Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 24th –30th  May 2025

24^th –30^th  May 2025

 

Global Hazards

COVID-19 - Global Situation | Disease Outbreak News | WHO

 

Regional Hazards

Sudan, Egypt, South Sudan, Chad, Ethiopia, Libya and the Central African Republic

Sudan conflict triggers regional health crisis, warns WHO | UN News

 

Country Hazards

Argentina

Argentina - Severe weather and floods (media, SMN Argentina) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 May 2025) - Argentina | ReliefWeb

 

Australia

Wild weather causes dust storms, rough seas and power outages across SA - ABC News

• Australia - Floods, update (IFRC, Australian MS BOM, BOM) 27 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash
• Severe dust storm impacts air quality across Greater Sydney, Australia - The Watchers
• Warning for SA coastline as abnormally high tide lashes beaches and jetties - ABC News

 

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Rats thrive in Sarajevo as rising diseases cause crisis - BBC News

 

Cambodia

Cambodia reports 11-year-old boy is country's fourth bird flu death this year | AP News

 

Canada

Canada - Wildfires, update 29 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• The Canadian province of Manitoba declares a state of emergency over wildfires | AP News

 

Chile

Chile - Severe weather (IFRC, media, Dirección Meteorológica de Chile) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 May 2025) - Chile | ReliefWeb

• Rare tornado strikes Puerto Varas, Chile, injuring 8 and causing widespread damage - The Watchers

 

China

At least five reported killed in large explosion at China chemical plant | Environment News | Al Jazeera

Eight killed by floods and mudslides in Guangxi, China - The Watchers

 

Democratic Republic of Congo

Escalating violence drives food crisis across eastern DR Congo, warns WFP | UN News

• As more people are driven from their homes in DRC food insecurity worsens, creating heightened humanitarian needs regionally | World Food Programme

 

El Salvador

El Salvador - Coastal floods (media, Gerencia de Meteorología) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 May 2025) - El Salvador | ReliefWeb

 

India

Unseasonal rains leave 24 dead in Maharashtra, Red alerts still in place - The Watchers

India - Severe weather (NDMI, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 May 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

Kerala: India state on alert after ship carrying hazardous cargo capsizes - BBC News

 

Indonesia

Officials say at least 10 people are dead and 6 are missing after stone quarry collapse in Indonesia - ABC News

Indonesia - Floods (ADINet, BMKG) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 May 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

Indonesia - Earthquake, update (BNPB) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 May 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

 

Lebanon

Lebanon: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for April - June 2025 and Projection for July - October 2025 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Libya

11 Sudanese migrants killed in car crash in Libyan desert | AP News

At least 7 Sudanese migrants found dead after being stranded in Libyan desert | AP News

 

Mexico

Mexico - Floods (media, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 29 May 2025) - Mexico | ReliefWeb

 

Myanmar

UNHCR fears extreme desperation led to deaths of 427 Rohingya at sea | UNHCR

 

Nepal

Nepal - Severe Weather (DRR portal, Meteorological Forecasting Division - Nepal) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 May 2025) - Nepal | ReliefWeb

 

Nigeria

Nigeria - Floods (IFRC, media, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 May 2025) - Nigeria | ReliefWeb

Nigeria - Increased violence in the Northcentral (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 May 2025) - Nigeria | ReliefWeb

 

Pakistan

Pakistan - Severe weather (DG ECHO, National Disaster Preparedness authorities-NDMA, Provincial Disaster preparedness authorities (PDMA), Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 May 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

• Severe storms kill at least 20, injure over 150 in Pakistan’s Punjab province - The Watchers

Pakistan - Severe weather (media, PMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 May 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

 

Papua New Guinea

Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) - Papua New Guinea | Disease Outbreak News | WHO

 

Paraguay

Paraguay - Severe weather (media, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 29 May 2025) - Paraguay | ReliefWeb

 

Philippines

Philippines - Severe weather and floods, update (DROMIC DSWD, PAGASA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 28 May 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

Philippines - Severe weather and floods, update (DROMIC DSWD, NDRRMC, PAGASA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 May 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

 

Romania

Romania - Floods, update (media, MeteoRomania) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 May 2025) - Romania | ReliefWeb

 

South Korea

South Korean navy plane crashes in southeastern city of Pohang, killing 4 | AP News

 

Spain

7 women and girls die in migrant boat capsizing near shore of Canary Islands | AP News

 

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Abandoned boat and 11 bodies found in eastern Caribbean with Mali passports | AP News

 

Sudan

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say | AP News

• Sudan war exacerbates risk of cholera and malaria: UNICEF | UN News
• Sudan reports 70 cholera deaths in Khartoum in two days | Sudan war News | Al Jazeera

