News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 8 from 95)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite the agreement announced on Sunday between the United States and Iran, displaced people in Lebanon continue to face difficulties in returning to their communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
ReliefWeb News
The outbreak has rapidly become the third-largest ever recorded in the DRC, with some 782 confirmed cases and 181 confirmed deaths - and children are among the most vulnerable, said Save the Children.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The odyssey begins in Indonesia and ends, 15,000 kilometres later, in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Along the way, critical food aid destined for young Afghan students crosses nine countries, over land and sea, skirting geopolitical unrest and conflict zones.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is continuing to spread with a spike in child infections an increasingly likely scenario in the days ahead, UN agencies said on Friday.
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The latest Global Trends Report shows that returns are also gathering pace: 14.7 million displaced people returned to their areas or countries of origin in 2025.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, conditions in southern Ukraine have rapidly deteriorated. Maintaining humanitarian operations has become an increasingly complex balancing act between enabling aid delivery and managing risk.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Global forced displacement has decreased for the first time in a decade, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Thursday, though the figure remains unacceptably high and tens of millions of people are still trapped in prolonged exile with little prospect of rebuilding their lives.
ReliefWeb News
MSF is supporting the Borno State Ministry of Health (MoH) to respond to a rapidly evolving surge in suspected cholera cases across Borno State, where more than seven thousand people have fallen ill since early May 2026.
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Save the Children warns that parts of South Sudan are at risk of famine as acute food insecurity and child malnutrition worsen, with conflict, flooding and aid suspensions disrupting essential services in Jonglei state.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating attacks on bridges, roads and other civilian infrastructure in Sudan are disrupting humanitarian access and putting civilians at further risk, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Ebola-stricken eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) a massive push for early testing and contact tracing is helping to contain the virus, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
The 2026 Global Peace Index reveals a world struggling with the economic consequences of a record-high number of conflicts that are increasingly interconnected and difficult to resolve.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Monday morning just as millions of children were returning to school after the summer break.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Security Council met on Afghanistan, senior officials and civil society representatives delivered a clear warning Monday: despite relative security under the Taliban, worsening humanitarian conditions, restrictions on women and growing economic pressures are creating a fragile and uncertain future.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Months of fighting and insecurity have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei State, triggering “one of the most severe conflict-related displacement emergencies in recent years”, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
Since early May, drone strikes around Tina, Sudan, near the Chadian border, have intensified, leading to repeated influxes of wounded patients at Tiné Hospital, supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Chad.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
What began as a geopolitical crisis in the Middle East nearly 100 days ago is increasingly becoming a food security crisis elsewhere, with UN agencies warning of rising hunger in Africa and malnourished children being turned away from medical clinics in Afghanistan.
ReliefWeb News
The 10 most neglected crises for 2025 are Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Colombia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Honduras, Ecuador, Cameroon, Nigeria and Mozambique.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Months since Gaza’s nominal ceasefire began, Palestinians continue to be killed and maimed in drone and airstrikes, including the enclave’s police force which is crucial to peace and reconstruction efforts, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly half of the population in Government-controlled areas of Yemen are facing high levels of acute food insecurity with the crisis set to deepen further if international aid cuts continue, according to the latest analysis by the leading UN-backed global food security platform.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN Secretary-General António Guterres expressed alarm on Tuesday over reported overnight exchanges of fire between the United States and Iran, as well as reports that Iran targeted Kuwait and Bahrain.
ReliefWeb News
Violence in the Central Sahel is spreading beyond its traditional borders and rapidly spilling over into coastal West Africa, rendering the Sahel one of the main epicentres of violence in Africa.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the world approaches nine years since the mass displacement of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar into Bangladesh, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has appealed to the international community not to abandon the 1.2 million refugees living in the country, most of them in camps in Cox’s Bazar.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to impact civilians and efforts to fight Ebola, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Overnight attacks in three key cities in Ukraine have left several civilians dead, scores more injured, and homes, hospitals and shops destroyed or damaged, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN health agency in Lebanon is verifying reports of strikes on a hospital in the southern city of Tyre on Monday, amid a concerning rise in attacks on healthcare in the country.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Families in Gaza living on or near the so-called Yellow Line controlled by the Israeli military have told the UN they live in constant fear of being killed or injured.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As hostilities escalate in Lebanon despite a recent ceasefire extension, the United Nations continues to push for peace and support displaced civilians by providing food, protection and other assistance.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Two weeks into the latest deadly Ebola outbreak, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates there are now 906 suspected cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), including 223 suspected deaths.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The dire conditions in the Gaza Strip are trapping children “in an endless cycle of suffering” and their heartbroken parents can only look on, an official with the UN child rights agency UNICEF said on Friday in a fresh appeal for greater humanitarian access to support families in the war-ravaged enclave.