News Monitor
The latest humanitarian news headlines from around the world. (Page 1 from 4)
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UNFPA warns that only five of 27 emergency maternity hospitals are partially functioning, while 1,500 women are due to give birth within two weeks and protection services face widespread closures
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intensifying fighting in Yemen has cut off life-saving assistance to 800,000 people as shifting frontlines, blocked roads and growing insecurity severely restrict access to the city of Taiz and other conflict zones, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.
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WFP warns that wheat flour stocks in Taiz are nearly exhausted, while blocked roads and insecurity prevent deliveries. Funding shortages threaten further assistance cuts from November.
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WHO warns that overcrowding, unsafe water and disrupted healthcare expose displaced families to preventable diseases, while a US$26.7 million funding gap threatens the emergency response
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The Security Council met to discuss the crisis in Yemen Friday, where a Houthi offensive launched in September has sharply escalated the 12-year-long war for control of the country and spillover from the US-Iran war has provoked a new displacement crisis. Live coverage below and for full meetings updates, go here.
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MSF reports rising malnutrition and cholera risks among families fleeing renewed fighting, with many sheltering in schools and mosques and struggling to access healthcare.
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The WFP warned today that food insecurity is steeply increasing as escalating conflict forces families from their homes, disrupts markets and restricts humanitarian access.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Intense fighting in Yemen has forced more than 184,000 people from their homes since the start of August, most of them since early September, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Monday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Renewed conflict in Yemen has triggered a surge in hunger that could have consequences in the wider region and beyond, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Heavy fighting in Yemen is fuelling concerns of an uptick in cholera, measles and other preventable diseases, as overcrowding at displacement sites threatens to overwhelm the limited healthcare services still open.
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"Behind these figures are parents trying to keep their children safe, older people who cannot travel far, and families who had very little to begin with. They need help now," says IOM.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Aid agencies in Yemen highlighted the growing hunger emergency sparked by renewed fighting between Houthi opposition forces and Government troops, after mobile health clinics reported that hundreds of children displaced by the violence are suffering from the most deadly form of malnutrition.
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Even before the latest uptick in fighting, more than 2.2 million under-fives were projected to be acutely malnourished in 2026, with over half a million suffering from severe acute malnutrition.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
As hostilities worsen in Yemen, more people have been fleeing their homes, further intensifying the humanitarian crisis within the region, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
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Today's update from IOM's Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) shows that Ta'iz Governorate hosts the most displaced people, with 73,494. Lahj follows with 33,828, then Aden with 8,946.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN has condemned continued crossāborder attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the countryās fastest displacement surges in years.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
People displaced by the renewed fighting in Yemen have described fleeing for their lives amid shelling and gunfire, aid agencies reported on Friday, while highlighting the dramatic increase in humanitarian needs in the country and in Djibouti, where thousands have sought shelter.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Renewed fighting in Yemen is deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in a country where more than 12 million children depend on aid, after more than a decade of conflict.
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More than 104,000 people have been displaced in just two weeks. The fighting across western Taiz, southern Hudaydah, Marib and other affected areas is cutting children off from essential services.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The escalating conflict in Yemen is choking off aid shipments and driving fresh displacement, including to nearby Djibouti, with UN agencies reporting on Tuesday that nearly 100,000 people have been displaced since fighting intensified earlier this month.
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The latest wave follows the fall of Al Mokha. Families arriving in host areas report having had no time to grab their belongings, and many left their livestock and livelihoods behind.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
At least 46,000 people have been displaced since renewed fighting last week between Houthi rebels and pro-government forces in southwestern Yemen, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday.
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"Many of these are people who have already been displaced once, twice, even four times before. Every time fighting flares up, they lose whatever little they had managed to rebuild," said IOM.
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This year, MSF teams at Al-Salam Hospital admitted 1,296 children with severe acute malnutrition and medical complications, compared with 798 during the same period in 2025 ā a 62 per cent increase.
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The survey of 2,214 households, conducted across four districts in Aden, Lahj and Taiz governorates, found that about one in three children had never enrolled in school.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Thousands of people in some of Yemen's most conflict-affected communities are receiving lifesaving health care closer to home, thanks to funding from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) through the Yemen Humanitarian Fund.
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More than 53% of the population, which is 18 million people, are estimated to be experiencing severe food insecurity, including 2.2 million under-fives and 1.3 million pregnant and breastfeeding women.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
The UN's top humanitarian official has allocated $8 million in funding to help Burundi and South Sudan prepare for the potential spread of Ebola.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Nearly half of the population in Government-controlled areas of Yemen are facing high levels of acute food insecurity with the crisis set to deepen further if international aid cuts continue, according to the latest analysis by the leading UN-backed global food security platform.
UN News: Humanitarian Aid
Yemen must not be drawn into the escalating conflict in the Middle East, the Security Council heard on Tuesday, stressing the need for de-escalation, political progress and urgent humanitarian funding for beleaguered civilians battered by years of grinding war.