News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 27 from 95)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development experts said on Tuesday, while aid agencies reported that far too little aid is getting in to meet the needs of desperate Palestinians.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Russian drones hit a āclearly markedā UN convoy on Tuesday which was bringing desperately needed aid to a war-torn frontline town in southern Ukraine.
ReliefWeb News
The crisis in Haiti is marked by an economy that has been in steady decline for several years and attacks by armed gangs that have led to massive population displacements.
ReliefWeb News
Armed clashes are occurring on a scale not seen since a cessation of hostilities was signed in 2017, with civilians bearing the brunt of human rights violations and displacements.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN Secretary-General on Monday welcomed the release of all living hostages from Gaza, aid agencies said that lifesaving relief supplies are now flowing at scale into the shattered enclave.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is stepping up its emergency response in Gaza, releasing $11 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to meet urgent needs before winter ā a move that underscores both the expanding humanitarian effort and the funding shortfall threatening to stall it.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly four million people across Africaās vast semi-arid Sahel region have been uprooted by a volatile mix of conflict, hunger and climate change, the UN warned on Friday, describing an unfolding protection and survival crisis that is pushing families to flee repeatedly.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 214 civilians were killed and almost 1,000 injured in Ukraine last month, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission for the country (HRMMU) said on Friday.
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
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 UN Secretary-General has welcomed the announcement from US President Donald Trump that Israel and Hamas have āsigned offā on the first phase of his 20-point peace plan, following days of intensive indirect negotiations in Egypt.
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 Childrenās Fund (UNICEF) Child Alert report found.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
āThe 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."
ReliefWeb News
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 Palestiniansā suffering ā 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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN aid teams in Gaza are āready to goā 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.
ReliefWeb News
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 Gazaās 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 UNās top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, with civilians facing relentless violence, sexual abuse and starvation.
ReliefWeb News
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 āsafe zonesā - are also places of death.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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
Nearly 42,000 people in Gaza are living with life-changing injuries from the ongoing conflict ā including more than 10,000 children ā as the health system collapses under relentless strain, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Thursday.