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Sudan: RSF offensive in El Fasher displaces seventy thousand as aid corridor talks stall

Rapid Support Forces tightened their offensive perimeter around El Fasher this week, displacing approximately seventy thousand additional residents as humanitarian-corridor negotiations in Jeddah remained at impasse.

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Central Mediterranean crossings spike as calmer seas pull record spring departures from Libya and Tunisia

Italian and Maltese authorities recorded more than 9,400 central Mediterranean arrivals in the first ten days of May, a four-year high for the period, as calmer seas and easing winds reopened a smuggling corridor that had been throttled for most of the Iran war winter.

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Spring shamal buries Iran-Iraq return corridor in dust, pushing respiratory cases to record highs

A 36-hour shamal that swept the Iran-Iraq frontier this week reduced visibility to below 200 meters across returnee transit camps and drove respiratory admissions to the highest levels recorded since the April 15 ceasefire, aid agencies said Thursday.

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Cholera cases cross 6,000 along Iran-Iraq border as mass vaccination drive reaches halfway mark

Laboratory-confirmed and probable cholera cases along the Iran-Iraq returnee corridor passed 6,000 on Wednesday with at least 71 deaths, the World Health Organization said, as a cross-border vaccination campaign reached the halfway mark of its 1.6 million-dose target.

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Schools Reopen Across Southern Iraq and Khuzestan as Returnee Classrooms Strain Under Trauma and Shortages

Provincial education ministries in southern Iraq and Iran's Khuzestan province reopened more than 1,800 schools to returning displaced families on Monday, with aid agencies warning that overcrowded rooms, missing teachers and untreated trauma threaten to swamp the rollout.

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U.N. declares famine in North Darfur as attention shifts back to Sudan after Iran war

The U.N.'s food security body formally declared famine across three localities of North Darfur on Sunday, the first such classification on the African continent in seven years, as donors scramble to redirect attention after months of Iran-war fundraising.

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IPC declares famine across four Sudanese states as aid agencies warn world is looking away

The IPC formally declared famine in four Sudanese states on Saturday, raising the area under confirmed famine fivefold and prompting U.N. officials to warn that donor attention drifting back from the Iran ceasefire was leaving Sudan's catastrophe critically underfunded.

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Returning Iraqi families find homes erased as cross-border resettlement strains aid system

Twelve days after the ceasefire took hold, returning Iraqi and Iranian families are confronting flattened neighborhoods and overwhelmed aid corridors, as UN agencies warn that the post-war humanitarian bill is rising faster than donor pledges.

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Cholera outbreak spreads through returnee camps along Iran-Iraq border as water systems buckle

Confirmed cholera cases jumped past 1,400 across returnee transit sites in Iran's Ilam province and Iraq's Diyala and Maysan governorates this weekend, the World Health Organization said, as damaged water-treatment plants and overcrowded camps fueled the first large outbreak of the post-ceasefire phase.

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Unexploded ordnance deaths mount along Iran-Iraq return corridors as clearance teams race to keep pace

At least 47 civilians have been killed and more than 130 wounded by unexploded ordnance since the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect April 15, the U.N. Mine Action Service said Friday, as the pace of refugee returns continued to outrun clearance crews along the Iran-Iraq border belt.

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Mine Clearance Teams Fan Out Across Iran-Iraq Border as Civilian Casualties Mount in the Aftermath

Seven days after the Iran-Israel ceasefire took effect, demining teams are working across border districts in Iran and Iraq as a rising tally of post-conflict casualties from unexploded munitions threatens to slow the return of displaced families.

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Hodeidah Port Reopens to Aid as Yemen Recovery Eclipses Iran-Iraq Returns in Scale

The first relief vessel cleared Hodeidah's outer roadstead Tuesday morning as the U.N. confirmed Yemen's coastal displacement now rivals the entire Iran-Iraq corridor in scale, six weeks after strikes hollowed out a logistics network that took years to build.

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Unexploded Ordnance Stalls Refugee Returns as Mine-Action Teams Fan Out From Basra to South Lebanon

Five days into the Iran ceasefire, demining teams from four countries began the painstaking work of clearing missile debris, cluster submunitions and damaged ordnance from neighborhoods, fields and roadsides across southern Iraq, southern Lebanon and western Iran.

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First Refugee Returns Begin as Ceasefire Holds, but Aid Groups Warn of Uncertain Conditions

Three days after the ceasefire took effect, the first organized convoys of displaced families began moving back toward Iranian border provinces and southern Iraq, even as aid agencies cautioned that returns were running ahead of conditions on the ground.

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First Returns Begin Along Iran-Iraq Corridors as Aid Agencies Warn Against Rushed Repatriation

The first organized convoys of displaced families began rolling east from Iraqi Kurdistan toward home on Friday as the Iran-Israel ceasefire entered its third day, but UN agencies cautioned that the trickle of returns risked outpacing the unexploded-ordnance surveys and medical assessments needed to make villages habitable again.

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Aid Convoys Roll as Ceasefire Opens Corridors Into Southern Lebanon and Anbar

The first U.N.-coordinated aid convoys crossed into southern Lebanon and western Iraq within hours of the Iran ceasefire taking effect Wednesday, as agencies raced to stabilize more than four million displaced people and to assess return corridors that have been closed for weeks.

