News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 37 from 92)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN agencies on Friday continue to stress they must be allowed to deliver aid in the Gaza Strip as famine looms and a telecommunications blackout threatens lifesaving operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency (UNDP) issued an appeal on Friday on behalf of people uprooted by the violence to help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
ReliefWeb News
A deadly mix of conflict, climate change and poverty has pushed 2.3 million under-fives in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates soaring just months after funding cuts.
ReliefWeb News
Severe malnutrition among children has surged across Somalia, with health facilities supported by ICRC seeing record admissions since the devastating drought two years ago.
ReliefWeb News
Khartoum State has experienced a rapid increase in cholera cases since May, with more than 16,000 cumulative cases and 239 deaths reported across the stateās seven localities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With 13.5 million people displaced by over 13 years of brutal civil conflict, Syria used to represent the largest displacement crisis in the world. This is no longer the case.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned after a new update was released on Thursday from the UN-partnered food security classification system, the IPC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Yemen cannot endure more years of division, economic collapse and human suffering, the UNās top official on the crisis told the Security Council on Thursday, warning that ātime is not on our side.ā
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Meeting in emergency session on Thursday in New York, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza.
ReliefWeb News
In its new report, MSF exposes how the removal of search and rescue vessels from the Central Mediterranean is leaving people fleeing violence in Libya with no safe route to escape.
ReliefWeb News
The increase represents around a decade of year-on-year increases. The main drivers of displacement remain large conflicts and the continued failure to stop the fighting.
ReliefWeb News
MSF continues to treat new victims of sexual violence daily in Goma - nearly 7,400 patients between January and April. Twenty kilometres west of Goma, in SakƩ, more than 2,400 survivors were treated.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Survivors of a people-smuggling operation in the Red Sea have described being forced off their boat far from the coast of Djibouti and left to swim for their lives.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
People in the Gaza Strip are getting hungrier because of the āvery limitedā volume of food being allowed in, UN aid agencies reiterated on Wednesday.āÆ
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly 1.3 million people have been forced to flee gang violence in Haiti and seek refuge elsewhere within the Caribbean country, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Wednesday.
ReliefWeb News
The latest data show a drop of more than 20 million since 2020, reversing an alarming spike between 2016 and 2020. However, the world has missed its target of eliminating child labour by 2025.
ReliefWeb News
In 2023 alone, nearly 255,000 entry permits were issued to refugees from countries with high asylum recognition rates, according to a new report from UNHCR and OECD.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The very real risk of famine continues to stalk Sudanās communities impacted by war, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for more funding to support immediate needs and boost longer-term recovery across the country.
ReliefWeb News
But needs are outpacing the funding WFP has received. Despite generous contributions from donors, we are running short of more than $500 million for emergency food and cash for the next six months.
ReliefWeb News
The closure of the hospital and cessation of MSFās support to 13 facilities has left an area spanning more than 124 miles without any secondary health care facility.
ReliefWeb News
After devastating floods swept through Mokwa on May 29, claiming more than 150 lives and displacing hundreds, the Nigerian Red Cross Society is delivering life-saving support for affected families.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite its wealth of natural resources and potential, Central Africa continues to face serious challenges, from political instability to growing humanitarian needs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip has reached āunprecedented levels of despair,ā the UN said on Monday, amid more reports of people being killed and injured near newly-established distribution sites.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Whether itās their first time or a routine part of their life, menstruation has become a nightmare for women and girls in Gaza. The conditions they are forced to endure - displacement, overcrowded shelters, and lack of basic hygiene - have turned a natural biological process into a monthly ordeal.
ReliefWeb News
Facing extreme heat, dehydration, and lack of shelter, expelled migrants, including more than 700 children, endure inhumane conditions in Assamaka desert, overwhelming local aid resources.
ReliefWeb News
With Gazaās local food production capacity nearly destroyed, controlling the crossings means controlling survival itself. Each round of deprivation and partial recovery compounds life-long damage.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The lack of food entering Gaza caused by ongoing Israeli aid restrictions is leaving increasing numbers of Palestinians āvulnerable to starvationā, with daily energy intake now well below what a human body needs to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
The move affects more than 6,400 learning centers in Coxās Bazar ā the worldās largest refugee camp ā which is home to about one million people, including more than 500,000 children.
ReliefWeb News
A report released by MĆ©decins Sans FrontiĆØres illustrates in how the impact of violence, a healthcare system in ruins and an inadequate response have all combined to devastate peopleās lives.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A draft resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza failed to pass in the UN Security Council on Wednesday after the United States cast its veto ā blocking the initiative backed by all ten elected members of the Council.