Global Hazards Weekly Bulletin – 9th – 12th September 2025  

9^th – 12^th September 2025  

 

Country Hazards

The Gambia

The Gambia - Flash floods (IFRC, Department of Water Resources, WMO) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 September 2025) - Gambia | ReliefWeb

 

Guatemala

Guatemala: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for May - August 2025 and Projections for September 2025 - January 2026 and February - April 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

India

India - Landslide (IMD, NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 September 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

India - Landslide (IMD, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 September 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

 

Indonesia

Indonesia - Floods, update (BNPB, BMKG, NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 September 2025) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb

• At least 25 people dead or missing after severe floods in Bali and East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia - The Watchers
• Indonesian rescuers search for missing people as devastating floods recede | AP News

 

Japan

Japan - Severe weather (JMA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 10 September 2025) - Japan | ReliefWeb

• Over 1 300 structures damaged, 89 people injured as powerful JEF3 tornado hits Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - The Watchers
• Strongest tornado ever recorded in Japan hits Shizuoka prefecture | Japan | The Guardian

Japan - Severe weather (Japan Meteorological Agency, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 September 2025) - Japan | ReliefWeb

 

Lithuania

Explosions heard in Vilnius after rail cars loaded with gas catch fire | AP News

 

Madagascar

Madagascar - Food insecurity and acute malnutrition (DG ECHO, IPC – Integrated Food Security Phase Classification) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 September 2025) - Madagascar | ReliefWeb

• MADAGASCAR: Cases of child malnutrition jump by 50% as drought crisis worsens | Save the Children International
• Madagascar: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for May - September 2025 and Projections for October 2025 - January 2026 and January - April 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
• Madagascar: Acute Malnutrition Situation for May - September 2025 and Projections for October 2025 - January 2026 and February - April 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Mexico

Mexico crash: At least 10 dead after train hits bus - BBC News

Gas tanker blast kills 8 in Mexico City | AP News

 

Mozambique

Mozambique - Food insecurity and malnutrition (DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA, SETSAN, FEWS NET, FSL Cluster) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 September 2025) - Mozambique | ReliefWeb

• Mozambique: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for April - September 2025 and Projection for October 2025 - February 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification
• Mozambique: Acute Malnutrition Situation for April - September 2025 and Projection for October 2025 - March 2026 | IPC - Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

 

Pakistan

Pakistan - Monsoon season, update (UN OCHA, IFRC, NDMA, NOAA-CPC, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Copernicus EMS) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 September 2025) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb

• Boat capsizes in Pakistan floods, killing nine, authorities say | Reuters
• Pakistan: More than two million evacuated from deadly floods - BBC News
• Monsoon Rains Flood Pakistan- NASA

 

Sri Lanka

At least 15 dead after bus plummets 1,000ft down cliff in Sri Lanka | The Independent

 

Syria

The Syrian Arab Republic: Farmers struggle amid worst agricultural crisis in decades | FAO

 

Thailand

Thailand - Floods and landslides (ADINet, NOAA-CPC, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 9 September 2025) - Thailand | ReliefWeb

 

The Occupied Palestinian Territories

Devastating rate of child malnutrition in the Gaza Strip in August surpasses July record | UNICEF

 

USA

USA - Wildfire (JRC GWIS, media) 10 September 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

 

Other items of interest

Global

‘No ordinary session’: Baerbock opens UN General Assembly with call for courage and reform | UN News

International Day to Protect Education from Attack | United Nations

• Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year | UN News
• 80 million more children benefiting from school meals, WFP reports | UN News

‘Shift the narrative’ on suicide to prevent loss of 720,000 lives annually | UN News

• Suicide worldwide in 2021: global health estimates - WHO

WHO: Global health emergency corps framework

WHO announces the development of guidelines on multiplex testing for integrated testing and address latest evidence specific to HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)

Planetary Peace for Human Security: Responses to Existential Risks in the Anthropocene – Club of Rome

What is South-South cooperation, and can it be the gateway to a fairer world? | UN News

WHO warns that tobacco use is linked to child stunting | WHO

 

Regional

PAHO launches initiative to curb rising suicide rates in the Americas - PAHO/WHO | Pan American Health Organization

Drug-resistant fungus Candidozyma auris confirmed to spread rapidly in European hospitals: ECDC calls for urgent action | ECDC

 

Country

Afghanistan quake: ‘Communities are struggling with basic survival’ | UN News

• Thousands of children at risk of malnutrition after Afghanistan earthquake shutters more health clinics | Save the Children International

Ebola cases in Congo's Kasai province rise | AP News

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation | UN News

Punjab Floods: Secondary Data Analysis Report (September 2025) - India | ReliefWeb

Italy - Severe weather and floods (Italian Civil Protection, MeteoAM, media) 10 September 2025 ECHO Daily Flash

Malaysia - Floods, update (ADINet, METMalaysia) (ECHO Daily Flash of 11 September 2025) - Malaysia | ReliefWeb

‘Wars, disasters, displacement, hunger’ continue to burden Myanmar | UN News

• Attacks on Health Care in Myanmar: 20 August-02 September 2025 - Myanmar | ReliefWeb

Nepal crisis: Army deployed as death toll rises amid political turmoil | UN News

Philippines - Floods (NDRRMC, PAGASA, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 12 September 2025) - Philippines | ReliefWeb

South Sudan: Flooding Situation Flash Update No. 2 (As of 11 September 2025) - South Sudan | ReliefWeb

Attacks on Health Care in Sudan, 20 August - 02 September 2025 - Sudan | ReliefWeb

 

Recent Papers of Note

• Lentini, A., Eklund, G., Corbane, C., Asikainen, T., Ronco, M. et al., Analysis of Risks Europe is facing - An analysis of current and emerging risks Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/0176850, JRC141673 
• O’Halloran A, Habeck JW, Gilmer M, et al. Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations During a High Severity Season — Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Network, United States, 2024–25 Influenza Season. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2025;74:529–537. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7434a1.
• Cremonini L, Georgiadis T. Urban Effects of Climate Change on Elderly Population and the Need for Implementing Urban Policies. Encyclopedia. 2025; 5(3):140. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia5030140
• Fukunaga A., Tarui F., Yoshida T., et al. Health issues treated by emergency medical teams following natural disasters in Japan and their relation to the disaster, Progress in Disaster Science, 2025, 100468, ISSN 2590-0617, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100468
• Roeder, F., et al., Malaria amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Gabon: an application of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models within an interrupted time series (ITS) framework to hospital-based data, International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 54, Issue 5, October 2025, dyaf140, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyaf140