News Monitor
A new UN assessment estimates that poverty in the State of Palestine will rise to 74.3 percent in 2024, affecting 4.1 million people, including 2.61 million people who are newly impoverished.
The floods have affected 42 of South Sudan's 78 counties. Fifty-eight health facilities have been submerged in five counties and nearly 90 others are inaccessible, with about 15 main roads cut off.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
In September, the reported death rate was 6.4 per cent among children due to malnutrition and medical complications. The situation is expected to deteriorate further with the onset of winter.
More than 350 patients, including pregnant women and people who just underwent surgical operations, reported to be trapped inside the Indonesian, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals.
More than 350 patients, including pregnant women and people who just underwent surgical operations, reported to be trapped inside the Indonesian, Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals.
A new ILO bulletin outlines the unprecedented devastation a year of war has wreaked on jobs, livelihoods and the economy at large in the occupied Palestinian territory.
A UN convoy including UNRWA successfully delivers aid to Lebanon for the first time since violence escalated there at the end of September, including enough to feed around 2,000 families for a week
New data reveals about 1.84 million people across Gaza Strip are experiencing extremely critical levels of acute food insecurity due to ongoing fighting, which has destroyed 70 percent of crop fields.
UNDP and Oxford's new research found that poverty rates in countries affected by conflict are nearly three times as high as compared to countries not affected by conflict.
Eighty percent of the record 163 million Africans facing acute food insecurity are in conflict-hit countries, including potentially 840,000 people confronting famine in Sudan, South Sudan, and Mali.
An Oxfam report, Food Wars, examined 54 conflict-affected countries and found that they account for almost all of the 281.6 million people facing acute hunger today.
Almost 700 million people – 8.5 per cent of the global population – live today on less than $2.15 per day, with 7.3 per cent of the population projected to be living in extreme poverty in 2030.
The unprecedented rains across Nigeria, Mali, Niger and DRC have created a worsening education crisis with the damage to schools, occupation of buildings by IDPs, and displacement away from schools.
Mali, Nigeria, Niger and Chad are either experiencing or imminently facing stockouts, while Cameroon, Pakistan, Sudan, Madagascar, South Sudan, Kenya, DRC and Uganda could run out by mid-2025.
Without the immediate allocation of resources and a ceasefire, millions of people will see their conditions deteriorate to near catastrophe levels, or worse be simply left with no assistance at all.
The International Rescue Committee calls for the international community to act urgently to scale up support to both new arrivals and the vulnerable host communities receiving them.
Up to 400,000 Palestinians were on Monday trapped across northern Gaza, with at least 300 people reportedly killed in nine days of bombardment, and a hospital sheltering thousands ablaze in the south.
The increasingly violent conflict, which started in April 2023, has made the delivery of healthcare - including reproductive care - increasingly challenging, putting mothers and children at risk.
Since 1 October, crossings have been kept closed and no essentials have been allowed from the south. The pressure on at least 400,000 people remaining in northern Gaza to leave southwards is mounting.
Since 1 October, crossings have been kept closed and no essentials have been allowed from the south. The pressure on at least 400,000 people remaining in northern Gaza to leave southwards is mounting.
Urgent additional funding is needed to sustain aid for the Lebanese people during these challenging times, as the demand for food, medicine, shelter, and other essential supplies continues to rise.