 

Switzerland

Switzerland - Landslide, update (media, UNDRR, MeteoSwiss) 30 May 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Search suspended for missing man in Swiss village after glacier collapse | AP News

Bodies of five skiers found near Switzerland's Zermatt resort - BBC News

 

Syria

A new landmine crisis in the Middle East | MAG

• Syrians face staggering needs amid insecurity and healthcare crisis | UN News

 

Thailand

WHO: Disease Outbreak News - Anthrax – Thailand

 

USA

2 killed and dozens injured in Greyhound bus crash in Tennessee | AP News

 

Other items of interest

Global

Real cost of disasters is 10 times higher than previously thought, says UN | UN News

• Global Assessment Report (GAR) 2025 Resilience Pays: Investing and Financing for Our Future | UNDRR

Tutorials for monitoring the Sendai Framework | UNDRR

WFP’s evidence base on Anticipatory Action 2015-2024 | World Food Programme

• 10 Years of Action: Anticipatory Action. Year in Focus 2024 | World Food Programme
• 2025 – Saving lives, time and money: Evidence from anticipatory action | World Food Programme
• WFP and UNICEF fight child wasting where it hits hardest | World Food Programme

The five components for effective early warning communication | REAP

• The REAP Compendium of Visualizations on Early Warning and Early Action | REAP
• Policy Brief: Enhancing Finance for People-Centred Early Warning Systems | REAP

Climate change: World Likely to Breach 1.5°C limit in next five years | UN News

Biodiversity loss demands urgent global action, says UN chief | UN News

Pandemics to pollution: WHO Assembly delivers landmark health decisions | UN News

• ‘A silent crisis’: Obstetric fistula affects 500,000 women, yet it’s fully treatable | UN News
• WHO outlines recommendations to protect infants against RSV – respiratory syncytial virus
• WHO calls for urgent action to ban flavoured tobacco and nicotine products
• What’s your poison? Alcohol linked to higher risk of pancreatic cancer | UN News

WHO: Strengthening the evidence-base for public health and social measures

 

Regional

Learning Support for a Sub-Saharan Africa Multi-Country Climate Resilience Programme for Food Security | International Food Policy Research Institute IFPRI

• World Hunger Day: Drought driving hunger and desperation in the Horn of Africa | IFRC

As climate change in Africa forces more people from their homes, a new IFRC report says people can — and must — have more and better choices when it comes to their future | IFRC

• Forced to Flee in a Changing Climate | IFRC

Public health risk of yellow fever remains high in the Americas due to continued occurrence of human cases - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

EU capabilities in space: Scenarios for space security by 2050

 

Country

Brazil - Floods and landslides (media, INMET) (ECHO Daily Flash of 30 May 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

Second suspected sabotage in France as power cut hits Nice - BBC News

Ship carrying oil and hazardous cargo sinks off Kerala coast | Shipping | Al Jazeera

Shrinking health services put mothers and newborns at risk in Za’atari Refugee Camp, warns the IRC - Jordan | ReliefWeb

Thousands flee homes in Mozambique as conflict and disasters fuel worsening crisis | UN News

• UNHCR: New displacement and funding squeeze intensify Mozambique crisis | UNHCR

Thailand - Floods (ADINet, TMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 26 May 2025) - Thailand | ReliefWeb

Liverpool parade updates: Crash suspect being questioned by police - BBC News

Moment SpaceX Starship spins out of control in test flight - BBC News

Vietnam - Floods (ADINet, NCHMF Vietnam) (ECHO Daily Flash of 27 May 2025) - Viet Nam | ReliefWeb

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Lambrou AS, South E, Midgley CM, et al. Update on the Epidemiology of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus — Worldwide, 2017–2023. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:313–320. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7419a1.
• Varo, R., Sitoe, A., Madrid, L. et al. Host biomarkers and parasite biomass are associated with severe malaria in Mozambican children: a case–control study. Sci Rep 15, 14262 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-98154-1
• Bohn, F. J., et al..: Reviews and syntheses: Current perspectives on biosphere research 2024–2025 – eight findings from ecology, sociology, and economics, Biogeosciences, 22, 2425–2460, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-2425-2025, 2025.
• KPMG AS (2025). ‘Early Action: The State of Play 2024’, Risk-informed Early Action Partnership, Geneva. https://www. early-action-reap.org/early-action-state-play-2024-0
• Gonzales, Teresa; et al. 2024. How can anticipatory action programming support women? Application of the reach-benefit-empower-transform framework in Nepal and Nigeria. International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). Discussion Paper 2298. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162956