News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 4 from 14)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN relief chief Tom Fletcher has highlighted recent diplomatic progress made towards a three-month pause to the brutal fighting in Sudan between rival militaries.
New, deadly floods displace more than 100,000 in South Sudan as conflict and funding cuts impede aid
ReliefWeb News
If the flooding continues, up to 400,000 people are likely to be displaced by the end of the year, exceeding flood displacement levels seen in 2024. Peak impacts are expected between now and October.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The United Nations has sounded the alarm over Sudanâs spiralling crisis, warning that deadly attacks in El Fasher, the collapse of essential services, and mass displacement are pushing millions in Darfur and beyond closer to catastrophe.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Aid agencies working in war-torn Sudan issued an alert on Friday over the particular harm faced by children there, the longer the conflict goes on.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Over 100,000 people in South Sudan have been displaced by what the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has called ânew deadly floods.â
ReliefWeb News
New analysis by Save the Children of Global Education Cluster figures shows about 13 million of 17 million school-age children in Sudan are out of school in one of the worldâs worst education crises.
ReliefWeb News
In the capital alone, the number of returnees is expected to reach 2.1 million this year, compared to an estimated five million who were displaced from the city at the height of the fighting.
ReliefWeb News
Save the Children delivered the first emergency medical supplies, food, water and tarpaulins to a remote village in western Sudan cut off by a massive landslide, killing between 300 and 1,000 people.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
War-torn Sudan continues to face âa horrific humanitarian situationâ as UN colleagues scramble to help communities affected by the devastating landslide that struck Tarseen village in South Darfur state over the weekend, UN Spokesperson StĂ©phane Dujarric said on Thursday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarians âwill spare no effortâ to ensure that aid reaches people affected by a deadly landslide in a remote mountain village in war-torn Sudan, a senior UN official in the country said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Humanitarians continue to push for more support for Sudan amid ongoing conflict, rising malnutrition and a cholera outbreak, a senior UN aid coordination official said on Thursday in New York.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
After 500 days of siege, the city of El Fasher in Sudanâs North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease and violence claiming young lives every day, the UN Childrenâs Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Israeli military offensive in Gaza City intensifies, the UN and partners continue to warn against the catastrophic consequences for civilians.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, Martha Pobee, briefed the Security Council on the deteriorating security and humanitarian conditions in South Sudan on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The preventable but often deadly waterborne disease â cholera â continues to spread around the world, driven by conflict and poverty, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
The cholera treatment centre at Tawila Hospital, officially equipped with 130 beds, had to accommodate 400 patients during the first week of August, forcing staff to add extra mattresses on the floor.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk has expressed outrage over Mondayâs deadly large-scale attack by the Rapid Support Forces militia on El Fasher, the capital of Sudanâs North Darfur state, which has been besieged by the RSF since April last year.
ReliefWeb News
Today, hundreds of thousands of people still trapped in El Fasher face starvation, as it remains cut off from WFP and other help. The hunger crisis comes one year after famine was first confirmed.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Help is needed urgently to halt a deadly cholera outbreak that is sweeping across Sudan, UN agencies said on Friday, while warning that communities continue to be terrorised by parties to the conflict even as they flee violence.
ReliefWeb News
UNHCR urgently calls for an immediate injection of funds to scale up life-saving health, hygiene, water, shelter and nutrition support to avoid a health catastrophe.
ReliefWeb News
With violence intensifying in South Sudan, more than 33,000 refugees have fled to northern DRC. In May, MSF launched an emergency intervention to provide lifesaving medical care.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is alarmed by escalating health and food crises across Sudan, notably as cholera cases continue to rise in the locality of Tawila, North Darfur state.
ReliefWeb News
The ongoing rainy season is slowing cholera response efforts in some locations, raising concerns about further transmission and undermining progress made so far in combating the outbreak.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
With pockets of relative safety emerging in Sudan, over 1.3 million Sudanese people, including one million who were internally displaced and over 300,000 refugees, have returned home, according to UN agencies.
ReliefWeb News
Pockets of relative safety have emerged and to date over a million IDPs have gone home - mainly to Khartoum, Sennar and Al Jazirah states, where the impact of more than two years of war is immense.