News Monitor
Approximately US$183 billion is needed for children's education in African countries annually to achieve related Sustainable Development Goals. Low learning outcomes remain a great concern.
The rise in overall forced displacement to 120 million was the twelfth consecutive annual increase. It reflects both new and mutating conflicts and a failure to resolve long-standing crises.
Ethiopia now hosts more than one million refugees, making it the second largest refugee-hosting country in Africa. Despite this, the Sudan conflict remains one of the IFRC's most underfunded operations.
The Commissionâs report will be presented to the Human Rights Councilâs 56th session on 19 June 2024 in Geneva. Two additional detailed reports providing expanded findings accompany this release.
Local governments have declared a state of emergency in 10 of 17 regions in the country after floods caused widespread devastation and displaced more than 119,000 people, including 44,000 children.
The rapid Post Disaster Needs Assessment report released by the Government with the UN, World Bank and EU, reveals the 2023 Deyr floods caused $176 million in loss and damage across 16 districts.
The vessel carrying 260 migrants capsized yesterday (10 June) near Alghareef Point in Shabwah governorate. Among those that lost their lives in the devastating tragedy are 31 women and six children.
The first standard allocation of the year comes at a critical time to avert a further deterioration of living conditions for the people benefitting from the support.
Adopted by a large majority with 14 votes in favour and Russia abstaining, the resolution also urges both parties to fully implement the terms of the proposal âwithout delay and without condition.â
Gaza: Security Council adopts US resolution calling for âimmediate, full and complete ceasefireâ
Last year saw the highest number of state-based conflicts since 1946. In addition, the past three years were the most violent in the last three decades, according to PRIO.
Alarmed by Moscowâs increased attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure and population, speakers call for diplomacy, de- escalation ahead of peace summit in Switzerland.
The war has caused unprecedented devastation to the Palestinian labour market and the wider economy, according to new data and analysis by the ILO and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.
The long-term impacts of COVID-19 on child diet quality are still being seen, with the addition of multiple health outbreaks, including cholera, impacts of the climate crisis, and rising food prices.
In Central Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, more than 3.3 million people are forcibly displaced due to relentless conflict, exacerbated by the worsening effects of the climate crisis.
Rampant insecurity and food insufficiency afflict Cameroon amid an ongoing refugee crisis from neighbouring Central African Republic; however, these emergencies are off the world's radar.
The agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food aid to another five million people by year-end. Hunger is deepening in Sudan and in neighbouring countries to which millions of people have fled.