News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 39 from 92)
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Continuous attacks on power plants over the past month have disrupted electricity supply and worsened water shortages, significantly impacting access to safe water, increasing the risk of cholera.
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In Ethiopia, 10.2 million people, including more than three million IDPs, are severely food insecure. In Kenya, 34.5% of the population is undernourished. In Uganda, 25.4% of under fives are stunted.
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MAG anticipates that it will require an increase in funding from current levels of about $6 million a year to about $25 million in order to provide an appropriate response across the whole of Syria.
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It is vital that victims and survivors access services after the attack, as sexual violence is a medical emergency. The immediate and long-lasting consequences can be life-threatening.
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The agencies will collaborate in 15 crisis countries to detect, prevent and treat malnutrition. The work includes delivering nutritious food, along with addressing underlying causes of malnutrition.
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Recognizing the escalating disaster, the SRCS activated its Early Action Protocols for drought, triggering rapid assessments and preemptive delivery of aid and cash grants to 1,330 households.
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Report stresses urgent need for leaders, policy makers, donors and international and regional organizations to do more to support actors that work directly with communities facing these challenges.
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The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 highlights that the annual cost exceeds US$2.3 trillion when cascading and ecosystem costs are taken into account.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As a controversial United States and Israel-backed aid distribution plan gets underway in Gaza, the UN called on Tuesday for an âimmediate surgeâ of its own pre-positioned supplies to help prevent starvation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As countries face increasingly steep bills from natural hazards, the true cost of disasters is actually 10 times higher than previously estimated, with far-reaching effects across healthcare, housing, education and employment.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) has welcomed recent decisions by the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union to ease sanctions against Syria.
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From January to April 2025, more than 220 children have been killed or injured in attacks â approximately 40 per cent higher than the number of child casualties reported during the same period last year.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After another deadly weekend of Israeli attacks in Gaza, aid teams stressed once again on Monday that the âtrickleâ of supplies being allowed into the war-torn enclave will not halt famine.
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As of April 2025, more than 80% of Gaza Stripâs cropland area has been damaged (12,537 hectares out of 15,053) and 77.8% isn't accessible to farmers, leaving just 688 (4.6%) available for cultivation.
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More than 25,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in northern Mozambique in recent weeks, as conflict and a series of disasters fuel a worsening humanitarian crisis â one that risks deepening as vital relief operations face a severe funding shortfall.
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Nearly one out of five people attempting perilous sea movements in this region have been reported as dead or missing in 2025, making the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal waters amongst the deadliest.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Long-awaited food supplies have been looted in Gaza overnight while being transported to desperate communities in the war-torn enclave, UN aid teams reported on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General on Friday outlined a five-stage plan to provide lifesaving aid to the stricken population of Gaza, making clear the organization will not take part in any scheme that fails to respect international law or basic humanitarian principles.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions of people in Syria continue to face mortal danger from unexploded munitions, disease and malnutrition and more international support is urgently required, senior UN aid officials said on Friday.
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As violence intensifies in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the World Food Programme (WFP) warned Friday that food insecurity is worsening both within the country and in neighbouring States, where 140,000 Congolese have fled since January.
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Cross-border displacement is compounding the food crisis. In the first four months nearly 140,000 Congolese fled, with Burundi and Uganda receiving the largest influxes â 70,000 and 60,000 respectively.
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More than 25,000 people have been newly displaced in Mozambique in a matter of weeks. They join close to 1.3 million people who have been uprooted by armed conflict, back-to-back cyclones and drought.
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Hostilities between the South Sudan Peopleâs Defence Forces and the Sudan Peopleâs Liberation Army â In Opposition have left at least 75 civilians killed and 78 injured, and displaced thousands.
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Vital convoys entered Gaza this week carrying resources to support operations for hot meals; however, after nearly 80 days of a total blockade of humanitarian aid, families still face a high risk of famine.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Kingdom agreed to cede its control over the Chagos Islands to the Republic of Mauritius in an agreement signed between the two countries on Thursday.
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With more than 36,000 civilian deaths recorded in conflict zones in 2024 and sexual violence surging, senior UN officials warn that the international framework designed to protect civilians is collapsing.
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More than half the people killed in Gaza over the past week were in shelters and residential buildings, the UN human rights office OHCHR said on Thursday.
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The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Thursday that it has been forced to cut food aid to unprecedented lows in Kenyaâs sprawling refugee camps, as a result of severe funding shortages.
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UN agencies in Gaza confirmed on Thursday that desperately needed aid has finally arrived at warehouses inside the enclave after an 11-week blockade by Israeli authorities.
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Approximately 720,000 refugees supported by WFP in Kenya will from June receive an in-kind food ration of just 28 percent and all cash assistance will halt, unless additional funding is received.