News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 3 from 92)
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The continued expansion of areas under Israeli control in Gaza since Octoberâs ceasefire agreement is placing civilians at greater risk and severely constraining humanitarian operations, the UN and humanitarian partners warned on Wednesday.
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Where children once trained as baseball players, families now sleep under tarpaulins. The stadium at Playa Grande, on Venezuela's central coast, has become an emergency shelter for people who lost their homes â or cannot safely return to them â after the deadly quakes that struck the country on 24 June.
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UNDP analysis shows Ebola extends beyond a health emergency. It is also a development and economic crisis triggering severe socioeconomic shocks, particularly for women.
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Search and rescue operations continued in Venezuela on Tuesday as thousands of displaced survivors struggled to find shelter and humanitarians issued an alert over the spread of infectious disease.
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The deadly Venezuela quakes have deepened hardship for families who already needed support and left others without homes, income or regular access to food.
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Five humanitarian workers have been killed after a clearly marked aid convoy was ambushed in Jonglei State, South Sudan.
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The UN agency serving 5.9 million Palestine refugees, UNRWA, continues to strive to deliver on its mandate while facing an unprecedented $100 million budget shortfall, a gap it hopes to narrow during Tuesdayâs pledging conference at UN Headquarters.
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Emergency response teams pressed on with their lifesaving mission in Venezuela on Monday as countless local responders and families continued their search for missing relatives âagainst impossible oddsâ, five days since the double earthquake disaster.
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The United Nations has welcomed Sudanâs decision to extend the opening of an aid corridor with neighbouring Chad and continues to express concern over the ongoing escalation in El Obeid, capital of North Kordofan state.
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Five days after powerful earthquakes struck central-northern Venezuela, the death toll continues to climb along with the intense rescue operation and the UN coordinates humanitarian assistance, warning that recovery âis going to take time.â
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Escalating RSF drone strikes on El Obeid are killing civilians, cutting off access to food, water and fuel, and paving the way for a ground offensive that would put hundreds of thousands at grave risk.
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This includes a preliminary estimate in direct physical damage equivalent to about 6 per cent of GDP, according to a satellite-based Rapid Digital Assessment (RAPIDA) by UNDP.
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Some 680,000 children are among the 1.8 million people in need of humanitarian assistance following the earthquakes that struck Venezuela on 24 June, the UN child rights agency UNICEF reported on Sunday as rescue efforts continue.
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More than 2,000 rescue workers from 27 countries have been deployed to Venezuela to locate people trapped under the rubble following the twin earthquakes on Wednesday, in a deployment supported and coordinated by the United Nations.
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More than 2,600 people were displaced in the Artibonite department of Haiti following clashes between armed groups last week as the humanitarian situation continues to worsen, according to the UNâs Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA).
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The new head of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has urged parties to the peace processes for the volatile eastern region to maintain momentum and fully implement their commitments.
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Nearly seven million Venezuelans could be affected by this weekâs double earthquakes as the death toll rises to at least 235 people amid massive, growing needs and ongoing emergency search and rescue efforts, UN agencies reported on Friday. UN News app users can follow here.
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Aid agencies on Friday highlighted massive needs across Venezuela caused by a double earthquake disaster that has killed at least 235 people so far, with search and rescue for people trapped under the rubble still the top priority.
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A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that the opportunity to prevent a major escalation in the Sudanese city of El Obeid is ârapidly narrowingâ as fighting intensifies in and around the North Kordofan state capital.
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Food aid is not separate from the Ebola response. It is part of containment. It helps people stay in care. It helps contacts remain under observation. It reduces the pressure on families to move.
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The Venezuelan Red Cross has been working around the clock â carrying out search and rescue, physical and psychological first aid, restoring family links and damage assessments.
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Two deadly earthquakes struck Venezuela less than a minute apart on Wednesday, with magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5, causing at least 164 deaths and widespread destruction in and around the capital, Caracas as international assistance begins to arrive early Thursday, with UN agencies rapidly deploying aid, support and rescue teams. UN News app users can follow here.
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UN teams scrambled on Thursday in support of the international response to the devastating double earthquake disaster in Venezuela, where buildings lie flattened and people are likely still trapped in the capital, Caracas, and beyond.
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The UN's top humanitarian official has allocated $8 million in funding to help Burundi and South Sudan prepare for the potential spread of Ebola.
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Since Tuesday, United Nations peacekeepers have detected no airstrikes or new missile fire in southern Lebanon. The lull remains fragile, however, as Israeli drones continue to fly over the area and military operations continue on the ground.
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By the end of 2025, 82.2 million people were internally displaced worldwide, while more than 7,900 migrants lost their lives, underscoring the urgent need for coordinated international action.
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El Niño will unfold in a far more complex risk environment than previous events â including record global temperatures, conflict, economic shocks and severe humanitarian funding constraints.
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Children and adolescents account for approximately 15 per cent of confirmed Ebola cases and over 25 per cent of confirmed deaths in eastern DR Congo as of 19 June.
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Imagine being one of a family of nine and sitting down to a meal of potato peelings and other scraps, boiled up into a soup. This is the harsh reality for many of Afghanistanâs most vulnerable families, forced on them by climate change and drought, widespread malnutrition and increasing restrictions on women, since the Taliban overran Kabul in 2021.
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Pope Leo called on the international community to renew its commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition, describing access to adequate food as a âfundamental human rightâ during a visit to the World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome on Monday.