News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 35 from 92)
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The 2025 seed distribution campaign kicked off in West Darfur, where more than 750 000 people – over half the population – are facing crisis-level hunger or worse due to conflict and food insecurity.
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in Chad, which hosts almost a quarter of the four million refugees from Sudan, food rations will be cut unless funds are received soon. In Uganda, many are surviving on less than 500 calories a day.
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Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap.
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Extreme hunger and high levels of malnutrition and mortality are likely ongoing in North Darfur and Khartoum, while the operational challenges of the GHF are still resulting in mass starvation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UN’s top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC.
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Across the country, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating. More than 3.5 million people have been displaced by conflict and nearly 22 million need help. About 1.3 million people have fled.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN’s top aid official said on Thursday.
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Devastating cuts to food rations have affected more than 700,000 refugees in Kakuma and Dadaab and Kalobeyei Settlement. As of June, refugees are receiving just 28% of their full in-kind food ration.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday.
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“The world order that emerged from the horrors of the Second World War has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. In just a few short months, that progress has begun to wildly unravel.”
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza – a likely war crime – the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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Nearly three months after Myanmar’s strongest earthquake in a century, more than six million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the disaster compounds a humanitarian crisis driven by years of conflict, political turmoil and mass displacement.
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Report highlights how energy is one of the invisible threads that hold together family life and essential services—powering kitchens, hospitals, water pumps, food preparation and aid logistics.
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An armed group linked to ISIS has ramped up abductions of children in Cabo Delgado, HRW said. Most of them are being used for transporting looted goods, forced labour, forced marriages, and fighting.
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"We have this notion that we need to put the local actor in the front. No, they're already there ... And I think we need to have the courage to follow the local actors who are already there."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the population facing acute food insecurity and struggling to find their next meal.
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In 2024, Asia’s average temperature was about 1.04°C above the 1991–2020 average, ranking as the warmest or second warmest year on record, depending on the dataset.
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Between January and June 2025, Save the Children recorded more than 478 cases of GBV, including over 172 against children, most of them rape cases, which was a 249% increase from a year ago.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where civilians are being killed daily while trying to access food, water and medical care.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional crisis exacerbated by Israel’s war in Gaza and the worsening humanitarian situation facing Palestinian civilians.
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With only 8.3% of the 2025 humanitarian response plan funded—and as the Atlantic enters a particularly active hurricane season—the situation in Haiti remains deeply concerning.
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At present, just 40 per cent of drinking water production facilities remain functional in Gaza (87 out of 217). Without fuel, every one of these will stop operating within weeks, warned UNICEF.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
One week since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted, diplomatic efforts to end the war are ramping up in Geneva today as foreign ministers from France, Germany, the UK and the European Union prepare to meet their Iranian counterpart. In New York, meanwhile, the UN Security Council is also set to discuss this latest worrying escalation, against the backdrop of the ongoing emergency in Gaza. We'll be covering these developments and more across the UN system today. UN News app users can follow here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies, UN agencies said on Friday.
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The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement.
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The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Director for Health Financing and Economics for the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.