On 10 October 2025, two powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Manay, Davao Oriental. The first earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.4, occurred at 9:43 a.m., approximately 48 kilometers northeast of the Municipality of Manay, Davao Oriental, at a depth of...
On 27 - 30 September 2025, heavy and persistent rains struck the Kakheti region, severely impacting Lagodekhi Municipality in eastern Georgia over the following few days. Apart from the persistent rainfall damaging the roofs of the houses and washing out the...
The newly formed tropical cyclone BUALOI - named Opong in the Philippines - is moving northwest toward central Philippines. On 25 September at 0.00 UTC, its centre was located 383 km east of Samar Island’s eastern coast, with maximum sustained winds of 102...
During the night of 16-17 September 2025, heavy rains fell across most communes of the Nord-Ouest department, causing the Trois-Rivières River in Port-de-Paix to overflow suddenly. The floods resulted in extensive inundations across several neighborhoods in...
Between 13 and 14 September 2025, Dikwa Local Government Area (LGA) in Borno State, Nigeria experienced severe flooding triggered by heavy rainfall, which significantly impacted three camps: Alhaji Bashir Camp, Kamcheji Camp, and the Reception Centre...
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of 4 September 2025. The outbreak has...
Between 31 August and 5 September 2025, Sierra Leone experienced devastating flash floods across 17 communities in seven districts including Bonthe, Kenema, Bo, Moyamba, Kono, Falaba, and Koinadugu. The floods, caused by persistent heavy rainfall and...
On 31 August 2025 at 23.47 local time, a 6+ magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province near the Pakistan border. The epicenter was located in Kama district, some 30 km northeast of the city of Jalalabad. Several aftershocks have occurred...
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is mounting an urgent response to severe flooding that has swept across southern Yemen. More than 100,000 people have been affected by flash floods, triggered by torrential rains, that have destroyed homes – including...
Bolivia entered its seasonal dry period (June to September), a period marked by heightened wildfire risk, particularly in the eastern and Amazonian regions. This risk is exacerbated by slash-and-burn agricultural practices ("chaqueo"), which often become...
Following torrential rains on 11 August, flash floods struck the northern islands of São Vicente, Santo Antão, and São Nicolau, leaving nine people dead, three missing, and displacing 1,500 people. The Government has declared a state of calamity across the...
The ongoing heatwave in Syria, which began on 8 August 2025, has had a wide-reaching impact across multiple governorates, including Rural Damascus, Hama, Aleppo, Homs, Sweida, and Daraa. Temperatures have exceeded 45°C, placing immense strain on already...
For several days, the island region of Equatorial Guinea has been hit by persistent rains, affecting several districts of the capital Malabo. However, the most worrying situation occurred in the city of Luba, capital of the province of Bioko Sur. On Saturday,...
As of July 2025, Somalia particularly Puntland regions of Mudug, Nugal and Bari were grappling with a sustained and intensifying diphtheria outbreak. The disease, a highly contagious yet vaccine-preventable illness, continues to spread at alarming rates,...
According to successive UN situation reports that are referring to in initial government assessment reports, between 21 and 30 July 2025, heavy rainfall associated with the remnants of Tropical Depression Wipha caused widespread flooding and landslides across...
As of 30 July, flooding continues to impact an estimated 80,000 people in Mayendit and Bor South counties, in Unity and Jonglei states. While no flood-related displacement has been reported to date, communities remain at heightened risk due to prolonged...
The Ministry of Health was informed on July 10, 2025 of the appearance of several cases of diarrhea in the health district of Ile de Mbamou, Brazzaville department, clinically accompanied by the following signs: Fever, vomiting, emission of liquid stools. The...
Although the monsoon arrived in Nepal on 29 May, the majority of areas in Madhesh Province (Province 2) remain deprived of rain six weeks later. The lack of rainfall has led to a water crisis, and the province is facing an unexpected drought despite...
