News Monitor
Goma has gradually been surrounded by several front-lines, with between 600,000 and one million people displaced people being crammed alongside the cityâs two million residents, says MSF.
âOnce again, the world seems to be failing a desperate people in their hour of peril while a hate-driven unnatural disaster unfolds in real time in Myanmarâs Rakhine State,â said Tom Andrews.
Poverty in Lebanon has more than tripled over the past decade, reaching 44 per cent of the total population, according to a new World Bank report released today.
About 26 million children will be locked out of class for a week in ongoing heat wave, as Pakistan becomes the latest country to shut down education due to climate extremes, Save the Children said.
Greater international assistance is urgently needed to equip and assist clearance personnel to systematically survey and clear mines and explosive remnants of war from Yemen.
WHO finds rising temperatures and changing weather patterns are altering disease spread, potentially reversing health progress. Urgent action needed to protect vulnerable communities.
Six out of 10 hospitals in Haiti are barely operational as recent escalating violence in Port-Au-Prince has continued to deprive children of critical health supplies and medicine, UNICEF warned.
Report lists 2,562 incidents of violence against or obstruction of healthcare in conflicts in 2023 - a 25% increase from 2022 or 500 more attacks than documented in 2022, and the highest ever.
Lack of clean water and sanitation has increased acute watery diarrhea among under-fives, while other water-borne diseases such as Hepatitis are proliferating among those who cannot get clean water.
Devastating floods in north-eastern and north-western regions of Afghanistan over the past two weeks, hitting more than 80,000 people, are likely to worsen already critical levels of food insecurity.
In the past week, more than 10,300 people were evacuated from their villages in Kharkiv regionâs border areas. The majority, who left with only a few belongings, are already highly vulnerable.
The Southern Africa Development Community is seeking $5.5 billion to assist more than 56.6 million people with urgent multi-sector humanitarian assistance across the region.
At least 810,000 people have fled Rafah in just two weeks, UN humanitarians said on Monday, amid reports of ongoing Israeli military operations in the southern city and in the north of Gaza.
Extreme weather poses a serious risk to all children in Afghanistan whose families or communities rely on farming to survive. This equates to nearly 13.2 million children, says Save the Children.
At least 58 civilians are reported to have been killed and 213 others injured in El-Fasher since fighting dramatically escalated in the North Darfur town last week.
Uganda hosts the most refugees and asylum-seekers in Africa, with almost 1.7 million people mainly from South Sudan and DRC, yet it was among UNHCRâs 13 top underfunded operations in 2023.