News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 3)
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some 3.7 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from wasting, one of the most dangerous forms of malnutrition, with around one million currently battling the most severe, life-threatening form of the condition.
ReliefWeb News
"Across Afghanistan, 3.7 million children are currently suffering from wasting â they are acutely malnourished, including about one million with life-threatening severe acute malnutrition."
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Five years since the Taliban seized power in Kabul, life for some Afghans has improved while many others suffer growing hardship.
ReliefWeb News
Levels of wasting in children worsened in two-thirds of provinces in the second quarter of 2026, compared to the same period last year, with current cases driven by increases in infectious diseases.
ReliefWeb News
More than 10.7 million women and girls require assistance. Deteriorating health outcomes, food insecurity, and shrinking access to services delivered by female professionals are deepening the crisis.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Afghanistanâs dire hunger crisis now affects 14 million people including babies fed on little more than weak tea and bread by their despairing and impoverished parents.
ReliefWeb News
WFPâs warning follows the release of an alert highlighting that malnutrition is at critical levels in a third of Afghanistanâs provinces - a record - and projected to continue to rise through October.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Flash floods have killed at least 26 people across eastern Afghanistan, including 23 in the mountainous province of Nuristan, where homes, markets and roads were swept away and search teams continued looking for people reported missing.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Some 3.7 million children under five in Afghanistan are at heightened risk of malnutrition due to food insecurity, poor diets and inadequate access to basic services as the peak season for life-threatening wasting looms.
ReliefWeb News
Since 2023, more than six million Afghans have returned to the country. More than 750,000 people have already returned so far this year, with a further 2.5 million expected by the end of 2026.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Afghanistan faces one of the worldâs biggest displacement crises amid poverty, drought and earthquakes, UN agencies warned on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Imagine being one of a family of nine and sitting down to a meal of potato peelings and other scraps, boiled up into a soup. This is the harsh reality for many of Afghanistanâs most vulnerable families, forced on them by climate change and drought, widespread malnutrition and increasing restrictions on women, since the Taliban overran Kabul in 2021.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As the Security Council met on Afghanistan, senior officials and civil society representatives delivered a clear warning Monday: despite relative security under the Taliban, worsening humanitarian conditions, restrictions on women and growing economic pressures are creating a fragile and uncertain future.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
What began as a geopolitical crisis in the Middle East nearly 100 days ago is increasingly becoming a food security crisis elsewhere, with UN agencies warning of rising hunger in Africa and malnourished children being turned away from medical clinics in Afghanistan.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Families in Gaza living on or near the so-called Yellow Line controlled by the Israeli military have told the UN they live in constant fear of being killed or injured.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN human rights chief Volker TĂŒrk on Monday praised Mongoliaâs recent human rights progress during a visit to the country, which recently adopted the regionâs first law protecting human rights defenders.
ReliefWeb News
Nearly two-thirds of families in provinces impacted by severe drought have reported increased child labour, with only about one in five children attending school, according to Save the Children.
ReliefWeb News
This year, about 110,000 Afghans have returned from Iran, with roughly 1,700 each day since the onset of the conflict. We remain concerned developments in the region could trigger larger movements.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The escalating violence in the Middle East region is compounding an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
ReliefWeb News
"As the winter season lingers on, more families will be on the doorstep of starvation and yet the humanitarian response in Afghanistan remains gravely under-funded," said IRC's Lisa Owen.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Afghanistan is expected to remain one of the worldâs largest humanitarian crises in 2026, UN agencies and humanitarian partners warned on Tuesday, launching a $1.7 billion appeal to assist nearly 18 million people in urgent need.
ReliefWeb News
Over 17 million Afghans are facing acute food insecurity this winter, as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations World Food Programme.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Afghanistanâs worsening humanitarian crisis is being driven by the accelerating erosion of fundamental rights â especially for women and girls â alongside mass displacement, economic decline and shrinking aid, senior UN officials warned on Wednesday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
UN teams rushed to northern Afghanistan on Monday after a powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck overnight, just two months after a massive quake devastated the east of the country. Details are still emerging from the latest emergency where initial reports indicate at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds injured.
ReliefWeb News
Another massive earthquake in Afghanistan forced children to flee their homes in the middle of the night and caused at least 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries, said Save the Children.
ReliefWeb News
UNICEF estimates that 132 water sources have been destroyed, leaving families without access to safe water and handwashing facilities. The conditions are ripe for outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea.
ReliefWeb News
The IFRC is running operations to support families returning from Pakistan and Iran, while also addressing malnutrition and the impacts of flooding. These overlapping emergencies stretch resources.
ReliefWeb News
An estimated 11,000 women in the earthquake-affected areas are currently pregnant and could give birth in tents in coming months, where temperatures regularly fall below freezing in winter.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Women and girls still reeling from Afghanistan's deadly earthquake face even greater suffering rebuilding their lives and livelihoods â with little help to hand, gender equality agency UN Women said on Friday.
ReliefWeb News
Satellite-based analysis by UNDP indicates that more than 649,000 tonnes of debris must be cleared, while at least 23,000 people may have been forced from their homes.