News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 79)
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Only 12 patients a day on average have left Gaza since the Rafah border partially opened. At this current rate, evacuating the 20,000 people needing medical care would take about 4.5 years.
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Most displaced families are sheltering in 28 evacuation centres across 16 districts and four regions. The government has declared a national state of emergency in response to the crisis.
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The UN Special Envoy for Yemen on Thursday welcomed recent steps to bolster stability and improve living conditions, but told the Security Council that only a renewed political process can end the countryâs long-running conflict.
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Funding has reached its lowest level since independence, forcing a fundamental reset. In
2025, partners received less than half of funding needs, resulting in scaled-back operations and ration cuts.
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Escalating aerial attacks in Sudan are killing children, damaging schools and striking United Nations facilities, placing civilians and humanitarian workers at growing risk, the UN warned on Wednesday.
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Heavy downpours in several countries have affected more than 1.3 million people, destroying houses and critical infrastructure and disrupting access to health and education services.
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Relentless violence, famine and disease are fuelling a rising death toll among children in Sudan, while attacks on healthcare and a lack of aid access hamper efforts to help them, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday.
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UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk appealed on Tuesday to all parties involved in renewed heavy fighting in Ethiopiaâs âprecariousâ Tigray region to step back, warning of the potential for a deepening crisis in the countryâs war-weary north and beyond.
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As the brutal Sudan war shows no signs of ending, UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk on Monday called on the international community to intervene immediately to stop more mass killings and other flagrant war crimes against civilians.
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Severe flooding triggered by heavy rainfall has hit northwest Syria, killing two children and affecting more than 5,000 displaced people, the UN said on Monday.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres voiced grave concern on Monday over the reported decision by the Israeli security cabinet to authorize a series of administrative and enforcement measures in Areas A and B in the occupied West Bank.
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Nearly 115 million people in the Region, almost half of all those in need worldwide - require humanitarian aid. Many are among the poorest and most vulnerable, living in fragile, conflict-affected settings.
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The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the surge in violence across South Sudan, warning that civilians and aid workers are paying a devastating price as humanitarian operations are increasingly targeted.
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Haiti is facing one of the worldâs most acute humanitarian crises, driven by escalating gang violence, political paralysis, and deep economic distress.
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Acute malnutrition among children has reached catastrophic levels in parts of Sudanâs North Darfur and Greater Kordofan, UN-backed analysts warned on Thursday, as conflict, mass displacement and denials of aid push the country deeper into a famine-risk emergency.
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Amid the ongoing war in Sudan, Chad, the country receiving the most refugees in Central Africa, saw slight improvements in its humanitarian situation last year, but as one of the most vulnerable nations on the African continent, it is still struggling to support four million people in need.
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The UN on Wednesday warned of potential humanitarian âcollapseâ in Cuba, following Washingtonâs attempt to block oil supplies from reaching the island.
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Mozambique is the first country to restart vaccination, following the halt in 2022 caused by the global surge in cholera cases that drove up demand and led to shortages of vaccine stocks.
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South Sudan is buckling under a fresh wave of violence and displacement, after attacks and looting halted a major UN food convoy in restive Upper Nile state and clashes continue to spread in neighbouring Jonglei.
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Despite receiving security assurances and guarantees from authorities for safe humanitarian movement, the looting occurred overnight without security intervention by the County authority.
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The priority response areas include Afghanistan, DR Congo, Haiti, Myanmar, oPt, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, in addition to ongoing cholera and mpox outbreaks.
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A fresh wave of Russian strikes overnight across Ukraine injured several people and left thousands âwithout heat in the heart of winter,â the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Tuesday.
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Sudan is now the worldâs most severe humanitarian emergency, the UNâs top relief official warned on Tuesday, urging donors and diplomatic partners to act swiftly as the fighting nears a third year with no end in sight.
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More than 450,000 children are at risk of acute malnutrition as the hostilities are causing mass displacement and halting of critical health and nutrition services in Jonglei state, warned UNICEF.
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The reopening of the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday after more than a year is being met with both optimism and fear, a senior official with the UN agency that assists the Palestinian people, UNRWA, has said.
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Civilians in South Kordofan face intensified fighting and near-total blockage of humanitarian supplies after a year of starvation and bombardment, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) warned today.
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Since the start of the year, severe flooding has engulfed communities in the southern and central parts of the country and displaced around 392,000, adding pressure to a country grappling with conflict in the north.
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Reaching a single child in Sudanâs Darfur region can take days of negotiations, security clearances and travel across sandy roads that cut through shifting frontlines, UNICEF warned Friday â as children live âon the brinkâ of survival.
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Military tensions in South Sudan are ârapidly expandingâ between Government forces and opposition militia as fighting continues in restive Jonglei state.
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This funding will help populations affected by the conflict, as well as to support Rohingya refugees living in neighbouring countries and is part of the initial 2026 allocation of the EU for South and Southeast Asia.