News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 20 from 92)
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Cadre Harmonisé found nearly 35 million people are projected to face severe food insecurity during the 2026 lean season, the highest number recorded in Nigeria.
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The Security Council is meeting against the backdrop of Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, with ambassadors expected to urge Israel and Hamas to stick to their commitments amid renewed violence and deepening humanitarian needs. The session is likely to focus on safeguarding the truce, easing aid access restrictions and sustaining political momentum. With tensions also rising in the occupied West Bank and southern Lebanon, the meeting will test whether the Council can help stabilise the situation and keep alive a credible path towards Palestinian self-determination. Follow live below and UN News app users can click here. For in-depth meetings coverage, go here.
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The UN Country Team in Sudan met in Khartoum on Monday – the first time it has convened in the capital since conflict erupted in April 2023.
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Attacks on schools over the past five years included killing and abduction of teachers and students, airstrikes on schools, occupation of schools by armed groups, and sexual violence against students.
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Ongoing attacks and airstrikes attributed to Israeli forces in Gaza continue to kill and maim people of all ages in the shattered enclave despite an agreed ceasefire, UN agencies said on Friday.
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October saw the highest number of attacks on energy since the start of the war. There were 177 recorded incidents after 113 in September, making them the two worst months since February 2022.
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To mark the ninth anniversary of the peace agreement, NRC calls on all armed actors to respect unrestricted humanitarian access and guarantee the freedom of movement for the civilian population.
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Millions in Ukraine have been left without heating, water or basic public services as winter temperatures plunge – and civilian deaths this year have already surpassed the total for 2024, the UN Security Council heard on Thursday.
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More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report.
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According to UNICEF, more than one in five children in low- and middle-income countries are severely deprived in at least two vital areas critical for their health, development, and wellbeing.
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As wars increasingly move into cities, the percentage increase from an average of about 59 per cent between 2020 to 2024 signals a shift in how children are being killed in modern conflicts.
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Living conditions for Gazans – particularly children – are still dire as temperatures drop and families return to bombed-out homes as the fragile ceasefire holds, UN aid workers said on Wednesday.
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Food insecurity in Somalia is set to increase in coming months, with up to 5.9 million people in need of food support by early 2026 compared with 4.4 million people at the end of 2025.
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With the sanitation systems collapsed after two years of Israeli bombardment, siege and aid restrictions, rainwater no longer drains properly and is now mixed with sewage that has flooded tents.
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As UN Secretary-General António Guterres hailed Monday’s Security Council resolution paving the way for a consolidated ceasefire via a temporary International Stabilization Force in Gaza, UN aid teams warned that many Palestinian children in the enclave are in no shape to endure another harsh winter.
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Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — well under one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to UN estimates.
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The UN is prepared to play “any role” needed to advance the breakthrough Security Council resolution endorsing the United States-led Gaza peace plan.
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In 2025, famine prevention pulled several communities back from starvation. Yet, the food crisis shows no signs of abating as conflict, extreme weather and economic instability drive food insecurity.
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A large-scale campaign under the slogan “We Will Rebuild Gaza” was launched on Saturday in Gaza City, with the participation of local organisations and United Nations agencies, in an effort to begin cleaning operations and removing debris left by the war.
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With savings exhausted, prices soaring and livelihoods destroyed, millions now face a season where survival depends on others. The Ukrainian Red Cross and the IFRC Network are scaling up efforts.
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Just how many people are still trapped in the Sudanese city of El Fasher? That’s the burning question for relatives of the many thousands of people believed to still be there, since paramilitary fighters overran the regional capital of North Darfur last month, after a 500-day siege.
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Images emerged this week of what appear to be mobs of masked Israeli settlers carrying out arson attacks on Palestinian homes and property, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday.
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A protection catastrophe in Darfur and Kordofan is intensifying at an alarming pace as escalating violence drives thousands of families from their homes, many for the second or third time, UNHCR warns.
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More than nine in 10 children in Gaza are displaying signs of aggressive behaviour linked to more than two years of war between Hamas and Israel, welfare agencies have reported.
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More than 21 million people in Sudan, 45 per cent of the population, are not getting enough to eat as the war between rival militaries continues, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).
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People are unable to start repairs to homes without equipment and many are scared to move due to unexploded ordnance or the fear of further airstrikes, Save the Children said.
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Super Typhoon Fung-wong has wreaked havoc on homes, schools and access to health services across 16 regions in the archipelago already exhausted by multiple climate-related and geophysical shocks.
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At least 600,000 litres of desperately needed diesel fuel has managed to enter the Gaza Strip in less than a week, UN aid coordinators OCHA said in an update.
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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) warn of a major hunger emergency, with acute food insecurity set to worsen in 16 countries and territories between now and May 2026, putting millions of lives at risk.
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Some 90,000 people have been displaced following the fall of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur - with another 50,000 fleeing violence in the Kordofans, according to the UN migration chief.