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In the month of January, Russia has attacked and struck many Ukrainian buildings, homes and hospitals in such areas as Donetsk, in the cities of Kyiv and Kherson. Ukraine has countered with an attack on Russian military vessels. As of late, Ukraine offensive have continued to strike storage and oil depots, while destroying key bridges to decrease Russian supplies in the Belgorod, Kursk and Rostov regions.

Ukraine has stated that as of February that there have been 31K Ukrainian forces casualities.

The IC support for Ukraine has remained constant from such countries as UK, US and Switerzerland.

Humanitarian agencies have assisted millions of Ukrainians that have escaped the Russian-led war within Ukraine. As of February, there are over 6.5M Ukrainians refugees world-wide and of them 6M take refuge in EU countries. Other countries such as French Guinea has hosted less then 100k, while surprisely between 500K to 1M Ukrainians fled to Russia.

In the country of Ukraine, at least 4M remained, in which humanitarian agencies seek aid. The largest numbers are displaced in Dnipropetrovska, followed by Kharkivska, each with over 400K Ukrainian IDPs'.

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There has been many incidents concerning humanitarin distribution in Gaza. Early in the year, a stamped occured while people were line up to receive aid, resulting in the US building a temporay pier to supply aid to the displaced Palenstians. Over 800,000 Gazans are mostly in the city of Rafa, while a total of 117.3 displaced in Gaza.

In an effort to reduce casualites, Israel has warned Palestinians to flee toward Rafah, the southern most part of Gaza in an effort to diminish casualties.

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The quest for territory in Somalia continues with traded attacks with Al-Shabab. In February, four people were killed in Mogadishu by a Al-Shabab bomber. Also, Somali governance struck the Al-Shabab military in central Somalia that caused at least 20 fatalities. Other warring and deaths continue to occur.

In addition, an agreement between Ethiopia and Somaliland would give Ethiopia access to its' sea area, thus the build of a probable military base. Somaliland is not recognized by the Somali governance and discourages any such collaboration. As of a result, Somali ally, Egypt goverance has shipped weapons to the Somalian government defense from Ethiopia, Somaliland and Al-Shabab.

As of February, there are 2.9 IDP Somalian peoples.

The recent floods, in September caused cholera to breakout evernmore in the regions of Mogadisha, Beleweyne, and Baidoa from contaminated flood water.

Also, drought, food insecurity, and flooding, cause many Somalians to flea to surronding countries such as Ethiopia, which has over 300K Somalian refugees, and in Yemen, over 45K.

In addition, the Al-Shabab militant group attacked and seized a humanitarian helicopter that was in operation.

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The Yemen Iran-backed Houthis continue to strike vessels along the Red Sea route of commerce for shipping. US and UK forces have continued to intercept those strikes, however, several of the vessels have been struck, such as the UK bulk carrier on Feb. 18th. As a result of this strike, for many days the vessels linked oil that was 18 miles long. As of March 3rd, the ship sank into the sea. In June, a Singapore vessel, called the Sounion was attacked in late August and remained on fire for days until it was extinguished. and towed away mid-September. Overall, the Houthis have attacked over 80 vessels.

These attacks are effecting the commerce of cargo, oil and other shipping along the corridor of the Red Sea.

Humanitarian agencies state that there are over 4.5M IDPs' in Yemen as of February, however there are numerous countries, who flee into Yemen, such as the 64% of the displaced who flee from Somalia to flea persecution, seek better opportunities, or from natural disaster.

The ongoing strikes, from the Houthis is disrupting the cargo, military and other forms of transport, including humanitarian aid, along the Red Sea corridor.

There have been 20 UN workers who have been held hostage by the Houthis, in which 9 have been taken captive, as of late.

Measle and cholera outbreaks have occured from flooding.

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In the Mindanao region, conflict continues in Bilar, La Castellana, and in the Mindanao region (Carmen, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Shariff Saydona Mustapha, Sultan sa Barongis, Mamasapano, Pagalungan, and Rajah Buayan). They continue to want independence from the Philippinian governance.

Externally, in March, a Philippian military chartered vessel was hit by a Coast Guard Chinese (CCG) vessel in the northern area of the Philippines and as earlier as September the CCG has taunted the Philippines fishboats and vessels in the contested South China Sea.

They were indirectly involved in the Hamas-Israel war along the Red Sea, which caused the fatality of two Filipinos who were on a vessel (True Confidence) that was struck by the Houthis.

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There were several incidents of flooding in Region XI, a tornado in Region VI and rogue waves that affected over 150 people in the city of Zambonga City, in Region IX.

In Febraury, in the Davao province of Mindanao, there were severe landslides. These earth moving events caused 54 deaths.

Typhoon Gaemi, in July caused landslides, and severe flooding which displaced people and killed over 30.

In September, the storm Yagi, killed over 20 people, who were mostly affecting in the Rizal and Luzon areas.

Flooding occured in the month of January and February. Of those displaced, there were over 800,000 people in the southern regions of Mindanao and Davao de Oro province.

Manila, in the Luzon province which had the most flooding, in July had over 600,000 people displaced.

From the storm Yagi, in September, there were over 47,000 people displaced.

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Sources: Most raw data stats are from CC-BY-IGO datasets (OOP, HDX). Most of news is historical knowledge. Other is public domain news sources.

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