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Aid agencies and Colombian authorities are scaling up relief after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed 241 people and affected more than 49,000 across 13 departments.

U.N. agencies warn that more than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan could lose food and nutrition support within weeks as humanitarian funding gaps widen across multiple African crises.

Aid agencies and Colombian authorities are scaling up relief after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake killed 241 people, injured 3,771, and affected more than 49,000 people across 13 departments.

OCHA and WHO say repeated displacement, attacks on health care and damage to civilian infrastructure are worsening water access, health services and humanitarian needs in Gaza and Lebanon.

UNICEF and WHO say cholera and Ebola outbreaks spanning multiple countries are increasing pressure on cross-border surveillance and humanitarian response in parts of Africa.

A 42-truck convoy carrying 1,900 tonnes of food and nutrition supplies arrived in El Fasher, North Darfur, after weeks of access negotiation.

Heavy monsoon rains have displaced more than 400,000 people across three South Asian states, with field hospitals and health posts reporting critical supply shortages.

A third of health clinics surveyed in high-burden districts are reporting stockouts of antimalarials and rapid diagnostic tests at the peak of transmission season.

Families fleeing fighting are facing growing protection risks along eastern corridors, from separation at checkpoints to unexploded ordnance on informal routes.

The FAO food price index ticked upward in July, with wheat and vegetable oils leading gains on export restrictions and weather damage to harvests.

Cash-for-work programmes across the Sahel are restoring degraded land while putting incomes into the hands of drought-affected communities.

Donors pledged $820 million in new funding at the annual humanitarian financing conference, covering about a third of the global response appeal shortfall.