International Organization for Migration

Senegalese authorities confirm that at least 34 people lost their lives when a small migrant boat capsized near the Loumpoul dunes, about 180 km north of Dakar. One survivor was rescued from the wreck. Earlier reports had put the death toll at 21, but officials later revised the figure upward. The day before the tragedy, police intercepted 142 migrants on a similar vessel, including women, babies and children from five West African nations. Meanwhile, El Hierro in the Canary Islands has declared a state of emergency after more than 3,300 arrivals on roughly 30 boats since early November.

Around 70,000 tents housing displaced Palestinians were inundated within a 12‑hour period, injuring several people but causing no fatalities. Civil defence services logged roughly 1,500 emergency calls as residents fled flooded camps in Gaza City and the central and northern Strip. The agency, operating without equipment and hampered by fuel shortages, struggles to provide assistance. A Palestinian civil‑society coalition warns the disaster threatens hundreds of thousands and could spark disease outbreaks. The Higher Presidential Committee for Church Affairs in Palestine has appealed for humanitarian aid, citing nearly one million people living in flood‑vulnerable areas.

Airstrikes on the village of Bani Hushaysh east of Sanaa kill 33 people and injure 39, most of them women and children. The attacks shattered the UN‑brokered 2022 truce and have prompted the Saudi‑led coalition to claim it intercepted a Houthi missile aimed at Riyadh province. The Houthi movement says it carried out six operations targeting Saudi oil and military sites. The United Nations estimates more than 1,600 deaths and over 300,000 displaced since fighting resumed in July.