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Falastine, her two younger siblings, and their mother became sick soon after they arrived, two weeks ago, at a camp outside the city of Mogadishu—one of the hundreds of thousands of Somalis displaced from drought-stricken villages.

Never before has the world witnessed such a dramatic scale of human suffering. Today, 65 million people—24 per minute—are displaced worldwide by conflict and persecution. Among them are more than 11 million Syrians uprooted by nearly six years of civil war in their country. In a year of unprecedented crisis, these are the ten most-read stories on Rescue.org.

Only days after Hurricane Katrina destroyed a swath of the Gulf Coast in August 2005, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ dispatched an emergency team of relief experts to Louisiana. For the first time in its 73-year history, the organization responded to a humanitarian crisis in the United States. 

Up to 82% of fragile and conflict affected states - or up to 4 in 5 - are off track to achieve Sustainable Development Goal targets according to a new report by the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ and the Overseas Development Institute.

Under ESS10, the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ has developed a Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP). The SEP summarizes the outcomes of 20 national and international stakeholder consultations conducted between October 2023 and March 2024. These consultations confirmed that the proposed budget activities align with Lebanon's existing needs and priorities, thereby affirming the project's relevance.