WorldsAidWorldsAid intelligence
Verified humanitarian updates across ASIA, with maps and attributed sources.
AfghanistanAfghanistan is entering the 2026–2027 winter lean season with a deepening hunger and malnutrition crisis. The World Food Programme (WFP) projects that 19.2 million people — nearly 40 percent of the population — will experience acute food insecurity, up from 17.4 million a year earlier. Around 5 million people are expected to face emergency levels of…
GuamSuper Typhoon Champi, locally named Rosal, weakened slightly on 21 October while remaining a powerful cyclone east of northern Luzon. At 5 p.m. Philippine time, PAGASA located the centre about 725 kilometres east of Aparri, Cagayan, with maximum sustained winds of 205 km/h and gusts up to 250 km/h. Tropical Cyclone Wind Signals Nos. 1 and 2 remained…
NepalA destructive flash flood swept through the Budhi Gandaki river corridor in Nepal’s Gorkha district early on 11 October 2026 after a landslide appears to have temporarily blocked the river near Chumchet and the natural dam failed. Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority (NDRRMA) ordered evacuations and warned people downstream…
NepalA flash flood on the Budhi Gandaki River swept away homes and bridges in Nepal’s Gorkha district on 11 October 2026. The Associated Press reported at least five people missing and 49 rescued by the Nepal Army. Those preliminary rescue and missing-person reports do not establish an affected-population total. Nepal’s Centre of Hydrology and Water Resources…
IndonesiaA shallow offshore earthquake struck southwest of Kodi in Southwest Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, on 4 October 2026. BMKG’s initial event card listed magnitude 6.1, 10 km depth and a location 14 km southwest of Kodi; BMKG later updated its analysis to magnitude 5.9, 30 km depth and 59 km southwest of Kodi, and said its tsunami model showed no tsunami…
IndiaHeavy rain in Nepal’s Gandak catchment caused renewed flood pressure along the river basin on 28–29 September 2026. DD India, citing an official Bihar Water Resources Department release, reported two damage sites on the left-bank Champaran embankment and a Bagaha gauge peak of 91.25 metres. A separate 06:00 Bihar Flood Early Warning and Monitoring System…
IndonesiaHeavy rain triggered flooding in Toribulu district, Parigi Moutong, Central Sulawesi, on 27 September 2026. Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said a rapid assessment recorded 160 houses and three public facilities affected in Toribulu Selatan, Tomoli Utara, Sibalago and Singura. BNPB reported that floodwater had receded by its 28…
NepalAn avalanche struck Himlung Himal base camp in Manang, Nepal, on 27 September 2026 during severe weather. Nepal's Armed Police Force (APF) operational series reported 22 people in the affected area: 12 made contact, two bodies were airlifted and eight people remained unaccounted for. A later Nepal National Mountain Guide Association (NNMGA)…
ThailandA DDPM-attributed situation update at 06:00 on 4 October reported 1,171,165 households and 3,262,676 people still affected across 27 provinces and Bangkok, including 154 districts, 1,209 subdistricts and 8,790 villages. This is a later active situation snapshot and is not treated as a correction to the 1 October report of 1,177,404 households / 3,352,395…
IndiaHeavy rain and flooding from 25 to 27 September 2026 caused deaths, injuries and housing damage across Uttar Pradesh. The state Relief Commissioner’s figures reported by Reuters and The Indian Express record 56 deaths, 46 injured and more than 1,000 damaged houses (1,021 in the Indian Express account). The Associated Press separately reports at least 62…
PhilippinesDSWD DROMIC Report #3, as of 29 September 2026 at 18:00 PHT, recorded 2,413 families or 9,165 people affected across 12 barangays in Davao Oriental. The report counted one totally destroyed house in Tarragona and ₱582,342 in DSWD assistance. Banaybanay recorded 845 affected families / 3,042 people, Mati City 201 families / 655 people, and Tarragona 1,367…
NepalHeavy to very heavy rainfall from 24–27 September 2026 triggered floods, landslides and inundation across Nepal. An NDRRMA-attributed report dated 28 September records 21 deaths, five missing and five injured, with 747 families directly affected; nearly 2,000 people moved from high-risk areas, not counted as displaced. A separate NDRRMA Heavy Rainfall…
IndiaFlooding associated with the deep depression over the Bay of Bengal affected southern Odisha in late September 2026. An officials-attributed DD India report on 28 September said more than 100,000 people had been moved from low-lying areas and sheltered in over 500 relief centres across 13 districts. In Balasore district, 67,266 people had been evacuated…
IndonesiaA flash flood struck villages in Kota Agung Barat and Sumberejo districts of Tanggamus regency, Lampung, at about 02:00 WIB on 22 September 2026. Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported 150 households affected. The BNPB assessment recorded 53 houses, two education facilities, three places of worship, 50 hectares of plantation…
YemenConcern and national partners reported supporting health, nutrition, water and sanitation services in Lahj and preparing a targeted emergency response in Taiz as conflict displaced families. The 40,000 people cited in the update are a 2026 target, not a completed reach total. Source report date: 2026-09-22. Reviewed 28 September 2026.