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Aid Convoys Stage at Borders as Agencies Race to Pre-Position Relief for Ceasefire Window

Hundreds of aid trucks idled at crossings into Iran, Iraq and southern Lebanon on Tuesday as international agencies raced to pre-position supplies for the first hours after the Islamabad ceasefire takes effect at midnight Wednesday.

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Mental Health Emergency Deepens Across Displacement Camps as Civilians Count Down Anxious Hours to Iran Ceasefire

Aid agencies warned Monday that the 72-hour gap between the Islamabad ceasefire announcement and its scheduled Wednesday start was producing a sharp spike in acute anxiety and trauma cases across displacement sites, with last-minute strikes shaking civilians who had begun, briefly, to hope.

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Ceasefire News Meets Displaced Families With Cautious Relief and Deep Uncertainty

Word of the Islamabad ceasefire reached displacement camps from Erbil to the Bekaa within minutes Sunday, but aid workers said relief among the more than four million people uprooted by six weeks of war was tempered by fear of a fragile pause and a long road home.

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Dialysis and Cancer Patients Trapped Inside Iran as Medical Evacuation Corridors Stall

An estimated 38,000 dialysis patients and tens of thousands of cancer and transplant patients inside Iran have gone weeks without reliable treatment, the World Health Organization said Saturday, as proposed medical-evacuation corridors remained stalled.

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'An Entire School Year Lost': Displaced Children from Iran War Strain Host Systems from Amman to Erbil

More than 410,000 school-age children have been pulled out of classrooms across five countries since the Iran war began, UNICEF said Friday, warning that improvised arrangements in host communities were already buckling under the load.

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At Tamarchin, family separations shadow a quieter Iranian exit into Iraqi Kurdistan

A UNHCR field assessment released Thursday found that roughly one in nine Iranian families reaching the Tamarchin crossing into Iraqi Kurdistan had arrived without at least one member, exposing a quieter but harder displacement channel than the well-documented Turkish route.

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UNICEF Warns of Lost School Year as Displaced Children Across Iraq, Lebanon and Iran Exceed Three Million

More than three million children across Iraq, Lebanon, Iran and Yemen have not been inside a functioning classroom in over a month, UNICEF said Wednesday, warning that the war's youngest casualties were being measured in interrupted brain development and lost literacy.

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Bazargan crossing swells as Iranian families seek refuge in eastern Turkey

Turkey said Tuesday that nearly 38,000 Iranians had entered through the Bazargan border post since the war began, with eastern provinces opening overflow shelters as medical evacuees and pensioners arrive alongside families from the industrial belt.

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Geneva pledging conference falls short as donors commit $820 million against $1.4 billion war appeal

Donor governments meeting in Geneva on Monday pledged $820 million against a $1.4 billion UN appeal for civilians displaced by the Iran war, leaving a 41 percent shortfall that aid chiefs warned would force rationing across four countries within ten days.

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Children Bear Hidden Cost of Iran War, UNICEF Warns as Displaced Camps Shutter Schools

More than 410,000 children across Iraq, Iran, Lebanon and Yemen have been pulled out of school by the war, UNICEF said Sunday, and aid workers warned malnutrition screening rates were collapsing inside the largest camps.

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Cholera and Displacement Compound in Yemen as Houthi-Front Strikes Push Hodeidah to the Edge

A cholera outbreak that resurfaced in February has accelerated through camps around Hodeidah as U.S. and Saudi strikes on Houthi launch sites drive a second wave of displacement, with aid agencies warning that water systems are days from failure.

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Tehran Hospitals Ration Supplies as Blackouts and Strikes Deepen Civilian Toll Inside Iran

Iranian hospitals have begun rationing dialysis sessions and pediatric cancer drugs as rolling blackouts and a fifth week of Israeli strikes push the civilian medical system toward what aid groups described Friday as a cascading failure.

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Iranian cities empty as strikes on industrial belts drive internal displacement

Iranian Red Crescent figures released Thursday put internal displacement at roughly 1.1 million people, with neighborhoods around Isfahan and Bushehr emptying as Israeli strikes on nuclear-adjacent industrial sites continue.

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Displacement Surges Along Iran-Iraq Border as Strikes Enter Second Month

Aid agencies estimated more than 480,000 people have been displaced inside Iran and along the Iraqi border since strikes began a month ago, with shelter capacity in three provinces already exceeded.

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Yemen civilians bear brunt as strikes on Houthi-held areas cut water and power

Aid agencies warned Tuesday that the opening of a Yemeni front in the Iran war has knocked out water and grid power for more than 1.6 million people in Houthi-held areas, with cholera surveillance teams already reporting suspect cases in Hodeidah.

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UN warns Lebanon, Jordan refugee systems near collapse as strikes widen

UNHCR and WHO issued a joint appeal Monday for $1.4 billion in emergency funding, warning that Lebanese and Jordanian aid systems are buckling under a new wave of displacement from southern Lebanon and western Iraq.

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Iraqi Civilians Flee Anbar and Erbil as Strikes Near U.S. Bases Intensify

Tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians fled Anbar and Erbil over the weekend as strikes near U.S. bases intensified, prompting U.N. agencies to track a sharp rise in displacement and Baghdad to appeal for humanitarian corridors.

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Humanitarian Aid Shipments Increase as Regional Conflict Intensifies

Several countries have increased humanitarian aid shipments as civilian needs rise amid ongoing regional conflict.

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