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Country: Lebanon Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. HIGHLIGHTS Ten-day ceasefire announced. Since 2 March, 2,196 people have been killed and 7,185 others injured. Damage to civilian infrastructure is extensive across southern Lebanon, according to new satellite imagery evidence. Life-saving humanitarian assistance is reaching thousands of affected families, but significant response gaps persist as displacement risks becoming protracted. Situation Overview As of the eve of the ten-day ceasefire announcement, the humanitarian situation in Lebanon continued to deteriorate, with prolonged displacement of people who have fled, leaving everything they own and jobs behind**, and are facing difficulties accessing safe and dignified shelter, and basic services**. As of 16 April, at least one hundred thousand people are estimated remaining in hard-to-reach areas. On 14 April, the town of Tebnine, located in the Bint Jbeil district of southern Lebanon, was subjected to airstrikes that resulted in the deaths of at least five people. The attacks also caused substantial damage to the Tebnine Government Hospital, a major trauma center in the southern Lebanon, significantly impacting its capacity to provide essential medical services. Several surrounding villages were also targeted, resulting in additional casualties, including rescue workers who were injured while responding to emergencies and assisting affected civilians. On 15 April, displacement orders were renewed for areas south of the Zahrani River, directing residents to relocate northward. Hostilities have also been marked by extensive damage to civilian infrastructure across southern Lebanon, including residential buildings, road networks, and other critical infrastructure. Satellite imagery analysis conducted by BBC Verify highlights the magnitude of the destruction, indicating that more than 1,400 buildings have been demolished since 2 March, based on verified visual evidence. Airstrikes targeted the Qasmieh Bridge near Tyre on 16 April, further restricting humanitarian access. The bridge, which represents a key transportation link to the southern part of Lebanon had been partially reopened after sustaining damage in an airstrike one week earlier. Following additional rounds of U.S.-hosted talks between Lebanon and Israel on 16 April, a ten-day ceasefire agreement was announced in the eve of 16 April. While expressing cautious optimism that continued diplomatic engagement may facilitate a lasting peace, authorities have cautioned displaced people about returning to towns and villages as the situation is still fragile.

Country: Solomon Islands Source: Government of Solomon Islands Please refer to the attached file. Since the activation of the MEHRD Emergency Operation Centre, the operations team continues to liaising with the Provincial Education Provider Offices for Choiseul, Western, Isabel and Guadalcanal Provinces. The MEHRD EOC team have prioritised communications for Western and Choiseul through phone calls, emails and WhatApps to get situational update from these provinces. As of today, the Education Provider Teams from Western Province and a team from Choiseul Education Provider officer are all deployed to affected areas identified during the ISO phase. MEHRD EOC 1. Made contacts with Education Providers teams on the ground and updating information of schools reported during the ISO. 2. Submitted the Education Sector 28 Day Immediate Response Plan to the NDOC for review and recommendation for approval. 3. MEHRD EOC team continues to consolidate impact data for coming in from teams on Simbo and Ranogga and South Choiseul 4. Communication between MEHRD EOC and ALL Education Provider Offices is still active.

Country: Papua New Guinea Source: UN Country Team in Papua New Guinea Please refer to the attached file. The national response to Tropical Cyclone Maila continues with priority focus on Milne Bay Province and the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (AROB), under the coordination of the National Disaster Centre’s National Emergency Operations Centre (NDC-NEOC), with ongoing monitoring in East New Britain and West New Britain Provinces. Disaster Management Team (DMT) member agencies under the coordination of the NDC-NEOC are actively responding across affected provinces, supporting government‑led efforts through NEOC and field deployments, assessments, logistics support, and mobilisation of life‑saving relief supplies. Bilateral partners are also contributing to the NEOC-NDC response with essential relief items and logistics support through military assets. In Milne Bay Province, fuel availability for maritime vessels was finally confirmed allowing the deployment of assessment teams and the delivery of immediate life‑saving assistance to affected island communities to commence.

