News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 5)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
New data shows that nearly three in four countries in Europe now use Artificial Intelligence in their health services to make a diagnosis.
ReliefWeb News
Armed groups attacked at least 587 schools, affecting over 285,500 children between March 2025 and February 2026, over three times the 172 schools (68,700 children) attacked in the preceding year.
ReliefWeb News
After recent stability in Uvira and the border reopening, some refugees expressed a wish to go home. Returns were also accelerated by the severe underfunding in Burundi, which has reduced assistance.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Security Council-endorsed UN Support Office in Haiti is on track to deliver on behalf of the Haitian people, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Wednesday.
ReliefWeb News
Due to insufficient funding, the 2026 humanitarian response will focus on 7.3 million people, out of nearly 15 million individuals who require life-saving assistance and protection.
ReliefWeb News
In 2025, DRC was again faced with a major measles epidemic, with more than 82,869 suspected cases and 1,175 deaths. This outbreak coincides with an extremely fragile health situation and insecurity.
ReliefWeb News
Over 84,000 people from South Kivu crossed into Burundi to escape conflict. Shortages of food, clean water, sanitation facilities, shelter and healthcare are putting children at risk.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
An estimated 500,000 people have been forced from their homes since fighting erupted in South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), at the beginning of December.
ReliefWeb News
MSF warns about the risk of the spread of epidemic diseases such as cholera and measles, and a catastrophic increase in malaria cases among people made vulnerable in the midst of this crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Civilians across eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing collapsing health services and mass displacement as fighting spreads, undermining recent peace efforts and raising fears of a wider regional crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the UN said on Thursday, warning that the M23 rebel offensive is driving a rapidly worsening humanitarian emergency.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has claimed more than 70 civilian lives, displaced over 200,000 people and cut thousands off from food assistance, prompting UN warnings of a rapidly expanding humanitarian emergency spilling across borders.
ReliefWeb News
The outbreak has disrupted children’s education, exposing them to illness and loss. In one tragic case, 16 of 62 children died within days after the disease tore through a Kinshasa orphanage.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen amid ongoing fighting that has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes and created acute hunger, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
Cases reported over the past three weeks are showing early signs of a downward trend. However, maintaining and ramping up control measures remain critical in stopping the outbreak, says WHO.
ReliefWeb News
The outbreak has affected the Bulape and Mweka health zones, where health officials have been carrying out investigations following reports of 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In the days leading up to the fall of Goma, the capital of North Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dr. Thierno Balde slept with a helmet and bulletproof vest beside his bed as shells rattled the walls of his hotel.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The preventable but often deadly waterborne disease – cholera – continues to spread around the world, driven by conflict and poverty, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
Since January, more than 35,000 suspected cholera cases and at least 852 related deaths have been reported – an average of more than four deaths every day and a 62 percent increase compared to 2024.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA is stressing the need to scale up support for displaced families in Haiti amid ongoing insecurity and violence.
ReliefWeb News
WHO supported the authorities to develop public health situation analysis, provide health services to those affected, assess needs and provide safe drinking water to the displaced and their hosts.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Foreign Ministers of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a draft peace agreement in Washington this Friday, tensions and violence continue to grip eastern DRC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The conflict-impacted people of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) urgently need much more international assistance than they are getting today, the UN’s top aid official said on Thursday.
ReliefWeb News
As the refugee influx into Burundi reaches a critical point, with thousands of individuals fleeing conflict and instability in DR Congo, the country faces a significant humanitarian challenge.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As diplomatic efforts continue to end fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN development agency (UNDP) issued an appeal on Friday on behalf of people uprooted by the violence to help them rebuild their lives and livelihoods.
ReliefWeb News
MSF continues to treat new victims of sexual violence daily in Goma - nearly 7,400 patients between January and April. Twenty kilometres west of Goma, in Saké, more than 2,400 survivors were treated.
ReliefWeb News
More than 290 schools have been damaged or destroyed this year, preventing children from attending lessons. This brings the total number of out-of-school children in the province to 1.3 million.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarian teams have completed a mission to the Sudanese town of Tawila to provide life-saving assistance for civilians recently displaced by intensifying violence in North Darfur state.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A UN food convoy has successfully delivered vital supplies to support tens of thousands of displaced people affected by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to humanitarian teams on the ground.