News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 26 from 88)
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Oxfam examines the implications of aid cuts on Africaās development, highlighting long-standing failures in official development assistance to reduce poverty, inequality, and climate vulnerability.
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The UNās top human rights official insisted on Friday that the Israeli Government must not pursue a complete military takeover of the Gaza Strip, beginning with full control of Gaza City.
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Millions of people returning to Afghanistan from neighbouring countries are receiving humanitarian support at the border, but they will need more help to rebuild their lives, according to UN-Habitat, the agency that advocates for sustainable communities.
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Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday, while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.
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UNHCR urgently calls for an immediate injection of funds to scale up life-saving health, hygiene, water, shelter and nutrition support to avoid a health catastrophe.
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The international community must provide greater support to Afghan women and girl returnees from Iran and Pakistan who face increased risk of impoverishment, early marriage and growing threats to their rights and safety.
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Exhausted UN aid workers in Gaza on Thursday continued to report a lack of food across the enclave, while medical teams warned that hospitals are overwhelmed by a daily influx of injured people and close to ānear-total collapseā.
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Acute malnutrition among children in Gaza has reached the highest levels to date as hunger continues to deepen in the enclave, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported on Thursday.
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Intensified clashes in Somaliaās Hiraan region have displaced more than 22,000 people ā half of them children ā leaving communities in Mahaas cut off from basic services, Save the Children reports.
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Aid agencies warned on Wednesday that most partner organizations providing vital relief across Gaza will likely have to shut down their operations within weeks, unless Israel withdraws its demand that they provide sensitive information about Palestinian employees.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday welcomed a contribution of $3.5 million from the Government of Indonesia to support the agencyās school meal programme in Afghanistan.
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Hostilities have continued in Sweida, Syria, despite a ceasefire agreement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in an update published on Wednesday.
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UN data published on Wednesday underscores the tiny amount of cultivable land that remains in the Gaza Strip, contributing to the famine-like conditions now being endured by more than two million people there.
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With violence intensifying in South Sudan, more than 33,000 refugees have fled to northern DRC. In May, MSF launched an emergency intervention to provide lifesaving medical care.
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Across the region countries - including China, Pakistan, Thailand, Laos and the Philippines - are experiencing storms and earlier-than-usual monsoon seasons partly brought about by climate change.
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About 2.5 million people live in areas that are currently classified as moderately or severely affected by drought conditions. A joint assessment mission by UN agencies and partners is underway.
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As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need for a political solution to the crisis in Gaza that can lead to a lasting peace between the two peoples.
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Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed ā no aid trucks have reached the region, the nearby city of El Fasher is still under siege and food prices are four times higher than other parts of the country.
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Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
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Obtaining food is no longer a routine journey in Gaza; it has become a race, fraught with death on all sides as women and children risk their lives to get aid.
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In Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on the brink of famine with the UN human rights chief on Monday denouncing images of starvation inside the enclave as āan affront to our collective humanity.ā
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Since the beginning of 2025, 600 refugees have arrived in Uganda each day, bringing the total number of new arrivals to almost two million. But with funding rapidly running out, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is warning the East African nation will not be able to continue providing life-saving services and aid.
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As conflict intensifies between rival militaries in Sudan, the UN humanitarian wing (OCHA) expressed alarm on Monday over mounting civilian casualties and worsening humanitarian conditions across the country.
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The outbreak has put over 640,000 children under five at risk. Since June, more than 1,180 cholera cases and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, which hosts over 500,000 displaced.
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Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado and straining limited aid supplies.
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In western Gaza City, displaced people live crammed into cramped tents, and a human tragedy is unfolding across a landscape of hunger.
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As Gaza faces famine-like conditions, large numbers of people reportedly continue to be killed and injured while searching for food, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.
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Despite Israelās 27 July announcement of daily military pauses in western Gaza āto improve humanitarian responses,ā Israeli forces continued attacks along food convoy routes and near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites, according to the UN human rights office in Palestine (OHCHR).
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The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is facing a sharp rise in child protection risks, driven by settler violence, military operations, detention, and forced displacement.
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Growing hunger is now compounded by violence following clashes between protestors and police. Dire conditions in the camps have been exacerbated by drastic aid cuts, causing severe food shortages.