Country: Papua New Guinea Source: UN Country Team in Papua New Guinea Please refer to the attached file. The response is ongoing across Milne Bay Province, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and parts of East and West New Britain, under the coordination of the National Disaster Centre through the National Emergency Operations Centre (NDC‑NEOC). In Bougainville, a State of Emergency has been declared, with significant humanitarian impacts reported, including confirmed fatalities and a large number of people in urgent need of life‑saving assistance. Initial Damage Assessments are being mobilised across affected areas, with government authorities and partners working jointly to establish the scale of needs and prioritise response actions. In East and West New Britain Provinces, while no formal requests for support have been made to date, partners have been deployed in partnership with NDC‑NEOC to support initial assessments and ongoing monitoring. In Milne Bay Province, the commencement of Initial Damage Assessments and immediate response has been delayed. Fuel for vessels and food rations to accompany assessment teams are immediate gaps, as these are essential to enable assessments to proceed alongside the delivery of life‑saving assistance to affected island and coastal communities. Humanitarian partners are encouraged to coordinate response actions with the UNHAT Disaster Management Team (DMT), co‑located at NEOC. Partners intending to dispatch immediate life‑saving relief supplies, and those requiring logistics support, are requested to liaise with the DMT, in coordination with NEOC, to ensure alignment with national priorities and coordinated delivery.

Country: South Sudan Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. As delivered Thank you, Madam President. I pay warm tribute to the legendary Fink Hayson and particularly warm welcome our outstanding colleague, Kiki Gbeho as our new [Special Representative for South Sudan and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan]. Madam President, Visiting South Sudan a few weeks ago, I was told again and again of a feeling of despair and abandonment – and with good reason. The world’s youngest nation stands at a dangerous crossroads. Conflict up. Displacement up. Hunger up. Disease up. Attacks on aid workers up. Funding down. Two out of every three people need humanitarian support this year, yet our hyper-prioritised $1.46 billion Humanitarian Plan is only 22 per cent funded. Madam President, The scale of this despair is most acutely felt in places like Jonglei State, in the northeast, where I spent much of my week. Let me illustrate the challenges there. Since late December, renewed fighting has forced more than a quarter of a million people to flee across multiple states, another 110,000 into Ethiopia. In the town of Akobo, violence has forced aid workers out, cutting communities off from our help when they need it most. When our inter-agency team recently returned to the area two weeks ago, they found more than 140,000 people in dire need of help in the surrounding areas of Akobo County. Humanitarian compounds looted and nutrition centres destroyed. Barely a week later, last weekend, renewed violence in and around Akobo displaced many of those we had just assessed yet again, further challenging our ability to provide critical help. I visited Akobo Hospital. In late February, it was serving more than 100,000 people, including 18-month-old Kool, found with gunshot wounds in both limbs, receiving daily physiotherapy to recover. The ICRC surgeon, Medecins sans Frontieres, and South Sudanese doctors there told me they operate on countless gunshot wounds. They often have to amputate because patients walk such long distances to get treatment, and the wounds, of course, get infected. A few weeks later, I’m afraid, that hospital has been stripped bare. Medicines, equipment, beds – a lifeline for this entire community – all gone. Many of those I met are dead. According to the [World Health Organization], 1.35 million people across Jonglei State have lost access to healthcare after 26 facilities were destroyed or forced to close. Cholera is on the rise. Measles persists. In Jonglei, I met families uprooted again and again. Women told me that they fled extreme violence. Their homes had been burned down. One said people had been “slaughtered like goats.” I met a grandmother who had carried her 19-year-old granddaughter, born paralyzed, for days as they fled fighting. Their story was not unique. Many who I met in Akobo, described carrying elderly during the escape, while others pushed family members with disabilities in wheelbarrows along the way. This is what it looks like when parties defy their obligations to protect civilians and undermine the Revitalised Peace Agreement. And I fear, like Kiki, that the closure of the UN Mission in South Sudan’s temporary base in Akobo this month because of funding shortfalls will exacerbate existing security gaps. This could, in turn, undermine prospects for returns, contribute to further displacement, and limit even further our humanitarian support. Madam President, The situation in Upper Nile State, in the northeast corner, is just as alarming. Fighting, access restrictions, interference with our operations – all are blocking aid. And in parallel, the war in Sudan – with the Kordofan region just across the border – is pushing more people into South Sudan; 439,000 Sudanese refugees, 917,000 returnees. I met South Sudanese returnees who had made the journey from Khartoum to Malakal in Upper Nile, and they described harassment, assault and looting along the way. Now they are trying to reach their villages and families, but insecurity, access constraints and lack of support are holding them back. In the town of Renk, more than 30,000 people have arrived in just three months, almost two thirds of them women. Thousands are stuck in a transit centre with limited basic services. We are hearing reports of older people dying due to severe malnutrition. And hunger across South Sudan is tightening its grip. Emergency levels of food insecurity – what we call IPC phase 4 – are expected for some population across all of South Sudan’s ten states during the lean season from now through July. Madam President, I therefore fear my next briefing to you on South Sudan will speak of famine. More than 7.5 million people will need food assistance this year. All of this is unfolding as floods are expected to continue, cutting communities off and hitting livelihoods – once again. Colleagues, Madam President, In the midst of such challenges, I pay huge tribute to the humanitarians who are delivering. We face hostilities, red tape, checkpoints along key routes imposing high fees, denial of air access, aid workers forced to leave, funding cuts, constant life-and-death decisions. But where we can reach displaced people, we are scaling up food, health, nutrition, shelter and protection. In Jonglei alone, over 113,000 people have already received food just this year. Partners have provided over 14 tons of emergency health supplies. Thousands of water, sanitation and hygiene kits. Air operations, including through the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), remain a critical lifeline, and I have recently allocated $13 million to support UNHAS flights in the country. We are also scaling up anticipatory action, pre-positioning supplies ahead of expected flooding. UNMISS continues to play that vital role through its security presence and in facilitating our critical humanitarian operations. Madam President, To prevent South Sudan from sliding toward full-scale famine and collapse, I call on this Council to take three decisive and immediate actions. First, press for rapid, unhindered humanitarian access, including the immediate removal of red tape, checkpoints, high fees, and the guarantee of predictable,

