Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 14th - 20th June 2025  

14^th - 20^th June 2025  

 

Regional Hazards

China and Vietnam

China, Viet Nam - Tropical storm WUTIP, update (GDACS, media, NOAA-CPC, CMA - China Meteorological Administration) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 June 2025) - China | ReliefWeb

• Severe Tropical Storm Wutip makes landfall near Leizhou City in Guangdong after leaving 4 dead in Vietnam - The Watchers

 

Country Hazards

Angola

Angola - Conflict in Cabinda province (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 June 2025) - Angola | ReliefWeb

 

Armenia

Armenia - Severe weather (IFRC, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 17 June 2025) - Armenia | ReliefWeb

• Five injured as damaging tornado rips through Aparan, Armenia - The Watchers

 

Austria

Austria - Severe weather (media, Wetter ORF) 17 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Three hikers killed by lightning while descending Mittagsspitze mountain in Austrian Alps - The Watchers

 

Brazil

Brazil - Floods (INMET Brazil, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 June 2025) - Brazil | ReliefWeb

 

Cameroon

Cameroon - Severe weather (UN OCHA, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 June 2025) - Cameroon | ReliefWeb

 

China

Water levels in Huaiji, Guangdong reaches highest on record, prompting Level I emergency - The Watchers

 

Colombia

Colombia - Landslide (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 17 June 2025) - Colombia | ReliefWeb

 

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo - Floods, update (NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 June 2025) - Democratic Republic of the Congo | ReliefWeb

• Congo death toll hits 77 after extreme weather brings floods and sinks boats, 107 remain missing | AP News

 

India

Air India crash: Death toll climbs to 270 | AP News

India - Severe weather and floods (NDMIndia, IMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 June 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

• Van swept away in Botad flash flood, leaving 2 dead and 5 missing amid intense monsoon rains in Gujarat - The Watchers

25 killed in lightning strikes across 14 districts of Uttar Pradesh, India - The Watchers

Seven people killed in India helicopter crash - BBC News

Rusting bridge collapses in Pune, killing four and leaving 18 seriously injured - The Watchers

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Volcanic eruption, update (IFRC, BNPB) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 June 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

• Bali flights cancelled after Indonesia's Lewotobi volcano erupts - BBC News

Severe rainfall causes widespread flooding across Balikpapan City, East Kalimantan, Indonesia - The Watchers

 

Japan

Heatwave kills four in Japan, alerts in place for the coming days - The Watchers

 

Libya

IOM Reports 60 Migrants Missing in Two Deadly Shipwrecks off Libya | International Organization for Migration

 

Mexico

Mexico - Hurricane ERICK, update (NOAA-NHC, GDACS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 June 2025) - Mexico | ReliefWeb

• Hurricane Erick drenches southern Mexico | AP News

 

Mozambique

Mozambique - Increased violence (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 June 2025) - Mozambique | ReliefWeb

 

Myanmar

Myanmar - 3.4 million more people in acute food insecurity (DG ECHO partners) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 June 2025) - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

 

Nigeria

Nigeria - Increased violence in the Northcentral (DG ECHO, DG ECHO partners, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 June 2025) - Nigeria | ReliefWeb

Nigeria - Food and nutrition crisis (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, UNICEF, IPC – Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, IFRC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 18 June 2025) - Nigeria | ReliefWeb

 

Peru

Peru - Earthquake (GDACS, USGS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 June 2025) - Peru | ReliefWeb

• At least 1 fatality, multiple landslides after M6.1 earthquake near Lima, Peru - The Watchers
• Moment people flee church as earthquake interrupts mass in Peru - BBC News

 

South Africa

Death toll in South African floods rises to 92 | AP News

• Winter Arrives Early in Lesotho and South Africa

 

South Sudan

South Sudan: 150,000 people cut off from care as MSF forced to close hospital | MSF UK

 

Syria

Syria - Historic drought impacting food security (DG ECHO, UN OCHA, FAO, WFP) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 June 2025) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb

