News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 19 from 83)
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The affected areas are remote, roads are blocked or destroyed, and it is feared that many are still trapped under rubble. The number of casualties is expected to increase over the coming days.
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After a magnitude six earthquake struck remote areas of eastern Afghanistan overnight reportedly killing at least 800 people and wiping out villages, UN chief AntĂłnio Guterres on Monday pledged to âspare no effortâ in helping those affected.
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As of July 2025, more than 282 million people, more than one in five, are affected, with entire regions pushed to the brink by climate shocks, economic instability, and conflict.
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Another 1,000 people have sustained injuries due to the earthquake. About 600 houses have been destroyed or damaged, mostly in mountainous areas, with key road access disrupted.
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Our colleagues are malnourished and weak, surviving on just one meal a day. But even then, most choose to give that meal to their children. A lack of food kills more slowly, but just as surely as a bomb.
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Amid reports of increased Israeli military operations across Gaza City on Friday, UN aid agencies repeated urgent warnings of ongoing famine and a likely rise in preventable disease, linked to the dire living conditions in the war-shattered enclave.
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The UN Security Council met in emergency session in New York on Friday afternoon following overnight strikes early on Thursday by Russia on Ukrainian cities including the capital, which left at least 23 dead, including four children. Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav JenÄa told ambassadors that diplomatic momentum towards a possible peace deal was âat risk of rapidly fadingâ if large-scale attacks by Moscow continue. Follow our live meetings coverage below.
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Children and their families need food, clean water and healthcare after fast-flowing waters and torrential rains forced more than 200,000 people to leave their homes.
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The United Nations confirmed on Thursday that France, Germany and the United Kingdom have initiated a process that could lead to the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme within the next 30 days.
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Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak, a senior UN aid coordination official said on Thursday in New York.
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Haitians are enduring a âperfect storm of sufferingâ the UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily life across the island. Around 1.3 million people â half of them children â have fled their homes and six million are relying on humanitarian assistance. Follow our live Meetings Coverage as the latest crisis debate unfolds.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres on Thursday renewed his call for a ceasefire in Gaza, greater humanitarian access and the release of all hostages, as the enclave faces yet another deadly escalation.
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Russiaâs latest deadly attacks on Ukrainian cities overnight including the capital, Kyiv, left four children dead and dozens injured, UN aid agencies reported on Thursday.
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State authority is crumbling across Haiti while gang violence engulfs the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, âparalysing daily life and forcing families to flee,â UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday.
Countries in Africa risk running out of âwonderâ food over the next three months due to aid cuts
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The collapse in nutrition funding globally has been predicted to cut off treatment for 15.6 million people across 18 countries and expected to continue to deteriorate in 2026.
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Relentless monsoon rains continue to wreak havoc across Pakistan, leaving villages cut off, homes destroyed and families struggling to access food, clean water and medical care.
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Nearly two years of war in Gaza along with continued violence and settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank - and talk of an imminent takeover by Israel of the whole Strip - formed the backdrop to a Security Council meeting on Wednesday, as UN officials underscored the need to end the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
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The UN World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday issued a new warning over the deadly impacts of the ongoing Israeli blockade of Gaza on people there now suffering starvation.
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After 500 days of siege, the city of El Fasher in Sudanâs North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease and violence claiming young lives every day, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
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Since the start of the siege in April 2024, more than 1,100 grave violations have been verified in Al Fasher alone, including the killing and maiming of more than 1,000 children.
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A UN report stresses the impacts hostilities continue to have on children, pointing to the failure to respect international human rights law and disregard for the specific protection of children.
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A new resolution by the Thai Government that will allow long-staying refugees from Myanmar to work legally in the country was welcomed on Tuesday by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, as a significant boost to the national economy.
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More civilians have been killed and injured in Ukraine following recent hostilities and attacks across the country, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Tuesday in an update.
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IRC is mounting an urgent response to severe flooding that has swept across the south and warns that with more heavy rain expected, the risk of further flooding threatens to displace even more families.
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In the days leading up to the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Thierno Balde slept with a helmet and bulletproof vest beside his bed as shells rattled the walls of his hotel.
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Famine means mothers unable to breastfeed because they, too, are starving. And it forces mothers to make the impossible choice between which of their children to feed, and which must be left to perish.
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Dr. Nouf moves briskly from patient to patient wearing her mask and gloves, with a stethoscope resting around her neck, driven by a strong passion to help the vulnerable at the Migrant Response Point (MRP) in Maârib in Yemen.
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One of the many ugly consequences of wars and conflict is injuries leading to a loss of limbs. Gaza, which now has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world, is no exception.
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From Gaza to Sudan, wars are being waged on the very systems set up to protect civilian populations, with health workers, hospitals, health centres and ambulances being targeted in horrifying numbers, according to the UN agency for reproductive health and rights, UNFPA.
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More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new UN-backed food security report released on Friday.