The cyclone has caused widespread damage: more than 470,000 people have been affected and more than 35,000 remain displaced.
Combined with the impact of Tropical Cyclone Fytia, which made landfall on January 31, the total number of people affected by the two cyclones exceeds 680,000.
UN provides support
According to a positive forecast, Cyclone Gezani is expected to gradually weaken in the coming days.
Following aerial assessments over Madagascar, it is estimated that some $49 million is urgently needed to help 382,000 people over the next two and a half months.
At the request of the Government, United Nations agencies deployed additional teams to strengthen coordination. The Southern African Development Community and the European Union also deployed teams on Monday.
The UN and its partners thanked donors and Member States who have shown solidarity with the people of Madagascar by funding life-saving food, water and sanitation, healthcare, protection, nutrition and shelter, among other essential services for Malagasy people in need.
Gaza medical evacuations continue in ‘limited numbers’, UN Humanitarian Affairs report
Since Monday, 55 patients and 72 companions have been medically evacuated from Gaza, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners. Three-quarters of the evacuations took place at the Rafah crossing and a quarter via Kerem Shalom.
Since the reopening of the Rafah crossing this month, almost 260 patients have been evacuated via the two routes. However, the number of people needing treatment that cannot be obtained in Gaza remains high: 18,500.
While the WHO continues to call for the reopening of the medical referral route to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, its priority is to expand local health services and rehabilitate damaged facilities to reduce the need for evacuations.
Food and agricultural assistance
Meanwhile, more than 1,800 metric tons of animal feed and more than 2,300 veterinary kits have been distributed to Gaza farmers in the past four months, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture agency (FAO).
The war in Gaza has caused widespread destruction of agricultural infrastructure. Between October 2023 and November 2025, livestock survival rates fell to 33 percent for goats and 20 percent for sheep, while around 37 percent of cropland is now accessible for cultivation.
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, has re-emphasized increasing the entry of a wide range of humanitarian supplies and equipment and unimpeded operation to ensure that the needs of the people of Gaza are met.
Reverend Jesse Jackson at the United Nations headquarters in New York after speaking at an event to celebrate “A Decade of Recognizing the Contributions, Achievements and Challenges of People of African Descent Around the World.”
UN mourns civil rights giant Reverend Jesse Jackson
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed his sadness at the death of Reverend Jesse Jackson, a giant of the civil rights movement in the United States and a veteran defender of human rights, equality and justice around the world, who died on Tuesday at the age of 84.
“Reverend Jackson lent his powerful voice to the UN’s work against racism, against apartheid and for human rights,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, told reporters in New York.
The Secretary General expressed his deepest condolences to his family, his loved ones, his friends, as well as to the Government and people of the United States.
Jesse Jackson at United Nations Headquarters
On a visit to the United Nations in March 2018, Rev. Jackson spoke at an event commemorating the contributions of people of African descent around the world and said that racial idolatry “manifests itself in many ways, including in our politics.”
talking to UN NewsThe civil rights leader said “it must be a massive global coalition of consciences” to eliminate racial discrimination.
“We have globalized capital, we have globalized technology (…) Now we must globalize human rights: workers’ rights; women’s rights; children’s rights; and environmental security. We must globalize all the values that make life ‘life’ for everyone.”
Listen to the interview here.