade has strengthened access to maternal healthcare for more than 293,000 people living in the hospital's catchment area. Most importantly, the hospital recruited four obstetrician-gynaecologists, four additional midwives and four nurse assistants, giving the team, for the first time, both the expertise and capacity to provide critical care within the hospital itself. As a result, average monthly obstetric and gynaecological admissions tripled from 33 to 100 following the inception of comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care services in April, while normal deliveries increased by 20 percent. But perhaps the biggest difference can be seen in the experiences of the women themselves. Early in Arwa’s pregnancy, the new obstetric team detected a risk of miscarriage after she experienced mild bleeding. In the past, this would have meant another difficult journey to Sa’adah. This time, she was treated at Haydan hospital, and her pregnancy is now stable. ​ Shatha,* meanwhile, returned to Haydan Hospital for her second delivery, four years after her first birth. During her monthly prenatal check-ups in the upgraded department, the medical team detected early warning signs but was able to monitor her closely and help prevent postpartum bleeding, a common cause of maternal mortality. The expansion reflects MSF's commitment to improving maternal health and newborn care services combined. It aims to reduce delays in reaching care, prevent complications and strengthen care for mothers and their new babies. It also responds to rising needs in Haydan and its surroundings. Humanitarian funding cuts have stripped away maternal services closer to people's homes, and Haydan Hospital now receives more women, including those needing specialised care. For women like Arwa and Shatha, the difference perhaps is much simpler: when they need care, more of it is now available closer to home. *Names have been changed to protect privacy. -ENDS- MSF UK media@london.msf.org +44 (0) 207 067 4236

ReliefWebReliefWeb•Médecins Sans Frontières14 Sept

DR Congo: RDC — Ituri : Suivi des flux de population dans le cadre de la riposte à la maladie à virus Ebola (MVE), semaine 36 (août-septembre 2026)

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: International Organization for Migration Please refer to the attached Infographic. Ce tableau de bord hebdomadaire de suivi des flux de population de la DTM RDC fournit un aperçu des dynamiques de mobilité observées dans la province de l’Ituri dans le cadre de la riposte à la maladie à virus Ebola (MVE). Il présente les principales tendances des mouvements de voyageurs observés aux points de contrôle actifs, ainsi qu’une analyse des déplacements en lien avec les zones de santé touchées par la transmission active de la maladie. Les données ont été collectées du 31 août au 6 septembre 2026 dans sept points de contrôle actifs. Au total, 80 090 voyageurs ont été enregistrés et 4 466 entretiens individuels ont été réalisés afin d’analyser les itinéraires empruntés, les profils des voyageurs et les mouvements entre les différentes zones de santé de la province. Les résultats montrent que 86 pour cent des trajets franchissent une limite de zone de santé et que 5 pour cent des voyageurs quittent la province de l’Ituri. Ce tableau de bord est mis à jour chaque semaine afin de fournir des informations régulières sur les tendances de mobilité dans le contexte de la riposte à la MVE. Les données collectées contribuent à l’identification des principaux couloirs de déplacement, au suivi des mouvements liés aux zones à transmission active et au renforcement des activités de surveillance et de réponse à l’épidémie.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept

DR Congo: DRC — Ituri: Population Flow Monitoring Dashboard in the Context of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) Response, Week 36 (August - September 2026)

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo Source: International Organization for Migration Please refer to the attached Infographic. This weekly DTM DRC Flow Monitoring dashboard provides an overview of mobility dynamics observed in Ituri Province in the context of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) response. It presents key trends in traveller movements recorded at active Flow Monitoring Points, as well as an analysis of movements linked to health zones affected by active disease transmission. Data were collected from 31 August to 6 September 2026 at seven active points of control. A total of 80,090 travellers were counted and 4,466 individual interviews were conducted to analyse travel routes, traveller profiles, and movements between health zones within and beyond the province. Results indicate that 86 per cent of journeys crossed a health zone boundary, while 5 per cent of travellers left Ituri Province during the reporting period. This dashboard will be updated on a weekly basis to provide regular information on mobility trends in the context of the EVD response. As the monitoring network expands, geographical coverage will be progressively strengthened to enhance population movement monitoring and support outbreak response activities.

ReliefWebReliefWeb•International Organization for Migration14 Sept