News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 5 from 15)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
To Sudan, where the people of government held El Fasher in the west of the war-torn country remain trapped without food, water or medical care, UN aid coordinators, OCHA, said on Monday.
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Armed clashes are occurring on a scale not seen since a cessation of hostilities was signed in 2017, with civilians bearing the brunt of human rights violations and displacements.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 20 civilians were reportedly killed this week in attacks targeting a mosque and the last hospital in El Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur state in Sudan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UNâs top humanitarian official in Sudan has warned of an impending catastrophe in Darfur, with civilians facing relentless violence, sexual abuse and starvation.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
World leaders have thrown their weight behind the first-ever United Nations global political declaration tackling noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health together.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Amid the devastating war in Sudan, UN aid teams are overcoming major obstacles to curb a cholera outbreak claiming lives across the country, with young children particularly at risk.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 75 people have been killed, according to news reports, in a drone strike on a mosque during morning prayers in El Fasher city, in the west of the war-torn country.
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
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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.
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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.
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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 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.