News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 2 from 95)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid reports that hundreds of people are still missing in Nepal and China after a floodwater surge slammed into towns and villages on Wednesday, aid teams have been working to reach communities cut off by the disaster.
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"Families are sharing one plate a day of food. Now they are about to be hit by floods, threatening to wipe them out. We cannot turn away and passively allow another catastrophe to hit these families."
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The survey of 2,214 households, conducted across four districts in Aden, Lahj and Taiz governorates, found that about one in three children had never enrolled in school.
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"El NiƱo Through a Displacement Lens: Mobility Outlook in East Africa" outlines three scenarios and potential displacements caused by floods destroying homes, livelihoods and support networks.
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More than 1.2 million Rohingya remain in overcrowded camps in Bangladesh, facing a triple crisis of shrinking aid, no safe path home and a generation growing up with little hope for the future.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Severe flooding in the Tibet autonomous region of China and Nepal caused widespread destruction and mounting death tolls, UN agencies reported on Wednesday as aid efforts deployed to help provide emergency assistance.
ReliefWeb News
The latest attacks in Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Mykolaiv come after July recorded the highest monthly number of child casualties in Ukraine since April 2022.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from wasting, one of the most dangerous forms of malnutrition, with around one million currently battling the most severe, life-threatening form of the condition.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A family with four children abandoned its farm in Somalia after armed groups arrived and demanded payments for the right to continue cultivating the land. They walked roughly 100 kilometers to a displacement camp. One of the children died along the way.
ReliefWeb News
"Across Afghanistan, 3.7 million children are currently suffering from wasting ā they are acutely malnourished, including about one million with life-threatening severe acute malnutrition."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
For millions of children in Sudan, the classroom remains out of reach as the countryās civil war continues to disrupt their education. To help tackle this huge problem, the UN global education fund on Monday announced a $22 million initiative to help 200,000 youngsters return to learning.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Among tent cities pitched on the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza, children are, by one measure, finally getting enough to eat. By another, however, many of them may never fully recover, according to a new study by the UN Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) released on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the deadliest Ebola outbreak in DR Congoās history continued spreading on Friday, UN responders renewed their urgent appeal for immediate international support, with existing funding for lifesaving work critically low.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The global funding crisis for humanitarian work is taking a growing toll on the most vulnerable children in Somalia, where some aid programmes and facilities have been forced to shut down.
ReliefWeb News
In the first six months of this year, Somalia has seen a 32% increase (on last year) in children being admitted to stabilization centres with severe acute malnutrition and complications.
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Thousands more have lost one parent or caregiver, exposing them to heightened risks of abuse, trafficking and severe psychological distress as families and fragile social services struggle to cope.
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The humanitarian response has changed. In the early months, the priority was keeping people alive; today, while emergency needs remain immense, many families are also trying to rebuild their lives.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Ten days after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, an estimated 1.2 million people need humanitarian assistance, while some communities have still received little or no aid, UN agencies said on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
Families are fleeing violence, losing access to water, electricity and health care, and now face floods. Without urgent action to protect civilians and restore essential services, suffering will deepen.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying fighting in Sudan has displaced at least another 200,000 people since late 2025, while destructive seasonal floods are compounding the massive humanitarian emergency there, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is warning that aid workers face a deadly and evolving threat, with armed drones reshaping battlefields worldwide ā putting humanitarian teams increasingly in the line of fire.
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2025 set another grim record for violence against aid workers, with 907 colleagues killed, injured or kidnapped, OCHA said on World Humanitarian Day. So far in 2026, 82 aid workers have been killed.
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The decline reflects reduced access to farmland since the October 2025 ceasefire, linked to the westward expansion of the āYellow Lineā separating the ceasefire zone from the military-controlled area.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
From the frontlines of the deadliest-ever Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN World Health Organization (WHO) shared details on Tuesday of a massive push for community engagement, a day after yet another ambulance attack.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is scaling up humanitarian assistance in western Colombia as needs continue to grow following last weekās devastating 7.4-magnitude earthquake, according to the latest update released on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around 860,000 people displaced by the conflict in southern Lebanon have returned, but the displacement and humanitarian crisis are āfar from over,ā the UN warned on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
The security situation remains fragile, with humanitarian needs of hundreds of thousands of people still immense as 360,000 remain displaced, including at least 22,000 living in collective shelters.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarian workers have reached Palestinian families who had been trapped for days by Israeli settlers in Qusra village in the northern West Bank, the UN said on Monday, as officials warned that the standoff must not become "the new normal."
ReliefWeb News
New analysis found that between 1 August 2021 and end-July 2026, about 3,496 national aid workers were victims of attacks, compared with 134 international staff, which tend to bring more attention.
Red Cross volunteers stand by their communities by building trust as Ebola virus continues to spread
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DRC Red Cross teams are working across multiple fronts: awareness campaigns, community-based surveillance, safe and dignified burials, infection prevention and control, and psychosocial support.