News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 34 from 75)
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The outbreak, in which two confirmed and eight probable cases were recorded, all deceased, was the second the country has experienced. No new cases have been recorded in more than 42 days.
Childrenâs lives on the brink in Sudanâs Zamzam refugee camp as medical and food supplies dry up
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Heavy shelling and heightened violence have put children at increased risk and further complicated efforts to deliver humanitarian assistance, with access to the camp now nearly impossible.
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At least one child in Afghanistan has died from measles every day so far in 2025, according to data MSF staff have collected - almost three times as many deaths as in the same period last year.
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Following 11 days of an Israeli aid blockade in Gaza, âcrucial progressâ made during the first six weeks of the ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hamas militants âcontinues to unravelâ, said UN Spokesperson StĂ©phane Dujarric on Wednesday.
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The UNâs top relief official warned on Wednesday that the global humanitarian system has reached breaking point, with funding cuts forcing life-or-death decisions over which aid programmes to sustain and which to shut down.
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Recent cuts in foreign aid have forced Save the Children to suspend lifesaving programmes for malnourished children as a reported 131 million children live in areas experiencing acute food crises globally.
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In Bangladeshâs Coxâs Bazar refugee settlements, child malnutrition has surged and cuts to aid funding risk creating a humanitarian âcatastropheâ, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) warned on Tuesday.
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More than 15% of children in camps are malnourished â the highest since the mass displacement of Rohingya in 2017. Rising demand for treatment threatens to outpace funding, leaving thousands at risk.
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Aid had substantially increased over the course of the ceasefire, but remains a drop in the ocean compared to immense needs on the ground. A commitment to rebuilding essential services is vital.
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Save the Children analysed the current learning situation for children living in the 30 countries that experienced the longest pandemic-induced school closures.
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Aid capacities are overstretched due to simultaneous ongoing responses to Cyclones Chido and Dikeldi, as well as a number of other emergencies. At least 780,000 people are at risk.
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Severe water shortages in Gaza have reached critical levels with tens of thousands impacted by Israeli power cuts to the enclave, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday.
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported about 745 civilians, including at least 13 children, as well as several hundred security force members and fighters, were killed in Latakia and Tartus.
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Attacks across Ukraine on Friday reportedly left 21 civilians dead and scores injured, making it one of the deadliest days this year, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU) said.
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As it re-establishes its presence in Damascus, IOM is reactivating its data collection operations in Syria so it can address critical information gaps about humanitarian needs and mobility.
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Nearly 63,000 people have arrived in less than a month, with more than 1,100 crossing on 5 March. Despite a slight fall this past week, hundreds of refugees continue to arrive daily through 11 borders.
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Up to one million desperate Syrians living in camps and displacement sites across the countryâs northwest intend to return home within the next year â sparking deep concerns of a new humanitarian crisis.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that potentially life-saving food and nutrition assistance in Central Sahel and Nigeria will have to end next month, unless emergency funds can be secured.
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Humanitarian agencies warned on Friday that ongoing Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank are exacerbating an already dire situation for displaced Palestinians.
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In Gaza, since the ceasefire came into effect on 19 January, Israeli military reportedly killed 58 Palestinians including 10 children and three women, mostly near the Israeli imposed âno-goâ zones.
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The UN food agency urgently requires $620 million to ensure continued support to crisis-affected refugees and IDPs in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria in the next six months.
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Civilians sheltering in the vast Zamzam displacement camp in Sudanâs North Darfur region are now ânearly impossibleâ to reach, the UNâs top aid official in the country warned on Thursday.
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After several years of fragile truce, there is a âpalpableâ fear of a return to all-out war in Yemen, said Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen Hans Grundberg on Thursday, briefing the Security Council.
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Amid deep cuts to global humanitarian funding, the UNâs Central Emergency Response Fund, CERF, on Thursday allocated $110 million to neglected crises across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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Clashes between armed groups and police are intensifying, leaving people trapped under constant threat of crossfire. Today, 85% of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is under the control of armed groups.
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Since 8 December last year, landmines and explosive remnants of war have caused at least 628 casualties, more than two-thirds of the total number of casualties for all of 2023, says Save the Children.
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Children's attendance at schools has fallen significantly in North Kivu since an intense increase in fighting since January when 1.3 million students were enrolled to start learning.
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One third of the new CERF funding will support Sudan and neighbouring Chad, as well as the humanitarian response in Afghanistan, CAR, Honduras, Mauritania, Niger, Somalia, Venezuela and Zambia.
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"Human rights defenders in eastern DRC are at extreme risk of reprisals for their human rights work. They need help now, including support for temporary relocation along with their families" - Lawlor.
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The unilateral halt to aid deliveries entering Gaza announced by the Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of a return to violence and lifesaving healthcare services under threat, the UN Childrenâs Fund, UNICEF, has warned.