News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 2 from 88)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Before heading to strike sites in war-torn Lebanon, rescue workers and paramedics often say goodbye to one another â a ritual captured in widely shared videos reflecting the growing dangers faced by aid workers since hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel erupted on 2 March.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Representative of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, in Ukraine has strongly condemned the deadly and destructive Russian missile and drone strikes in Dnipro on Tuesday night.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around 30,000 people have had to flee their homes in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas following a new wave of violent attacks and atrocities perpetrated by armed gangs over the past ten days.
UN and partners seek $710.5 million to meet critical needs of Rohingya refugees and host communities
ReliefWeb News
Nearly a decade after fleeing targeted violence and persecution in Myanmar, some 1.2 million Rohingya refugees reside in Bangladesh. Needs continue to rise as conflict forces more people to flee.
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Suspected Ebola cases have risen sharply from 246 to 500 in just 96 hours across eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, representing an increase of 103 percent over three days.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A fast-spreading Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has health workers rushing to stop transmission while the roll out of any potential vaccine is months away, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The war in Ukraine, now well into its fifth year, âis becoming deadlier by the dayâ, a senior UN official warned in a briefing to the Security Council on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The global economy is entering a more fragile period as geopolitical conflicts, rising energy costs and financial instability threaten global growth and trade.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A day after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo an international emergency, top global disease transmission experts stressed that the chances of another global pandemic similar to the 2019 coronavirus emergency are increasing all the time.
ReliefWeb News
The report emphasizes that the real, near-term risk of another pandemic would strike a world more divided, more indebted and less able to protect its people than it was a decade ago.
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At least 88 people have died and 336 suspected cases have been identified in DRC. Preliminary testing indicates a rare Bundibugyo strain of Ebola, for which there are no vaccines or targeted treatments.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least six million people in Somalia are going days without enough food, UN aid teams warned on Friday, highlighting that nearly two million of this number are young children âat high risk of illness or deathâ.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hospitals across Cuba are suspending surgeries, struggling to keep lifesaving equipment running and facing severe medicine shortages as blackouts and fuel shortages push the countryâs healthcare system deeper into crisis, senior UN officials warned on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 20 million people across Sudan are facing acute hunger and more than 800,000 children risk severe malnutrition this year, UN agencies warned on Friday, as civil war, mass displacement and collapsing food and health systems deepen one of the worldâs worst humanitarian crises and push parts of the country closer to famine.
ReliefWeb News
FAO, WFP and UNICEF warn that two out of every five people in Sudan are currently facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), according to the latest IPC analysis.
ReliefWeb News
A rapidly intensifying hunger emergency is pushing six million people â 31 percent of the population â into critical levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), affecting 1.9 million children.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
An additional $1.8 billion in US humanitarian funding will allow the United Nations and its partners to expand emergency relief operations reaching millions of people worldwide, as rising global needs and funding shortfalls force aid agencies to scale back assistance.
ReliefWeb News
As the needs are increasing, global funding support has collapsed. More than 6.5 million people, approximately one in every four Somalis, now face high levels of acute food insecurity.
ReliefWeb News
About 26.5 million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs, according to the latest IPC analysis. Of them, more than 3.6 million face critical food shortages threatening their survival.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions of Syrians are at growing risk of hunger after severe funding shortages forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to halve emergency food assistance, cutting support for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people across the country.
ReliefWeb News
Escalating conflict since December 2025 has triggered mass displacement and an alarming surge in needs, pushing communities closer to IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) malnutrition levels.
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WFP has reduced its emergency food assistance by 50 percent, from 1.3 million people to 650,000 in May, and halted a nationwide bread subsidy programme that has supported millions daily.
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New data shows 22 children have been killed and 89 injured since the temporary ceasefire on 17 April. This brings the number of children killed to almost 200 since renewed hostilities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Israeli military operations and surging settler attacks in the occupied West Bank are killing and maiming a growing number of Palestinian children, while in Gaza tens of thousands with life-changing injuries lack access to treatment and rehabilitation, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating militarised operations and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, says UNICEF.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk on Monday praised Mongoliaâs recent human rights progress during a visit to the country, which recently adopted the regionâs first law protecting human rights defenders.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 150,000 people have been affected by Tropical Cyclone Maila, the latest storm in the Pacific area, which continues to drive what the UN relief coordination office OCHA has described as âsignificant humanitarian needsâ across the Solomon Islands.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
âThis is not a distant warning. This is a crisis that is unfolding right now and it's deepening quickly.â
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Haiti continues to face escalating violence and deepening insecurity, with gangs expanding their reach beyond Port-au-Prince and civilians increasingly caught between armed groups and security operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Central African Republic (CAR) is making progress towards stability and security but major aid budget cuts threaten humanitarian operations there, a senior official with the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Friday in New York.