News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 4 from 13)
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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.
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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.
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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 – 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.
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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 Israel’s decision to support a “one-week scale-up” 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.
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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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
South Sudan’s dramatic hunger crisis is worsening and millions of people there could miss out on food aid because of the global humanitarian funding crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan, the UN and partners have revised and scaled up a response plan to support more than 380,000 displaced people in Tawila, North Darfur state.
ReliefWeb News
Half the population – 7.7 million people – are facing severe hunger. Of these, 83,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger (IPC5) – the highest classification of food insecurity.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As tensions between Houthi rebels in Yemen and Israel escalate, the UN Secretary-General is “deeply concerned” about the renewed airstrikes on Hudaydah Port conducted by Israel this Monday, Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Major cuts to aid budgets have already left people fleeing wars in Sudan and beyond without the assistance and protection they need, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
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.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
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.
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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.