News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 82)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the UN Secretary-General touched down in Beirut on Friday in solidarity with the people of Lebanon, UN agencies highlighted the dangers for civilians and particularly pregnant women and migrant workers, amid ongoing airstrikes and rocket fire between Hezbollah fighters and Israel.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than five years after Myanmarâs military coup, international resolve to hold the junta accountable must not weaken, an independent human rights expert warned on Friday, as escalating violence and growing humanitarian needs push millions of civilians deeper into crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In a solidarity visit to the war-ravaged capital of Lebanon, the UN chief on Friday announced a flash humanitarian appeal of $308.3 million to support civilians there, after ongoing Israeli strikes countering rocket launches from Hezbollah left around 816,000 Lebanese internally displaced, a figure that looks set to rise.
ReliefWeb News
Lebanon is approaching a breaking point as displacement accelerates, with one in every seven people now displaced in the first ten days of the escalation, says the Norwegian Refugee Council.
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Between 600,000 and one million households are now temporarily displaced, representing up to 3.2 million people. Most are fleeing major urban areas towards the north and rural areas to seek safety.
ReliefWeb News
The evacuation order for the northern border town of Akobo East, which forced thousands of people - including all aid agency staff â to leave at the weekend, has deepened catastrophic conditions.
At least 52 million children facing disrupted education due to Middle East and wider region conflict
ReliefWeb News
Calculations by Save the Children using UN population data showed the extent to which education for children has been impacted, with schools damaged, closed or repurposed as shelters.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNâs emergency relief chief on Wednesday condemned the â$1 billion-a-dayâ cost of the war in the Middle East, at a time when humanitarian needs are soaring and aid funding is falling dangerously short.
ReliefWeb News
According to authorities, since the escalation to the conflict started on 2 March, the number of people in Lebanon registered on the governmentâs online displacement platform continues to rise.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Toxic âblack rainâ linked to strikes on oil depots, mass displacement and continuing disruption to aid supply chains are upending lives across the Middle East and beyond after 10 days of war in the region, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
This year, about 110,000 Afghans have returned from Iran, with roughly 1,700 each day since the onset of the conflict. We remain concerned developments in the region could trigger larger movements.
ReliefWeb News
More than 3.3 million people are struggling to find enough food, with families in the Far North, North and East regions already skipping meals, selling livestock or taking on debt just to survive.
ReliefWeb News
Fifteen years into the conflict, food insecurity is threatening many of the country's youngest. Nearly 6.4 million under-fives suffer from acute malnutrition across the northern regions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Conflict continues to fuel suffering and drive humanitarian needs in Myanmar, the UN relief coordination office, OCHA, said in a bulletin on Monday.
ReliefWeb News
Surging food and fuel prices driven by the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could have ripple effects that will worsen hunger for vulnerable populations in the region and beyond.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The escalating war in the Middle East has heightened growing concerns about further civilian suffering and displacement in the region and far beyond, UN agencies said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
Intensifying hostilities have triggered significant population movement, while clashes along the Afghanistan and Pakistan border have forced thousands of families to flee.
ReliefWeb News
In the last 24 hours alone, nearly 60,000 people, including 18,000 children, have been newly displaced, adding to the tens of thousands already uprooted. Seven children have been killed and 38 injured.
ReliefWeb News
Lebanon is the first country where weâve needed to respond immediately due to displacements. Population movement is fluid, with people leaving South Lebanon, the Bekaa and Beirutâs southern suburbs.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
On the fourth day of Israeli and United States airstrikes against Iran and amid growing violence and instability in the Middle East, the UN urgently called for protection of civilians and warned of growing displacement and humanitarian needs.
ReliefWeb News
The shipment will restore lifesaving immunisation services to children and communities across five localities including Kadugli, where famine was confirmed in September 2025.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The escalating violence in the Middle East region is compounding an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Travelling more than 200 kilometres (124 miles) from Yambio, the capital of Western Equatoria State in southwestern South Sudan, a team of justice experts escorted by United Nations peacekeepers moved slowly along rough, dusty roads, determined to reach communities that have waited years for their day in court.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Reports on Friday that major cities in Afghanistan have been bombed by the Pakistan military in a new escalation between the two countries have raised fears for civilians already struggling under the harsh rule of the de facto Taliban authorities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
South Sudan was the focus of debate in the UN Human Rights Council on Friday as escalating violence and political tensions â alongside a massive humanitarian emergency and war in neighbouring Sudan â threaten efforts to achieve lasting peace.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Four years after Russiaâs full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people are trying to overcome deep-rooted trauma and rebuild what has been lost.
ReliefWeb News
MSF is calling for a massive scale-up of lifesaving aid and unhindered access amid the ongoing catastrophe in Gaza, where lives continue to be lost due to sustained violence and aid restrictions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Cubaâs humanitarian situation is worsening as fuel shortages deepen nearly a month after Washington took measures to block oil supplies from entering the Caribbean nation, a senior UN official warned on Wednesday.
ReliefWeb News
South Sudan continues to grapple with new arrivals fleeing conflict in Sudan, while millions remain displaced within the country and across borders due to years of conflict, flooding and instability.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Funding shortfalls are putting the lives of more than 1.9 million displaced people in South Sudan at risk amid rising humanitarian needs, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday.