News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 5 from 14)
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.
ReliefWeb News
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.