News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 4 from 92)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Pope Leo called on the international community to renew its commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition, describing access to adequate food as a āfundamental human rightā during a visit to the World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Escalating violence in and around the Sudanese city of El Obeid is putting civilians at increased risk and disrupting essential services, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Monday.
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Deadly drone and missile attacks in Ukraine over the weekend represented a ādangerous cycle of escalationā in Russiaās full-scale four-year-old war, the Security Council heard on Monday from Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, while Edem Wosornu, crisis response director at the UN relief office, OCHA, warned that āthe choices made here can mean the difference between lives saved or lives lost.ā
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According to ALNAP, the United States and Germany together account for nearly nine in ten dollars lost last year. Gulf donors, however, have increased their contributions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After another deadly night of clashes in Lebanon, aid agencies issued a new alert for Gaza, where 265 Palestinian children have been killed since a ceasefire was announced in October 2025.
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More than two million forcibly displaced people, including more than 320,000 refugees, live in areas at risk in the DRC, where fighting continues alongside the spread of Ebola disease.
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"These children were not killed in a warzone. They were killed in their homes. In their schools. Playing football. Fishing. They were shot, bombed, and struck by quadcopters."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Security Council debated conditions in Gaza at the request of its 10 elected members amid concern that the territory's humanitarian crisis is being overshadowed by wider regional developments. The meeting took place under a ceasefire that has existed in name since October 2025 ā but nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, and most Gazans remain displaced. Relief chief Tom Fletcher told ambassadors that āfragile gainsā since the truce are āthe bare minimum of what Palestinians need.ā Full coverage here, and wider Meetings Coverage can be found here.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions of people already facing hunger, displacement and economic hardship could soon face another major climate shock, as UN agencies warned on Thursday that extreme weather risks are intensifying across some of the worldās most vulnerable regions.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Two United Nations agencies have together welcomed more than $1 billion in assistance from the United States to support their operations targeting millions of children and hungry families in more than 40 countries.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations has again called for freedom of movement for its peacekeepers in Lebanon who continue to closely monitor developments in the south of the country, including in the wake of the recent provisional agreement signed by the United States and Iran.
ReliefWeb News
The $202 million appeal calls for urgent, flexible funding ahead of climate shocks that could threaten food security, livelihoods and agricultural production across the most vulnerable regions.
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About 170,000 households - nearly one million people - live in tents. Another 5,000 households sleep outdoors, while 52,000 households live in overcrowded shelters. Summer will only sharpen the risks.
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Sudan, South Sudan, Yemen and Palestine remain hotspots of highest concern, with northeast Nigeria and Somalia joining the list as acute hunger risks deteriorate towards catastrophic levels.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Treatment capacity for the rare and deadly Bundibugyo species of Ebola is expanding in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that community mistrust remains a major challenge to ending the outbreak.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Millions of people across some of the worldās most vulnerable regions are expected to face worsening hunger in the months ahead, as conflict, economic pressures and shrinking aid budgets exacerbate long-running crises.
ReliefWeb News
Women and girls are often the primary caretakers of the sick. Furthermore, the demands of increased water collection and care force them to travel further on foot, raising their exposure to violence.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
In Ebola-stricken Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), winning the race against the disease requires earning the communityās trust first and foremost, humanitarians said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Although United Nations peacekeepers continue to observe violence and exchanges of fire in Lebanon, the level is significantly reduced when compared to the weekend, UN Spokesperson StƩphane Dujarric said on Tuesday.
ReliefWeb News
Between March and May,1,400 patients were admitted to the therapeutic feeding centre at Bay Regional Hospital. Even after expanding from 50 beds to 125, the facility is being pushed beyond its limits.
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Water production has dropped radically ā to about 40 per cent of what it was before October 2023. Independent water production ā from wells in Gaza ā is less than a third of what it was.
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Drought, extreme heat, and heatwaves are the most prevalent trio of hazards endangering millions of children globally, according to the UNICEF Children's Climate Risk Report 2026 report.
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Only one in five health facilities in Ituri, one of the epicenters of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has access to enough clean water, according to Oxfam field data.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Despite the agreement announced on Sunday between the United States and Iran, displaced people in Lebanon continue to face difficulties in returning to their communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has reported.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As representatives of Iran and the United States reportedly prepared to sign a new peace agreement at the end of the week, the UN on Monday stressed the urgent need to open an aid corridor to transit the choked-off Strait of Hormuz and prevent a global hunger crisis.
ReliefWeb News
The outbreak has rapidly become the third-largest ever recorded in the DRC, with some 782 confirmed cases and 181 confirmed deaths - and children are among the most vulnerable, said Save the Children.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The odyssey begins in Indonesia and ends, 15,000 kilometres later, in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Along the way, critical food aid destined for young Afghan students crosses nine countries, over land and sea, skirting geopolitical unrest and conflict zones.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The deadly Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is continuing to spread with a spike in child infections an increasingly likely scenario in the days ahead, UN agencies said on Friday.
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The latest Global Trends Report shows that returns are also gathering pace: 14.7 million displaced people returned to their areas or countries of origin in 2025.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As Russiaās full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its fifth year, conditions in southern Ukraine have rapidly deteriorated. Maintaining humanitarian operations has become an increasingly complex balancing act between enabling aid delivery and managing risk.