The Latest Breaking News from OCHA

Local media have reported that the dam burst on Saturday night due to heavy seasonal rainfall in the northeast.

IDF launches waves of what it calls ‘pre-emptive’ strikes into Lebanon as Hezbollah fires hundreds of rockets in major escalation of tensions

Wolde Meressa lives cheek by jowl in a cramped classroom with 30 other people in a school that has been converted into a shelter for displaced people in Ethiopia's war-scarred region of Tigray.

A Libyan court on Sunday handed jail sentences to more than 10 current and former officials for their links to the deadly collapse of two dams outside the coastal city of Derna in September. The resulting flood killed thousands of people, according to the World Health Organization.

Locals searching for the missing dig through mud by hand after more than 257 people were killed in the disaster.

Palestinian officials say at least 30 killed in strike on school in Deir al-Balah where thousands were seeking shelter

An Israeli air strike hit a school housing a field hospital in central Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 30 people and wounding more than 100, said the health ministry in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory. The Israeli military said its strike targeted Hamas "terrorists" operating from the school.

‘About 182,000 people’ displaced from central and eastern Khan Younis from Monday – Thursday, UN OCHA says.

Weeping families packed homes in a southern remote part of Ethiopia on Friday to bid farewell to relatives killed following a devastating landslide, as authorities announced three days of mourning.