News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 3 from 12)
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Sudan's ongoing civil war has created the world’s largest and fastest-growing displacement, yet this crisis has been largely overshadowed by conflicts and political tensions elsewhere.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying clashes in Sudan’s Kordofan region between rival militaries have killed hundreds and wounded many more in recent days, warned the UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating violence, displacement and heavy rains are deepening the needs of civilians caught in the war in Sudan, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Monday.
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Sudan’s brutal civil war is pushing more children towards the brink of starvation, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Friday, highlighting a sharp and alarming rise in severe acute malnutrition (SAM) cases across the country.
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The alarming levels of acute malnutrition recorded during the post-harvest season, combined with constrained access
to treatment, raise serious concerns for children in the July-September lean season.
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Alarming 46 per cent rise in children diagnosed with malnutrition across five Darfur states underscores urgent need for access and aid across conflict-affected region.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians on Monday sounded the alarm over the worsening conditions in Sudan, as violence continues, and food and water remain at critically low levels.
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These distributions mark WFP’s first access in four months to deliver life-saving food aid to more than 40,000 people facing catastrophic hunger in the most remote parts of Nasir and Ulang counties.
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Save the Children said the attacks on healthcare facilities and workers have increased as the country is reeling from a spiralling cholera outbreak, with 80,000 confirmed cases.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN humanitarians on Tuesday sounded the alarm over worsening humanitarian conditions in Sudan, as escalating violence continues to displace civilians and the rising risk of severe flooding during the current rainy season.
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Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday.
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The 2025 seed distribution campaign kicked off in West Darfur, where more than 750 000 people – over half the population – are facing crisis-level hunger or worse due to conflict and food insecurity.
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in Chad, which hosts almost a quarter of the four million refugees from Sudan, food rations will be cut unless funds are received soon. In Uganda, many are surviving on less than 500 calories a day.
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Extreme hunger and high levels of malnutrition and mortality are likely ongoing in North Darfur and Khartoum, while the operational challenges of the GHF are still resulting in mass starvation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.
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With humanitarian needs on the rise and more people fleeing violence in Sudan, IOM is urgently appealing for $6.5 million to resume this vital support and prevent vulnerable people from being stranded.
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Three years on, Sudan’s war relentlessly targets women and girls. "The scale and brutality of violations are beyond anything we’ve previously seen", says a gender-based violence specialist in Sudan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Global investment fell a full 11 per cent to $1.5 trillion last year – it’s a huge blow for developing nations, the UN trade agency, UNCTAD, said on Thursday.
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Sudanese refugees report serious human rights violations, including physical and sexual violence, arbitrary detention, and forced recruitment. About 60% have been separated from family members.
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A deadly mix of conflict, climate change and poverty has pushed 2.3 million under-fives in South Sudan into life-threatening acute malnutrition, with rates soaring just months after funding cuts.
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Khartoum State has experienced a rapid increase in cholera cases since May, with more than 16,000 cumulative cases and 239 deaths reported across the state’s seven localities.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Two counties in the Upper Nile State of South Sudan are sliding into famine, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned after a new update was released on Thursday from the UN-partnered food security classification system, the IPC.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The very real risk of famine continues to stalk Sudan’s communities impacted by war, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday, in an appeal for more funding to support immediate needs and boost longer-term recovery across the country.
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The closure of the hospital and cessation of MSF’s support to 13 facilities has left an area spanning more than 124 miles without any secondary health care facility.
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The 15 trucks were carrying vital nutritional supplies to North Darfur, a region in which hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people are at high risk of malnutrition and starvation.
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Some 100,000 people seeking safety in DRC, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda cited insecurity, inter-communal violence, and deteriorating humanitarian conditions as the main reasons for fleeing.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.
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In just over two years, Chad has seen the refugee population surge to more than 1.2 million, far exceeding the number received during the previous two decades and placing unsustainable pressure on it.
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The influx of patients is the direct consequence of the escalation of armed conflict and violence the country has experienced in the past months and the scope of the resulting humanitarian crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned of an escalating public health crisis in Sudan, as conflict and mass displacement continue to drive a surge in disease, particularly cholera and malaria.