News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 3 from 88)
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.
ReliefWeb News
Despite a ceasefire taking effect on 17 April, 25 women have been reported killed and 109 reported injured over the past three weeks, highlighting the continued danger women and girls face.
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The RCRC Movement urges all parties to the conflict to uphold their obligations under IHL, alleviating civilian suffering and fostering the path toward a peaceful future for South Sudan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Somaliaâs Puntland region, dried out watering holes, animal carcasses and old pots filled with ash have become part of the landscape as worsening drought conditions deepen a growing hunger crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
An Israeli airstrike overnight on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital Beirut has sparked a new wave of displacement among civilians already impacted by months of conflict, the United Nations said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Death and destruction have continued unabated in Lebanon while communities are still unable to return to their homes despite a ceasefire that began on 17 April, humanitarians said on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
Renewed violence in Ituri, north-eastern DRC, has driven displacement and rising civilian injuries, with MSF treating thousands in Fataki since February 2026 amid an insufficient wider response.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN has formally concluded its cross-border humanitarian operations from TĂŒrkiye into Syria, marking the end of an 11-year mission that served as one of the most complex supply chains in the organizationâs history.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Concern is mounting over the health of imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, who was reportedly being held alongside high-risk offenders.
ReliefWeb News
For the first time in the history of the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index, over half of the worldâs countries now fall into the âdifficultâ or âvery seriousâ categories.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Myanmar State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred from prison to house arrest, with her sentence reduced under a prisoner amnesty linked to a Buddhist holiday.
ReliefWeb News
As of 28 April, more than 34,600 suspected cases have been reported and more than 200 deaths confirmed from the disease. The risk of rapid transmission is acute in overcrowded Cox's Bazar.
ReliefWeb News
Afghans still remain the largest group arriving in Europe through the Balkans. Under pressure from EU member states to crack down on irregular migration, Afghans are among those being sent back home.
ReliefWeb News
The analysis reveals that 1.24 million people â nearly one in four of the population analysed â are expected to face food insecurity levels classified as Crisis or worse, between April and August.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Twenty years after the conflict in Darfur first sparked global outrage, children in the region are once again trapped in a catastrophic cycle of violence, hunger, and displacement â but this time, the world is failing to take notice.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Conflict and displacement are intensifying South Sudanâs hunger crisis, with 7.8 million people facing high levels of acute food insecurity while 2.2 million children are suffering from acute malnutrition, according to a joint statement on Tuesday from UN agencies.
ReliefWeb News
As in 2005, homes have been burned, markets attacked, schools and health facilities destroyed and families forced to flee â but today the needs are greater and the global outrage far more constrained.
ReliefWeb News
Save the Children reveals how the collapse of funding to Somalia in 2025 may soon lead to catastrophic outcomes for children not seen since the 2011 famine, which killed more than 257,000 people.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 7.5 million children across the Central Sahel region in Africa are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance â âan emergency that remains too far from the attention of the international community,â a senior official with the UN child rights agency UNICEF has said.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations has condemned two recent drone attacks in Sudan, one of which left seven dead, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Monday during his regular media briefing in New York.
ReliefWeb News
âAs the lean season begins, women and girls are already reporting eating wild plants to survive, with some going days without anything to eat. We are already seeing an increase in malnutrition."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
There are reports of continuing clashes in Mali on Sunday, a day after a series of coordinated attacks across the landlocked African nation against Government forces by extremists and northern separatist rebels.
ReliefWeb News
A week into the newly extended conditional ceasefire in Lebanon, more than one million people, including 390,000 children, remain displaced, with children still living in terror of bombing.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A growing share of global hunger is becoming entrenched in a small group of conflict-hit countries, with two-thirds of people facing acute food insecurity concentrated in just 10 nations, a major international report backed by UN agencies warns.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Desperate and dangerous conditions in Gaza continue to hamper recovery efforts for the wartorn enclave's people, the UN health agency said on Friday, while demining experts warned that theyâve âbarely scratched the surfaceâ in assessing the level of contamination of unexploded ordnance.
ReliefWeb News
The UN, EU and partners warn in the Global Report on Food Crises that over the past decade, acute hunger numbers have doubled, while funding has retreated to 2016 levels.
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IOM data shows that drought now accounts for three out of every four new displacements, a 22 per cent increase from last year that underscores the growing severity of climate shocks.
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As of mid-April, Zimbabwe had recorded more than 65,000 malaria cases in 2026, nearly double as many compared with the same period in 2025, with 174 deaths â nearly double the number for 2025.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran has been extended, offering an opening for diplomacy â but persistent tensions in the Strait of Hormuz are compounding trade disruptions and intensifying pressure on humanitarian operations and vulnerable communities far beyond the Gulf.