News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 29 from 99)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Food is slowly returning to the shelves in Gaza but supplies are still desperately inadequate, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday, as they issued fresh calls for wider access and continued financial support.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN humanitarian relief chief, Tom Fletcher, has sounded the alarm over rising violence in the occupied West Bank, where attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians and their property continue to escalate.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 1.5 million Jamaicans have been impacted by the devastation resulting from Hurricane Melissa, many losing their homes and livelihoods.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Any transition in Gaza must uphold unity with the West Bank and a two-State solution between Israelis and Palestinians, the UN Secretary-General said in Doha on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
The report showed an unprecedented 41,763 such abuses against children in conflict last year, a 30% increase from 2023 ā the previous highest year since records began ā and about 70% more than in 2022.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN teams rushed to northern Afghanistan on Monday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck overnight, just two months after a massive quake devastated the east of the country. Details are still emerging from the latest emergency where initial reports indicate at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some six million people have been affected by the category five hurricane which swept across the Caribbean last week, prompting UN agencies to scale up relief operations to safeguard livelihoods and reduce further losses.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In its latest update from Gaza, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that access to food improved in early October, especially in southern governorates.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sudanās hunger crisis has deepened further, with new UN-backed analysis confirming that famine is underway in parts of Darfur and Kordofan, where fighting and sieges have cut off entire communities from food and aid.
ReliefWeb News
Another massive earthquake in Afghanistan forced children to flee their homes in the middle of the night and caused at least 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries, said Save the Children.
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Given the state of people who escaped and made it barely alive to Tawila, itās clear they are in urgent need of medical and nutritional care, psychosocial assistance, shelter, water and general aid.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNās top aid official in Ukraine expressed concern on Friday about ācontinuous attacksā on energy production sites and distribution facilities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More details continued to emerge on Friday of atrocities committed during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Sudanās Darfur region.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN and partners are pushing ahead with aid deliveries across Gaza despite new Israeli airstrikes and a faltering ceasefire, UN Spokesperson StƩphane Dujarric said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
The strong storm that directly hit Jamaica and Cuba and affected the islands of Haiti and the Dominican Republic has left a heavy toll of displaced children and families.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hurricane Melissa has left a trail of devastation after crossing Jamaica, Cuba and the Bahamas, with severe effects also felt in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and parts of Central America, the UN aid coordination office (UNOCHA) reported on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
This latest tragedy took place in the rapidly worsening crisis in El Fasher, where escalating violence, siege conditions and rising hunger and disease are killing civilians, including children.
ReliefWeb News
The hunger crisis is most severe in North Kivu, South Kivu, Ituri and Tanganyika. Ongoing violence, population displacement, and limited access continue to worsen food insecurity in these areas.
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The escalating violence has left thousands of children, besieged for more than 500 days, further trapped amid relentless shelling, heavy fighting and severe shortages of food, safe water and medicine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Horrific stories of mass-atrocities committed by the RSF militia continue to emerge, along with the tens of thousands of civilians who have fled the North Darfur city of El Fasher in Sudan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has strongly condemned the killing of civilians, including children, in Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight into Wednesday, calling for all parties to uphold their commitments to the fragile ceasefire
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions in Jamaica and across the Caribbean are bracing for massive impact from Hurricane Melissa on Tuesday as the UN and partners warn of a āsevereā and āimmediateā threat.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Hurricane Melissa makes landfall in Jamaica as a category 5 storm, agencies continue mobilising supplies to support affected communities, with one senior official on the island telling UN News that Government-led preparations have been nothing short of āextraordinaryā.
ReliefWeb News
āAccess will be a major challenge. If the storm surge hits hard, it will be difficult to get humanitarian staff in and move food and relief supplies ā alternative airstrips are being prepared."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions of people across the Caribbean are bracing for the impact of Hurricane Melissa as it reached Category 5 status on Monday ā the most powerful on the scale ā defined by sustained winds of at least 157 mph (252 kmh).
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Airstrikes and ongoing conflict in Ukraine are leaving civilians ā including thousands of children ā without homes, power, water and basic services, as humanitarians warn the approaching winter is heightening the risks for communities along the frontlines.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 470,000 movements by civilians heading north inside the Gaza Strip have been recorded since the ceasefire began, said the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sharp declines in global aid are undermining decades of human rights and development progress, the UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada Al Nashif, warned on Monday.
ReliefWeb News
The IRC is scaling up its emergency response in Tawila and the surrounding areas through safe water supply, mobile clinics, cash aid and emergency response activities to reach those most in need.
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Countries, including Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, are expected to endure several days of intense weather that could disrupt basic services, especially in vulnerable coastal areas.