Syrian landmine casualties set to spiral as school year ends - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb

 

USA

USA - Floods (NOAA WPC, media) 16 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Flash flooding in San Antonio leaves more than a dozen dead
• Death toll from flooding climbs to 6 in West Virginia | AP News
• Houses and roads destroyed by flash flooding in West Virginia - BBC News

USA - Wildfires, update (FEMA, JRC-GWIS, media)

• NASA: New Mexico Battles Wildfires

Severe storms leave nearly 1.2 million without power across central U.S. on June 18 - The Watchers

 

Yemen

YEMEN: Nearly half the population in Government-controlled areas facing high levels of acute food insecurity | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

• Yemen: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for May - August 2025 and Projection for September 2025 – February 2026 (partial analysis) | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Other items of interest

Global

Guterres to launch life-saving campaign strengthening mine action worldwide | UN News

Global Peace Index 2025 - World | ReliefWeb

• Global Peace Index 2025

Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) Insight Report - April 2025 - World | ReliefWeb

Policy brief: loss and damage | UNDRR

FAO and WFP early warning report reveals worsening hunger in 13 hotspots; five with immediate risk of starvation

Hunger, Harm, and Hard Choices - The cost of the humanitarian funding crisis for children - World | ReliefWeb

The WHO Hub in Berlin: driving innovation to make the world safer from health threats

Civilian deaths in conflict are surging, warns UN human rights office | UN News

• 22,495 Haunting Cries: Children Affected by Conflict Endured an Unconscionable Number of Grave Violations in 2024 – Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict
• Long after the guns fall silent, conflict-related sexual violence leaves lasting scars | UN News

Make midwives universally accessible and save millions of lives, WHO urges | UN News

• WHO issues first global guideline to improve pregnancy care for women with sickle cell disease

G20 South Africa – G20 South Africa

• G20 Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction | G20 Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction

 

Regional

Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health

Destination Earth | Shaping Europe’s digital future

• Destination Earth Factsheet | Shaping Europe’s digital future
• The European Green Deal - European Commission
• A European strategy for data | Shaping Europe’s digital future
• Open data | Shaping Europe’s digital future
• Destination Earth | Building a highly accurate digital twin of the Earth

FAO study reveals alarming agricultural land degradation in the Arab region

ECDC releases risk assessment with actions needed to address spike in hepatitis A cases

 

Country

ASF Detected in North Rhine-Westphalia: Germany Confirms New Wild Boar Case - Swineweb.com - Complete Swine News, Markets, Commentary, and Technical Info

As famine looms in Gaza, pregnant women and newborns face life-threatening health risks

More Gazans killed trying to get food, healthcare near to ‘full disaster’ | UN News

Canadian Food Inspection Agency finds rare disease at B.C. commercial pigeon premises - Coast Reporter

Thailand – Floods (ADINet, TMD) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 June 2025) - Thailand | ReliefWeb

Italy - Severe weather and floods (METEO AM, media) 18 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Greece - Wildfire (JRC EFFIS, media) 17 June 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

• Large wildfire prompts evacuations in Marathon, Attica, Greece - The Watchers

Introduction to semanticClimate resources for climate knowledge | #semanticClimate

 

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Coleman CH, Khadem A, Reeder JC, Sillo HB, Gaspar R, Reis A. A World Health Organization tool for assessing research ethics oversight systems. Bull World Health Organ. 2025 Jun 1;103(6):403-409. doi: 10.2471/BLT.24.292219. Epub 2025 May 3. PMID: 40511399; PMCID: PMC12161159.
• Ziadat, F., Conchedda, G., Haddad, F., Njeru, J., Brès, A., Dawelbait, M., & Li, L. (2025). Desertification and Agrifood Systems: Restoration of Degraded Agricultural Lands in the Arab Region. Agriculture, 15(12), 1249. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture15121249
• Ortiz N, Rodriguez LR, McPherson M, et al. Clade II Mpox Infections Among Cruise Ship Passengers and Crew Members — United States, 2024. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:373–378. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7422a1.