News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 3 from 5)
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"Without increased international mobilization, humanitarian needs will skyrocket, regional stability will be further jeopardized, and our capacity to respond will be severely compromised," said UNHC.
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Data reveals cases of sexual violence have risen by more than two and a half times, abductions by sixfold, killing and maiming by sevenfold, and attacks on schools and hospitals multiplied by 12.
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Since February, more than 40,000 Congolese nationals â mostly women and children â have arrived in Burundi. This number is likely to increase as hostilities escalate in the DRC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has launched a $40.4 million appeal to address the deepening humanitarian crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and its impact on neighbouring countries, particularly Burundi, where thousands are arriving daily in desperate conditions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has continued to uproot thousands more people to neighbouring countries where they face dire conditions without many basic necessities, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Security Council prepared to gather on Wednesday to debate the international communityâs response to the growing emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UNâs top aid official there urged all warring parties to allow lifesaving relief supplies to reach the most vulnerable.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has condemned the looting of thousands of tonnes of relief supplies in the city of Bukavu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after Rwanda-backed M23 rebels swept in at the weekend, reportedly meeting little resistance.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A dire displacement crisis is escalating in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo as M23 rebels make headway while aid routes are cut off, UN humanitarians warned on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As M23 rebels continue to gain ground in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the countryâs top UN humanitarian official has told UN News that increasing âcomplexity and needsâ are fuelling a crisis which had already left more than a million people displaced before the latest surge in fighting.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Thousands of people affected by the fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are leaving displacement sites in and around Goma for safer areas, the UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA reported on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite significant challenges, humanitarians plan to stay and deliver in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between the Rwandan-backed M23 Movement and national forces continues, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Secretary-General has instructed agencies, funds and programmes to pause all activities in Saâada governorate in Yemen for security reasons, the global body said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Continued clashes in South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are triggering mass displacement and causing civilian casualties, UN humanitarian affairs office OCHA said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNâs top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday called for Goma airport to be urgently reopened, warning its continued closure is paralyzing relief operations.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The current phase of fighting erupted in late January in the mineral-rich eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo between government forces and the armed M23 group.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
United Nations agencies on Friday called for an end to the violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as fighting between Government forces and the Rwandan-backed M23 armed group expands.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Humanitarian infrastructure and warehouses have been looted, severely compromising the aid response. Significant quantities of food and essential medical supplies have been lost in targeted attacks.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After days of intense fighting, the humanitarian situation in Goma, capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), has reached alarming levels â with humanitarian needs now massive and response capacities severely strained.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As UN agencies reported ârelative calmâ on Wednesday in the city of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), humanitarians warned that the chaos caused by advancing M23 rebel forces could fuel a region-wide health emergency.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: Forum des ONGI en RDC
Essential civilian infrastructure, such as healthcare facilities, schools and markets, are also attacked or under threat. All must be protected, as well as aid workers, in accordance with IHL.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The latest reports from Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from UN teams on the ground indicate a fast-deteriorating situation on Tuesday amid an ongoing assault by M23 rebels on the provincial capital.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Security Council met for the second time in three days on Tuesday over the escalating crisis in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, with UN agencies and partners on the ground reporting chaos in the streets of the regional capital Goma amid rising death and displacement as the M23 armed group takes over towns and villages. App users can follow our live coverage as it happened, here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Security Council convened its second emergency meeting in three days on Tuesday to address the escalating crisis in Goma â the regional capital of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: Save the Children
Large parts of Goma have been without water and electricity since Friday, and parents have no food or clean water for their children. People are trying to flee but with nowhere to go.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As fighting intensifies between the Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group and Congolese forces, UN chief of Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix underscored the critical state of the battle for eastern DRCâs regional capital Goma, describing the crisis as âvolatile and dangerousâ.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Spiralling violence and killings in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo triggered an emergency Security Council meeting Sunday morning amid peacekeeper and civilian deaths along with sharp calls for action from top UN officials. App users can follow our coverage of the meeting and reports from colleagues on the ground here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo involving the non-state armed group M23 have caused further mass displacement in the mineral-rich region, with fears that the regional capital Goma could come under attack, UN agencies warned on Friday.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
The number of people displaced has surged to more than 400,000 this year alone, almost double the number reported just last week. Since our last update on 17 January, bombs have fallen on IDP sites.
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Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: International Rescue Committee
The rapid deterioration of needs means that DRC is one of the countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crisis in 2025, according to the IRC's Emergency Watchlist 2025.
ReliefWeb Headlines
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees
Already dire humanitarian conditions are worsening rapidly, and access to these vulnerable populations is severely restricted by insecurity, roadblocks and the presence of violent armed actors.