In the morning hours of July 22, 2025, Coyah Prefecture was struck by intense torrential rainfall, leading to catastrophic and widespread flooding across the region. Four deaths have been confirmed, including two children, and at least 527 people have...
Between 14 and 15 July 2025, heavy rain and floods across Dar As Salam town of Dar As Salam locality, North Darfur reportedly displaced 87 households. Field teams estimated that 87 houses were destroyed, while 37 houses were partially damaged. Displaced...
The cholera outbreak continues to spread, reaching Sila province after Ouaddaï, where Abdi health district reported four cases, including one death, last week. In Ouaddaï, three health districts are affected, with Farchana and Amléyouna recently reporting...
Since 8 July, a series of earthquakes has severely affected several departments of Guatemala, causing significant impacts on both the population and infrastructure. According to the latest report from the National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED),...
Heavy monsoon rains since 26 June have triggered flash floods across Pakistan, particularly affecting Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Punjab, and Sindh provinces. As of 1 July, 45 fatalities and 68 injuries have been reported by the disaster management...
On 17 June, 2025, the department of Ocotepeque began experiencing heavy rainfall caused by the interaction of a surface trough with Tropical Wave Erick, a hydrometeorological event that entered the country that same day. This combination triggered flooding,...
Since the end of May 2025, the La Villa River — the main water source for the provinces of Herrera and Los Santos — has been facing a critical situation due to severe contamination. A technical operation carried out by the Ministry of Environment (MiAmbiente)...
In the late hours of 10 June through the early morning of 11 June 2025, the city of Gabu, capital of the Gabu region in Guinea-Bissau, was struck by a severe windstorm accompanied by torrential rains. The storm swept through four densely populated...
The passage of Tropical Wave number 9 through western Venezuela has caused heavy rains that led to flooding and landslides in the states of Barinas, Mérida, Trujillo, and Táchira. Local and national authorities agree that this has been the strongest rain...
On 05 June 2025, the Ministry of Health officially declared the cholera outbreak. This first outbreak in the past 15 years has arisen at the very start of the rainy season—a known aggravating factor that increases the spread of stagnant water and waterborne...
[...] As of 16 May 2025, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has confirmed a polio outbreak—the first since 2018—after detecting two cases of poliovirus type 2 in children from Lae, Morobe Province. Environmental samples from Port Moresby also tested positive for the...
As of 30 April, three cases were reported in Ecuador. Predicting new cases is uncertain due to virus transmission dynamics and irregular border crossings, especially from Colombia and Peru, where outbreaks persist. Risk is higher in Amazonian provinces with...
Between 14 and 16 May 2025, severe flash floods triggered by intense rainfall and hailstorms affected at least 15 provinces across Algeria, with Djelfa, M’Sila, Laghouat, and Tiaret being the most severely impacted. The floods resulted in the deaths of 5...
The malaria outbreak has resulted in increased morbidity and mortality, with 85 confirmed deaths reported as of 26 April 2025. The surge in malaria cases has placed additional pressure on healthcare facilities, particularly in rural areas where resources are...
On 8 April, the Ministry of Health issued a statement on the ongoing cholera outbreak affecting several parts of the country. As of 6 April, 97 confirmed cases had been recorded, more than double the 43 cases reported by WHO on 20 March. Six deaths have been...
A strong earthquake of 7.7 M at a depth of 10 km occurred on 28 March at 06.20 UTC (12.50 local time) in Sagaing Region, central Myanmar. The epicentre was located about 16 km north-north-west of Sagaing city, and 19 km north-west of Mandalay city. An...
According to the Republican Center for Immunoprophylaxis of the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic (RCI), since the beginning of 2025, the epidemiological situation in the country for measles and rubella has deteriorated. The RCI informs that, as of 18...
According to the Mozambique National Institute of Meteorology (INAM), Cyclone Jude made its landfall over the district of Mossuril in Nampula province on 10 March at 06:00H (local time), with maximum sustained winds of 140 km/h and gustiness of up to 195...
