News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 4 from 95)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Israeli forces reportedly killed more than two dozen Palestinians in Gaza and violated Lebanese airspace more than 100 times over the weekend despite ongoing ceasefire agreements, UN agencies and peacekeepers said on Monday.
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Plan International is calling for urgent international action to protect children in El-Obeid, Sudan as hundreds of thousands face humanitarian catastrophe as deadly cholera outbreak spreads
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MSF warns of severe malnutrition in eastern Chad, particularly among pregnant and breastfeeding women in host communities excluded from food assistance, and urges for the expansion of support
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The humanitarian toll is mounting as fighting continues in the Middle East beyond strikes and counterstrikes between the US and Iran, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Thursday, with civilians increasingly at risk and essential infrastructure disrupted in several countries across the region.
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Without urgent, flexible support, families may be forced to choose between complying with public health measures and finding food, undermining containment and deepening a severe humanitarian crisis.
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While the number of IDPs has stayed at about 12% of the population since 2023, the report shows that the longer displacement persists, the more families are struggling to meet their basic needs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations continues to monitor developments in the Occupied Palestinian Territory amid rising violence and greater restrictions in the occupied West Bank.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
One month after twin earthquakes rocked Venezuela, thousands of women and girls continue to face difficulty in accessing essential healthcare and protection services, a senior official with the UN reproductive and sexual health agency UNFPA said on Friday.
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In a world experiencing record levels of crisis and instability ā with more than 130 armed conflicts recorded worldwide in 2025, according to the ICRC ā some 41.6 million refugees remained uprooted.
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With the rainy season set to peak next month, safe water is critical to reducing the risk of deadly waterborne diseases. Cholera is already spreading in Sudan, with 1,330 cases reported by WHO in July.
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Children impacted by the twin earthquakes in Venezuela a month ago said they are missing their homes, schools, and the loved ones and friends who were among the 5,400 people that died in the disaster.
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About 15 per cent of the analysed population is experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity between May and August 2026. The situation is projected to deteriorate later this year.
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UN agencies warned that families are still struggling to meet basic needs, and improvements could be reversed quickly without sustained aid, private sector reactivation, funding, and investment.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Food security and child nutrition have improved across the Gaza Strip largely due to a scale-up in humanitarian assistance and commercial traffic, but progress remains fragile and could quickly reverse without sustained access, funding and recovery support.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Flash floods have killed at least 26 people across eastern Afghanistan, including 23 in the mountainous province of Nuristan, where homes, markets and roads were swept away and search teams continued looking for people reported missing.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN partners launched the Winter Response Plan to help 2.1 million people in Ukraine survive another cold season as the country grapples with the on-going Russian invasion.
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Venezuela was already experiencing protracted economic instability long before the ground began to shake, with more than half of the population living in extreme poverty.
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Anxiety among children and families is widespread, with many worried about whether children will be able to return to school when they reopen in September as new cases of Ebola continue to emerge.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN health teams and partners are still racing to contain the rapidly expanding Ebola outbreak despite ongoing insecurity in eastern areas where the virus has taken hold. As of 19 July, the DRC Government has recorded 2,423 confirmed cases, including 967 deaths and 469 recoveries.
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"UNICEF is deeply concerned by the continued killing and injuring of children in Ukraine. June recorded the highest monthly child casualty figure since 2022, with seven killed and 116 injured."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Haitiās future success depends on āsecurity, political engagement, and humanitarian action reinforcing each other,ā the UNās most senior official in Haiti has told the UN Security Council which met in New York on Monday to discuss the way forward for the embattled Caribbean island nation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the United States and Iran trade deadly attacks for a second week, the UN continues to call for de-escalation while highlighting the devastation caused to civilians and critical infrastructure across the Middle East.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sixty-seven minutes. That is how long volunteers spent serving lunch to people experiencing food insecurity at Refettorio Harlem in New York City last week ā one for every year Nelson Mandela gave to public service.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Thousands of people in some of Yemen's most conflict-affected communities are receiving lifesaving health care closer to home, thanks to funding from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) through the Yemen Humanitarian Fund.
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More than 53% of the population, which is 18 million people, are estimated to be experiencing severe food insecurity, including 2.2 million under-fives and 1.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
United Nations agencies have deplored a fresh Russian assault on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv which left at least one person dead and a dozen injured.
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Funding shortfalls mean that we arenāt even able to provide a full ration, people are only receiving 50% of the food they should. Despite this, the people I met were sharing with their neighbours.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians working in war-torn Sudan on Friday highlighted rapidly growing needs among the more than 100,000 displaced people now sheltering in camps in the city of El Obeid.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 256,000 people in Djibouti ā around 25 per cent of the population ā are likely to face crisis or emergency level hunger over the coming months, a UN-backed global food monitoring network warned in a new report released Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is supporting farmers in Gaza who are struggling to rebuild their smallholdings in areas devastated by the Hamas-Israel war.