Country: Burkina Faso Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Please refer to the attached file. Contexte Le Plan national d’action anticipatoire (AA) pour les inondations au Burkina Faso constitue un cadre opérationnel stratégique visant à permettre une mobilisation rapide, cohérente et fondée sur des données des acteurs humanitaires, institutionnels et techniques avant la manifestation d’un aléa hydrométéorologique majeur. Élaboré dans une logique de réduction des risques et d’anticipation fondée sur les prévisions, ce dispositif permet l’activation précoce de mesures préapprouvées destinées à atténuer les impacts sur les populations les plus vulnérables, notamment celles résidant dans les zones exposées à des crues saisonnières, des débordements fluviaux ou des épisodes pluviométriques extrêmes. L’activation du déclencheur le 08 septembre 2025, basé sur l’analyse des prévisions hydrologiques et des seuils d’impact, a permis la mise en oeuvre coordonnée d’interventions anticipatives par les partenaires opérationnels. Cette activation a mobilisé plusieurs composantes du cadre, notamment la coordination interacteurs, la mise en oeuvre des actions sectorielles anticipées, l’utilisation des outils de suivi du FHRAOC, ainsi que la gestion des flux de financement dédiés aux activités AA. Dans cette perspective, l’organisation d’une Revue Après Action (After-Action-Review ; AAR) répond à la nécessité d’évaluer de manière systématique l’ensemble du processus, en incluant : La pertinence et l’efficacité de la mise en oeuvre opérationnelle ; Le degré de cohérence et de fluidité de la coordination entre les partenaires ; La qualité des mécanismes de redevabilité et de prise en compte des retours communautaires ; La performance des modalités de suivi, de reporting et de gestion des financements ; L’identification des goulots d’étranglement, risques résiduels et opportunités d’amélioration structurelle.