News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 24 from 92)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As displaced Gazans jammed the main route leading north on Friday after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas reportedly came into effect, UN aid teams repeated their call to open all crossings into the devastated enclave to prevent famine spreading.
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Hundreds of thousands of children have been forced to flee their schools and homes in Mindanao after a 7.4 magnitude quake shook the province and triggered tsunami warnings, Save the Children said.
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At least 20 civilians were reportedly killed this week in attacks targeting a mosque and the last hospital in El Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur state in Sudan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Gazans and Israelis celebrated the news that a potential ceasefire deal had been reached between the Hamas political leadership and Israel, UN aid agencies on Thursday underscored their readiness to inundate the famine-hit enclave with relief supplies, while urging the immediate release of all hostages.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As people celebrated across Gaza and Israel at the news of an agreement that could hasten the end of the two-year war, UN aid teams on Thursday insisted that they were ready to deliver humanitarian relief supplies into the shattered enclave at scale. We'll be covering all news developments across the UN system throughout the day. UN News app users can follow live coverage here.
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The study reinforces the confirmation by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) of famine and adds the clearest evidence yet of how child malnutrition has evolved during the war.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has almost doubled in the past year, with 680,000 now uprooted from their homes, a new UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas have âsigned offâ on the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, following days of intensive indirect negotiations in Egypt.
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More than 2,200 schools in Cebu were damaged or destroyed in the September earthquake, with debris strewn across playgrounds, roads and outbuildings, and at least 1,800 classrooms are totally unusable.
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âThe need for a ceasefire could not be more urgent. Since Saturday morning, at least 14 children have reportedly been killed, as intense bombing and shelling by Israel continue to hit Gaza."
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Since the conflict began in 2017, more than 1.3 million people have been displaced, caught between insecurity, loss and repeated upheaval. All 17 districts of Cabo Delgado have been directly affected.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Gaza-Israel war enters its third year, sparked by Hamas-led terror attacks on Israel, the UN is appealing for the release of all hostages, an immediate ceasefire and an aid surge to alleviate Palestiniansâ suffering â all as talks on a US-driven peace plan continue in Egypt.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 22,000 people fled their homes in northern Mozambique in a single week last month due to a resurgence in fighting across Cabo Delgado, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
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UN aid teams in Gaza are âready to goâ with thousands of tonnes of supplies on standby to alleviate famine, widespread hunger and malnutrition, in the event of agreement being reached over the US peace plan in the coming days.
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New research by Oxfam and CARE Climate Justice Centre finds developing countries are now paying more back to wealthy nations for climate finance loans than they receive.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN aid teams on Friday highlighted the disturbing situation in Gazaâs makeshift hospitals, where premature babies cry for scant oxygen and medics attempt to save child survivors targeted by airstrikes in their tents and quadcopter victims reportedly shot while fetching bread.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that millions in Somalia are at risk of worsening hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortfalls force the agency to cut back on life-saving emergency food assistance.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNâs top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, with civilians facing relentless violence, sexual abuse and starvation.
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The logic imposed on people in Gaza is brutal and contradictory. The north has been declared hostile: those who remain are branded suspects. The south - so-called âsafe zonesâ - are also places of death.
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In November, WFP will have to reduce the number of people who receive emergency food assistance to just 350,000, which means it will be supporting fewer than one in every 10 people who are in need.
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Cases reported over the past three weeks are showing early signs of a downward trend. However, maintaining and ramping up control measures remain critical in stopping the outbreak, says WHO.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hospitals are overwhelmed and families are sheltering in the open after a deadly 6.9 magnitude earthquake tore through northern Cebu in the Philippines, killing at least 70 people and displacing more than 20,000, according to local authorities and humanitarians on the ground.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict â including more than 10,000 children â as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.
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Rising violence by gangs in Haitiâs capital is restricting humanitarian access and pushing families deeper into hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday.
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The NRC urged global leaders to press Israel and Hamas for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, secure the release of hostages and Palestinian detainees, and allow agencies to operate freely in Gaza.
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The IFRC is running operations to support families returning from Pakistan and Iran, while also addressing malnutrition and the impacts of flooding. These overlapping emergencies stretch resources.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Israeli forces continued their push to take full control of Gaza City on Wednesday, reports emerged that another skeletal child whose plight was highlighted by the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has now died. Her name was Jana and she was nine years old.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres has welcomed Mondayâs Gaza peace deal proposal from US President Donald Trump, urging âall partiesâ to commit to it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Faced with a deadly outbreak of cholera and a lack of sanitation infrastructure, one Haitian mother sparked a community movement that has transformed her neighbourhood â and saved multiple lives.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
For George Stroumboulopoulos, WFP Goodwill Ambassador, the only way to get to an inaccessible destination near the border of Chad in 2004 was to fly on an UN Humanitarian Air Service plane: it was the first time heâd ever heard of UNHAS.