News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 17 from 78)
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Across the region countries - including China, Pakistan, Thailand, Laos and the Philippines - are experiencing storms and earlier-than-usual monsoon seasons partly brought about by climate change.
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About 2.5 million people live in areas that are currently classified as moderately or severely affected by drought conditions. A joint assessment mission by UN agencies and partners is underway.
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As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need for a political solution to the crisis in Gaza that can lead to a lasting peace between the two peoples.
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Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed â no aid trucks have reached the region, the nearby city of El Fasher is still under siege and food prices are four times higher than other parts of the country.
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Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.
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Obtaining food is no longer a routine journey in Gaza; it has become a race, fraught with death on all sides as women and children risk their lives to get aid.
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In Gaza, UN aid teams continue to report that Gaza is on the brink of famine with the UN human rights chief on Monday denouncing images of starvation inside the enclave as âan affront to our collective humanity.â
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Since the beginning of 2025, 600 refugees have arrived in Uganda each day, bringing the total number of new arrivals to almost two million. But with funding rapidly running out, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) is warning the East African nation will not be able to continue providing life-saving services and aid.
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As conflict intensifies between rival militaries in Sudan, the UN humanitarian wing (OCHA) expressed alarm on Monday over mounting civilian casualties and worsening humanitarian conditions across the country.
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The outbreak has put over 640,000 children under five at risk. Since June, more than 1,180 cholera cases and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, which hosts over 500,000 displaced.
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Recent attacks by armed groups in northern Mozambique displaced tens of thousands in July alone, deepening an already dire humanitarian crisis in Cabo Delgado and straining limited aid supplies.
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In western Gaza City, displaced people live crammed into cramped tents, and a human tragedy is unfolding across a landscape of hunger.
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As Gaza faces famine-like conditions, large numbers of people reportedly continue to be killed and injured while searching for food, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday.
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Despite Israelâs 27 July announcement of daily military pauses in western Gaza âto improve humanitarian responses,â Israeli forces continued attacks along food convoy routes and near Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid sites, according to the UN human rights office in Palestine (OHCHR).
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The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, is facing a sharp rise in child protection risks, driven by settler violence, military operations, detention, and forced displacement.
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Growing hunger is now compounded by violence following clashes between protestors and police. Dire conditions in the camps have been exacerbated by drastic aid cuts, causing severe food shortages.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Gaza, UN aid teams continued their efforts on Thursday to help people of the war-shattered enclave by retrieving urgently needed fuel and other supplies from the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south of the Strip.
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As Myanmar reels from deadly floods, renewed fighting and widespread displacement, the United Nations warned on Thursday that urgent humanitarian needs are going unmet due to escalating violence and blocked access.
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Famine conditions are tightening their grip on the Gaza Strip, as the latest UN humanitarian update warns of soaring malnutrition-related deaths, relentless civilian attacks, and mounting obstacles to aid access amid deepening crisis.
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The first UN inter-agency mission to embattled Sweida governorate in Syria arrived there on Thursday, UN aid coordination office OCHA has reported.
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The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) raised the alarm on Wednesday over the rising toll of hunger, disease and displacement in various conflict-ridden parts of Sudan.
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Despite daily âtactical pausesâ declared by Israeli forces, humanitarian conditions in Gaza remain catastrophic, with children starving, aid workers overwhelmed and fuel and water supplies critically low, UN humanitarians reported on Wednesday.
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People in Haiti have expressed âdespairâ following the âabrupt suspensionâ of a wide range of humanitarian services, according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, in the Caribbean country.
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Ongoing violence has displaced more than 100,000 people in two regions of Somalia in the past two months, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday.
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The heightened risk of cholera spreading is driven by active outbreaks in DR Congo and Nigeria, which raise the threat of cross-border transmission to neighbouring countries.
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âThe worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,â UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave.
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The IPC Global Initiative is issuing this Alert based on the latest evidence available until 25 July to draw urgent attention to the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
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This alarming data was reported by Ard El Insan, which has been delivering nutrition and medical support to Palestinians across Gaza. It is an almost 10% increase from May.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As starvation worsens in war-torn Gaza, UN agencies repeated warnings on Monday that Israelâs decision to support a âone-week scale-upâ of aid is far from enough to reverse deadly malnutrition rates in the enclave.
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A fragile de-escalation in Syriaâs Sweida region is âlargely holdingâ after weeks of violence displaced 175,000 people, killed hundreds and devastated critical infrastructure â exposing deep fissures in the countryâs political transition.