IndiaGDACS classified Tropical Cyclone ONE-26 as an Orange alert with medium humanitarian impact after the system crossed India between 23 and 24 September 2026. The storm reached maximum sustained winds of 83 km/h. On 28 September, GDACS revised its modelled tropical-storm-strength wind exposure from up to 10.7 million to 10.248 million people. No population…
VietnamHeavy rainfall caused flooding across northern and north-central Viet Nam. The Department of Dyke Management and Disaster Prevention and Control reported on 21 September 2026 that three deaths remained confirmed in Phu Tho. Eight houses had collapsed, 144 were damaged and approximately 3,462 houses remained flooded, mainly in Ha Noi and Ninh Binh, down…
JapanJapan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) Report 17, issued 27 September 2026 at 10:00 JST, records 13 deaths and three people missing in connection with Typhoon No. 25 and associated impacts. The report lists four of the deaths as disaster-related. These are cumulative response figures; the report does not establish that the additional deaths…
IndiaTwo people were killed and one woman was seriously injured when a rain-triggered landslide buried a temporary farm shed at Kottakamboor in Vattavada, Idukki district, Kerala, on 20 September 2026. Balakrishnan and his sister Chinnu died; Balakrishnan’s wife Mariyamma was rescued and admitted to hospital. The three had been working on a garlic farm and…
IndiaTwo people died in separate rain-triggered landslips in Kottayam district, Kerala, on 20 September 2026. Near Velathussery on the Erattupetta–Vagamon road at Teekoy, a roadside landslip killed Sangeetha Arul Lal, 35; the woman travelling with her was rescued with injuries and was reported stable. In a separate incident at Peringulam in Poonjar…
PhilippinesFlooding affected six barangays in Licab, Nueva Ecija, after continuous rainfall linked by DSWD to the southwest monsoon and enhanced by Tropical Storm Pilandok. DSWD DROMIC Report #1 recorded 714 families or 2,585 people affected as of 20 September 2026 at 18:00 PHT. The affected barangays were Aquino, Linao, Poblacion Norte, Poblacion Sur, San…
PakistanPakistan's National Disaster Management Authority cumulative monsoon dashboard through 30 September 2026 records 199 deaths, 556 injured people, 1,839 damaged houses and 10,684 people cumulatively rescued or evacuated. The preceding retained observation through 21 September recorded 194 deaths, 548 injured people, 1,832 damaged houses and 10,676 people…
IndiaA sudden flash flood in the Kottapuzha River near TK Colony in Nilambur, Malappuram district, swept away six people on 20 September 2026 after heavy rain upstream. On 22 September, rescuers recovered the body of the last missing person, 26-year-old Sajitha, near Pookkottumpadam at about 12:30 IST. The confirmed death toll therefore reached six and the…
Sri LankaSri Lanka's National Dengue Control Unit reported 99,343 dengue cases and 76 deaths in 2026 as of midnight on 22 September. The national case-fatality rate was 0.077 per cent, and 34 Medical Officer of Health areas were classified as high risk during epidemiological week 37. The Western Province accounted for 52,226 cases, or 52.57 per cent of the…
IndonesiaIndonesia's National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) is continuing the search inside and around the capsized KM Virgo Transport 8 in the Java Sea. The 21 September operational observation was 108 survivors, 15 confirmed deaths and 120 people still missing from the working 243-person manifest. The latest Basarnas reconciliation, reported on 28…