News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 38 from 95)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF).
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services.
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The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire have been replaced by just four military-controlled sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones.
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IOM has consistently warned that Afghanistan is not equipped to absorb such high numbers of returnees. With nearly 900,000 returns from Iran and Pakistan combined this year.
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UNHCR is seeking international solidarity as the number of refugees and asylum seekers surpasses a milestone. It is operating with only 29% of its required funding, leaving a gap of $97 million.
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The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on Afghanistanâs overstretched support systems.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
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The 2025 seed distribution campaign kicked off in West Darfur, where more than 750 000 people â over half the population â 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 enclaveâs 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 UNâs 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 Israelâs 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 UNâs 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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âThe 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.â
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 â a likely war crime â the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
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Nearly three months after Myanmarâs 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 servicesâpowering 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, Asiaâs average temperature was about 1.04°C above the 1991â2020 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.