On 6 March, the National Meteorological Service, through its Early Warning System, established the Orange Alert Level for storms for the southern region of the Province of Buenos Aires. Given that this represented a dangerous phenomenon for society, life,...
While Tropical Cyclone Honde passed approximately 100 km off the south-western coast of Madagascar, its wind and rain mainly affected two regions. Initial reports indicate that three people have died, one is missing, and 69 others have been injured...
Since 16 February, Botswana has been experiencing widespread floods caused by heavy rainfall which resulted in the displacement of over five thousand people, including children, disrupting access to clean water, healthcare, education, and shelter. The crisis...
American Samoa On 8 July 2025, the American Samoa Department of Health declared a public health emergency due to a dengue fever outbreak. As of 10 July 2025, there have been a total of 9 laboratory-confirmed cases of dengue fever reported, of which eight are...
The Government declared a 60-day state of emergency across 338 districts in 20 regions, including Lima and Callao, to address the severe threat of heavy rainfall. An executive decree for the emergency will allow authorities to expedite urgent action to reduce...
In Luanda on January 7th out of 25 suspected cases of cholera, 5 deaths were reported. On January 8th, over 30 suspected cases of cholera were recorded in the same area of Luanda province. The rapid escalation of suspected cases indicates potential for a...
A 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck 30 km west of Port Vila, Vanuatu, on 17 December 2024, at 12:47 PM local time. A tsunami warning was issued but has since been lifted. Search and rescue operations are ongoing at the time of reporting. Preliminary reports...
The Colombian government has declared a national state of emergency for the second time this year due to heavy rains and floods, primarily impacting Chocó and La Guajira. In Chocó, flooding from the Atrato, San Juan and Baudó rivers has affected more than...
The cholera outbreak began on October 4, 2024, when the first case was recorded after an individual exhibiting cholera-like symptoms sought medical care following attendance at a funeral in the Ada East District. The epidemic spread to 36 districts across...
On 22 May, the Government of Namibia declared the State of Emergency following the worst drought that the country has experienced in 100 years. According to media reports, every one in five Namibians is considered food insecure. Against the backdrop of scarce...
According to the weather update for quarter 1 of 2024 issued by the Lesotho Meteorological Services, the persistent heatwaves and exceptionally high temperatures experienced between January and March 2024 have led to widespread dryness of crops across most...
About nine million people in Malawi are reeling from the devastating impacts of El Niño-induced floods and drought, which are destroying harvests and causing hunger to soar to crisis levels ... An El Niño-induced drought has severely affected this season’s...
The dry spell has from mid-January this year affected most of the central and southern half of the country, which has received less than normal rainfall leaving 1 million hectares of maize destroyed, almost half of the country’s maize cultivation. It is also...
The first case of diphtheria in Niger was reported on 17 July 2023. Initially reported in 17 health districts spanning seven out of eight regions, the outbreak has now spread to three additional health districts, namely Agadez, Takieta and Tchirozerine, with...
The Ministry of Health in the United Republic of Tanzania notified the World Health Organization about a cholera outbreak in three regions, namely Arusha, Kigoma, and Mara, in July 2023. On 11 September 2023, Mara region recorded 13 suspected cases, which...
Burundi Cholera Ungraded 1-Jan-23 6-Jan-23 42 0 0.0% An outbreak of cholera has been confirmed in Burundi on 1 January 2023. As of 6 January, 42 suspected cases have been reported with no deaths. Four districts have reported one or several cases: Budjumbura...
On 16 September 2022, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health declared a cholera outbreak in the Harana Buluk and Berbere woredas of Bale Zone, Oromia Region. On 25 September 2022, a total of 16 new cholera cases (14 severe) were reported. There were no new deaths...
The cholera outbreak in Cameroon, officially declared by the Ministry of Health on 15 July 2018, is steadily declining, after peaking in week 29 with 42 cases. In week 32 (week ending 12 August 2018), four new suspected cholera cases were reported, compared...