News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 37 from 75)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than one in two people in war-torn Sudan have too little to eat, famine âis taking holdâ and sexual violence is rife, the UNâs top aid official said on Monday, as the global body launched an appeal for $6 billion to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in the devastated country and beyond.
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Explosive ordnance continues to claim lives across Syria, with more than 430 deaths and injuries reported since December, nearly a third of them children, according to Stéphane Dujarric, the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN and partners continue to deliver life-saving assistance across the Gaza Strip, the scale of needs remains overwhelming, requiring urgent and sustained support, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A dire displacement crisis is escalating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as M23 rebels make headway while aid routes are cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.
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The UN Secretary-General on Friday called on the international community to urgently scale up funding and diplomatic action to ease the suffering of millions of Sudanese facing hunger and displacement as rival militaries continue battling each other for control.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Sudanâs ruinous civil war is approaching its third year, leaving a legacy of malnutrition, massive population displacement and chronic insecurity. As the UN system prepares to launch a call for record funding of $4.2 billion to support aid operations in the country, here are some of the main things to know about what has been described as the largest and most devasting displacement, humanitarian and protection crisis in the world today.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Lifesaving aid continued to reach Gaza on Thursday while UN humanitarians warned that needs remain enormous after 15 months of constant Israeli bombardment.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A lasting peace is still possible in Yemen but requires commitment, courage, and action from all sides, the UN Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As M23 rebels continue to gain ground in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the countryâs top UN humanitarian official has told UN News that increasing âcomplexity and needsâ are fuelling a crisis which had already left more than a million people displaced before the latest surge in fighting.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 825,000 people who were displaced within Syria have returned to their areas of origin since December, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN is leading a surge of humanitarian relief and preparing for the monumental task of rebuilding Gaza, as a fragile ceasefire holds but tensions loom over a potential resumption of fighting.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) has voiced deep alarm at the growing number of children killed, injured and displaced in the occupied West Bank, as violence continues to escalate.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Special Envoy for Syria on Wednesday called on the countryâs caretaker authorities to make the transition to democratic rule inclusive, warning that transparency, rule of law and fair elections â particularly for women taking part â remain key concerns.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed deep concern over the impact of US funding cuts on critical global health initiatives, warning they pose a direct threat to public health efforts worldwide.
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Flags at all UN offices in Yemen are flying at half-mast this week following the death of a World Food Programme (WFP) staff member who had been arbitrarily detained by the Houthi de facto authorities in the north since last month.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A return to war in Gaza must be avoided at all costs, UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres insisted on Tuesday, amid fears that the three-week-old ceasefire agreement between Hamas fighters and Israel is about to end.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Thousands of people affected by the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are leaving displacement sites in and around Goma for safer areas, the UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA reported on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite significant challenges, humanitarians plan to stay and deliver in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between the Rwandan-backed M23 Movement and national forces continues, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday.
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As the Israeli military completed its withdrawal at the weekend from a key security corridor in Gaza that had cut the enclave in two, UN humanitarians issued a fresh appeal for an end to all aid restrictions which continue to prevent the delivery of lifesaving relief.
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The forced displacement of Palestinian communities in the northern part of the West Bank is escalating at an alarming pace, the UN agency that assists Palestine refugees UNRWA warned on Monday.
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The UN Secretary-General has instructed agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Saâada governorate in Yemen for security reasons, the global body said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The US pause in foreign assistance funding has created âconfusionâ in the vital work of community HIV prevention, despite a waiver issued for HIV/AIDS programmes, the UN agency to combat the still deadly disease said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Armed groups in Haiti are inflicting âunimaginable horrorsâ on children, turning their âbodies into battlegroundsâ, according to the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF).
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian casualties, UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The head of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA underscored its commitment to assist a population whose rights âcontinue to be violatedâ.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The humanitarian communityâs plan to flood Gaza with lifesaving aid passed an important milestone on Thursday with the news that more than 10,000 relief lorries have entered the enclave since the ceasefire began on 19 January.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday in a statement.
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Over one million people in the Gaza Strip have received food assistance since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect nearly three weeks ago, UN aid coordination office OCHA said in an update on Wednesday.
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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres urged the international community to continue pushing for a full ceasefire and the release of all hostages in Gaza, and âto avoid any form of ethnic cleansingâ in the enclave, in a speech in New York on Wednesday.
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Some 30,000 residents from Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes after large swathes of it were destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli security forces (ISF), the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.