United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Alert on June 2, 2026 The United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has issued an urgent global warning: El Niño is developing fast, and its impacts extreme heat, floods, droughts, and food insecurity are set to intensify in the months ahead. Here are the... Read More
Opira Bosco Okot, 26, is a South Sudanese refugee in his final year at university in Kampala. He and his family have felt the impacts of the climate crisis in Uganda and at home. Now, he is working with other young people to take actions In 2017, I ran and... Read More
Last month, Sudan’s Blue Nile State declared a state of emergency following a rash of tribal fighting that reportedly left more than 200 people dead. The conflict was the latest in a decade-long string of clashes in the state, which is perched on the border of Ethiopia and South Sudan.... Read More
The number of people in South Sudan who are going hungry is at the highest level ever, UN agencies said in their latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, issued on Thursday. Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise in areas affected by flood, drought and conflict, and some... Read More
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is urging international support for humanitarian efforts in South Sudan in the face of record-breaking rains and floods for a fourth consecutive year, and the threat of worse to come as the climate crisis accelerates. Two-thirds of the country is currently experiencing flooding. Over 900,000... Read More