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16th January - 22th January 2026
Regional Hazards
Mozambique, South Africa & Zimbabwe
Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe - Severe weather and floods, update (INGD, Copernicus EMSR, NOAA Southern Africa, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 19 January 2026) - Mozambique | ReliefWeb
Switzerland & Austria
Austria and Switzerland - Snow avalanches (media, ORF Meteo, Avalanche Salzburg, Meteo Swiss)(ECHO Daily Flash)
Country Hazards
Australia
Australia - Severe weather and floods, update (media, Australian BOM)(ECHO Daily Flash)
Surfer injured in fourth shark attack in Australian state in 48 hours - BBC News
Bangladesh
Fire at Cox's Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh displaced thousands of Rohingya | AP News
Cameroon
Cameroon - Killings of civilians (DG ECHO, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 January 2026) - Cameroon | ReliefWeb
Chile
Chile – Wildfire (DG ECHO, CONAF IFRC, SENAPRED) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2026) - Chile | ReliefWeb
China
Chinese steel factory officials detained after deadly explosion | AP News
Indonesia
Indonesia - Floods (ADINet, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2026) - Indonesia | ReliefWeb
Japan
Rescuers spot wreckage possibly from a helicopter that went missing near a volcano in Japan | AP News
Malawi
Malawi - Weather-related disasters (DG ECHO, Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA), Malawi Red Cross, Health Cluster) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 January 2026) - Malawi | ReliefWeb
Mozambique
Mozambique - Severe weather and floods, update (INGD, Copernicus EMSR, UN OCHA, DG ECHO, NOAA Southern Africa) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2026) - Mozambique | ReliefWeb
New Zealand
Record-breaking rainfall leaves dead and missing in New Zealand - The Watchers
Pakistan
Death toll in Pakistan shopping centre fire rises to at least 60 | Construction News | Al Jazeera
Pakistan - Earthquake (GDACS, USGS, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2026) - Pakistan | ReliefWeb
Peru
Peru - Landslide (media, SENHAMI, NOAA-CPC) (ECHO Daily Flash of 16 January 2026) - Peru | ReliefWeb
Philipines
Philippines - Tropical storm NOKAEN, update (NDRRMC, GDACS, JTWC, PAGASA) (ECHO Daily Flash of 20 January 2026) - Philippines | ReliefWeb
Russia
State of Emergency declared for Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky after extreme snow kills 2, Russia - The Watchers
South Africa
South Africa - Severe weather and floods, update (IFRC, SAWS) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2026) - South Africa | ReliefWeb
South African authorities revise death toll in school bus crash to 12 as driver is arrested | AP News
South Korea
Fire forces dozens to flee shanty town in Guryong village in Seoul | AP News
Spain
Spanish train collision death toll rises to at least 40 | AP News
Barcelona rail crash kills 1 days after deadly train wreck in Spain’s south | Transport News | Al Jazeera
Syria
North-West Syria – Flooding in Displacement Camps (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 21 January 2026) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb
Northeast Syria – Hostilities and Displacement (DG ECHO, DG ECHO Partners, UN OCHA, media) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2026) - Syrian Arab Republic | ReliefWeb
Tunisia
Tunisia – Floods, update (IFRC, Meteo Tunisia) (ECHO Daily Flash of 22 January 2026) - Tunisia | ReliefWeb
USA
Deadly fungus spreads across southern state as health officials warn residents | Fox News
Other items of interest
Global
World enters “era of global water bankruptcy” in post-crisis reality | PreventionWeb
WHO's response to the global mpox outbreak
Oropouche virus research and development roadmap
Insurance and reinsurance under climate stress: managing systemic risk in global supply chains | PreventionWeb
Message for World Leprosy Day 2026
Regional
Public health considerations on the use of doxycycline for post-exposure prophylaxis for bacterial sexually transmitted infections in the EU/EEA
Country
Senegal transforms the childbirth experience through WHO‑recommended care models | WHO | Regional Office for Africa
Haiti explained: why the crisis is deepening — and what comes next | UN News
Over a million in northeastern Nigeria face loss of emergency food aid | AP News
WHO Egypt launches a new national training-of-trainers programme on mass casualty management
Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security - GOV.UK
Türkiye: Analyzing submerged fault structures to predict earthquakes | PreventionWeb
Recent Papers of Note
- Field, R. D., Jethva, H., Wales, P. A., McCabe, T., Henderson, S. B., Clifton, O. E., et al. (2025). A fire-driven shift in Canadian air quality concerns mirrors trends in the US. Earth's Future, 13, e2025EF007041. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF007041. A Fire‐Driven Shift in Canadian Air Quality Concerns Mirrors Trends in the US - Field - 2025 - Earth's Future - Wiley Online Library
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Nakalembe, C. (2026). Lessons From Uganda's Earth Observation-Based Disaster Risk Financing Program. AGU Advances, 7, e2025AV002224. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV002224. Lessons From Uganda's Earth Observation‐Based Disaster Risk Financing Program - Nakalembe - 2026 - AGU Advances - Wiley Online Library
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