Since March 2015 there has been war in Yemen. Three years later, more than 20 million people - 80% of the population – are in need of humanitarian aid.

Drought and fighting led to hunger in parts of East Africa. Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Sudan are particularly affected.

Millions of people in Syria are in urgent need of humanitarian aid. Since 2012, action medeor has supplied life-saving drugs.

The earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 will go down in the records as the most devastating disaster in the history of the Himalayan state.

Droughts, flooding and a coffee rust crisis in Central America led to crop failures, malnutrition and poverty in 2014.

More than a year after the outbreak of the pandemic in West Africa, over 22,000 people are now said to be infected with Ebola.

In December 2013 a conflict between the Dinka and Nuer tribes, which had been brewing for a long time, escalated into open violence.

Next to flooding along the Indus, the southeast of Pakistan frequently suffers periods of extreme drought.

Pakistan is highly prone to natural disasters. Almost every year, heavy monsoon rains result in serious flooding.

Geography and geophysical conditions make the Philippines highly vulnerable to regular natural disasters.