News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 21 from 78)
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The few medical facilities that continue to function - including the Red Cross Field Hospital - are overwhelmed and running dangerously low on essential supplies, including fuel, and even body bags.
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The last three weeks have seen a significant surge, with 80 patients received between 9 and 15 June; 77 between 16 and 22 June; and 94 between 23 and 28 June being treated at the MSF CTU in Abyei.
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At least 12.2 million children have reportedly been killed, maimed or displaced in conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in less than two years, and one child killed or maimed every 15 minutes.
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
A clearer picture of needs across Iran is beginning to emerge after the conflict this month with Israel, which left hundreds dead, several hospitals hit and a spike in Afghan refugees returning home, the UN’s top official in Tehran said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa in the last two years reportedly killed, maimed, or displaced over 12 million children across the region, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations on Tuesday reported that humanitarian operations in Gaza are facing escalating strain, as ongoing fuel shortages, access restrictions and military activity continue to undermine aid delivery and essential services.
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The 400 aid distribution points operating during the temporary ceasefire have been replaced by just four military-controlled sites, forcing two million people into overcrowded, militarized zones.
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IOM has consistently warned that Afghanistan is not equipped to absorb such high numbers of returnees. With nearly 900,000 returns from Iran and Pakistan combined this year.
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UNHCR is seeking international solidarity as the number of refugees and asylum seekers surpasses a milestone. It is operating with only 29% of its required funding, leaving a gap of $97 million.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
More than 700,000 Afghan migrants have returned from Iran so far this year, including 256,000 in June alone, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Monday, warning of immense pressures on Afghanistan’s overstretched support systems.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The crisis in Gaza is worsening, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as ongoing hostilities and access restrictions drive displaced communities deeper into despair.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.
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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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Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap.
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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
The first delivery earlier this week of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people, who continue to be shot and killed in their search for food, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Myanmar is spiralling deeper into humanitarian catastrophe, the UN’s top human rights official warned on Friday, as escalating military attacks, crippling aid restrictions and collapsing international support push millions toward starvation and despair.
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.
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Across the country, the humanitarian situation is deteriorating. More than 3.5 million people have been displaced by conflict and nearly 22 million need help. About 1.3 million people have fled.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continued bombardment of the enclave, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and partners.
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.
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Devastating cuts to food rations have affected more than 700,000 refugees in Kakuma and Dadaab and Kalobeyei Settlement. As of June, refugees are receiving just 28% of their full in-kind food ration.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN reported on Wednesday.
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“The world order that emerged from the horrors of the Second World War has lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. In just a few short months, that progress has begun to wildly unravel.”
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza – a likely war crime – the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly three months after Myanmar’s strongest earthquake in a century, more than six million people remain in urgent need of assistance, as the disaster compounds a humanitarian crisis driven by years of conflict, political turmoil and mass displacement.
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Report highlights how energy is one of the invisible threads that hold together family life and essential services—powering kitchens, hospitals, water pumps, food preparation and aid logistics.