The Union Home Ministry sanctioned over Rs 947 crore for relief and rehabilitation of nearly 59,000 people displaced by Manipur’s ethnic violence since May 2023. With 217 deaths and widespread damage, efforts now focus on resettlement, housing, and restoring normalcy
Displaced families are returning to Khartoum despite destroyed homes, no basic services, and rising insecurity, months after Sudan’s military claimed to have retaken the capital from RSF forces.
In conflict-hit South Sudan, rare mental health clinics offering crucial counselling risk closure as funding ends. With poverty, displacement and violence fuelling high suicide rates, experts warn the loss of such services could deepen the country’s mental health crisis.
UN humanitarians report worsening fuel shortages, displacement, and malnourishment in Gaza, with restricted aid access and collapsing services deepening the crisis and normalising widespread deprivation across the region.
The attack came as senior U.S. diplomats were in the region to push for cease-fires in Lebanon and Gaza, hoping to wind down the wars in the Middle East in the Biden administration’s final months.
