Hurricane Melissa, which began as a tropical storm on 21 October 2025, has rapidly intensified since forming in the Caribbean and evolved into a major Category 5 hurricane with sustained winds of around 280km/h, effectively jumping four levels in 24 hours. 

Hurricane Melissa takes place during a particularly severe storm season. Since May 2025, the NOAA has forecast an above-average hurricane season, predicting between 13–19 named storms with winds of 39mph or higher. 

In 2025, armed violence in the Nueva Prosperina district of Guayaquil escalated to critical levels, with the highest increase seen in the number of homicides. Between January–August 2025, 474 homicides were recorded, representing a 112% increase. 

This report examines the challenges shaping food security and nutrition analysis in Sudan and how these constraints affect the production of reliable and consolidated evidence. The report considers the impact of these barriers on humanitarian response and identifies opportunities to strengthen collective analysis.

This report analyses the challenges and opportunities facing Emergency response rooms (ERRs)’ work in Khartoum state, as explained by ERR members and other national and international responders.

This report draws on secondary data and key informant insights to explore women’s and girls’ access to integrated gender-based violence and reproductive health (GBV-RH) programming in Yemen considering recent funding shortfalls.

This report compares access challenges across Ukrainian raions and oblasts to inform humanitarian responders and support decision-making. It is part of ACAPS’ regular analysis of access constraints, with the latest report published on 8 May 2025.

Bolivia experiences a dry period between June–September each year, with the highest risk of wildfires typically occurring in late September and sometimes extending into October and November.

This report examines whether the earthquake response met critical humanitarian needs according to sectoral thresholds defined by cluster benchmarks, including proxy indicators such as service coverage, market functionality, access to assistance, and what lessons can be drawn. 

This report examines how power manifest­s through six components of partnership, identifying both the practices associated with each component and the perceptions behind these practices. 

This report examines the humanitarian data and analysis landscape in Myanmar to highlight the challenges facing the response that impede evidence-informed programming. 

This report analyses the humanitarian impact of the current drought in Namibia, which has contributed to an increase in food insecurity and malnutrition across the country.

The report aims to complement IPC analyses and facilitate early recognition and coordinated responses to emerging major food and nutrition security crises among humanitarian and development stakeholders.

By highlighting the most pressing pre-earthquake humanitarian needs in Nangarhar province and indicating how the earthquakes may have aggravated these needs, this profile provides insight into the potential scope and scale of the earthquakes’ impact, supporting response planning and prioritisation in the absence of detailed post-earthquake data.

Between 1 January and 27 August 2025, more than 1.9 million Afghans returned from Iran, of whom over half (around 1.1 million) were deported. By comparison, over 906,300 Afghans returned from Iran during all of 2024. 

By highlighting the most pressing, pre-earthquake humanitarian needs in Kunar province and exploring how the earthquake may aggravate these needs, this profile provides insight into the potential scope and scale of the earthquake’s impact.

This report details four distinct yet plausible futures for Ukraine during the upcoming October 2025 to March 2026 cold season. The scenarios focus on how the intersection of war dynamics and seasonal conditions may drive distinct cold-season-related needs throughout the country. 

This report highlights the growing impact of Bureaucratic and Administrative Impediments (BAIs) on humanitarian access in increasingly complex operating environments owing to political fragmentation, legal volatility, and multiauthority control. 

This report explores the dynamics of internal displacement linked to climate and environmental hazards, such as drought, flooding, and desertification, from a granular and intersectional perspective that considers gender, age, and disability.

This report aims to analyse the humanitarian effects triggered by violence-induced livelihood deterioration in El Oro, Ecuador, from May 2024 to May 2025.