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War in Sudan
8/6/2024 9:40:04 PM
The famine in a displaced persons camp in war-torn Sudan is a "shameful stain" on the conscience of the international community, which failed to prevent it despite multiple warnings, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/2/2024 11:20:04 PM
More than 55,000 people have fled Sinja, the capital of Sennar state in southeastern Sudan, as fighting rages between paramilitary forces and the regular army, the UN humanitarian office OCHA has said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/4/2024 9:17:07 PM
Some Gaza residents are now reduced to drinking sewage water and eating animal feed, the WHO's regional chief said Tuesday, pleading for increased aid access immediately to the besieged territory.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/31/2024 6:14:34 PM
The humanitarian aid allowed into the Gaza Strip is not getting to civilians in need, the United Nations said Friday, urging Israel to fulfil its legal obligations.
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World
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War in Sudan
5/17/2024 1:14:22 PM
The United Nations warned on Friday that it had only received 12 per cent of the $2.7 billion being sought for war-wracked Sudan, adding that "famine is closing in".
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World
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Region
5/13/2024 8:08:33 PM
The United Nations on Monday expressed fears at what it called a "rapidly worsening" outbreak of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen, with more than 40,000 suspected cases since October, mainly in areas controlled by Houthi rebels.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/12/2024 8:50:02 PM
A conference of international donors in Kuwait pledged over $2 billion in aid to Gaza Sunday as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an "immediate" ceasefire in the Israeli war on Gaza.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/7/2024 1:35:39 PM
The United Nations has had its access to the closed Rafah crossing into southern Gaza denied by the Israeli authorities, a spokesman for the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA said Tuesday.
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World
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Africa
3/6/2024 8:25:10 PM
Two days of fighting during which rebels captured a town in eastern DR Congo saw "more than 100,000" people flee their homes, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
2/27/2024 6:04:06 PM
Israeli forces are "systematically" blocking access to people in Gaza, complicating the task of delivering aid in what has become a lawless war zone, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
1/24/2024 10:28:00 PM
Israel kept up its heavy assault on the "encircled" Gazan city of Khan Younis, as the UN humanitarian agency OCHA reported that Israeli forces had issued fresh evacuation orders for a section of Khan Younis housing an estimated half a million residents and displaced people.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/20/2024 5:04:42 PM
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry discussed on Saturday with his Italian and Norwegian counterparts the dire humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip and the ongoing efforts to de-escalate the situation and contain regional conflict expansion.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/5/2023 11:03:01 PM
At least 25 people were killed Tuesday in a strike that hit a southern Gaza school sheltering Palestinians displaced by war, the Palestinian health ministry said.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/14/2023 12:38:42 PM
Israeli ground invasion in northern Gaza forced another 200,000 Palestinians to flee south in the past 10 days, the U.N. humanitarian office said Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/3/2023 12:36:40 PM
The United Nations launched Friday an emergency aid appeal seeking $1.2 billion to help some 2.7 million people in Gaza and the West Bank.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/29/2023 4:18:00 PM
Israeli settlers, backed by army and police forces, expelled the 200 residents of the Bedouin village of Wadi Al-Seeq in the occupied West Bank, forcing them to flee on foot with their sheep and goats.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/23/2023 10:51:08 PM
"Hello from Gaza -- I'm still alive": it's a message many Palestinians trapped in the besieged and bombarded territory send each morning to their loved ones outside the coastal enclave.
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World
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Africa
9/25/2023 9:49:53 PM
The UN slammed Monday a deadly attack over the weekend on aid trucks delivering assistance in southern South Sudan, prompting a suspension of aid deliveries in the area.
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World
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Africa
8/16/2023 10:57:59 PM
The United Nations warned Wednesday that the ongoing crisis in Niger could significantly worsen food insecurity in the impoverished country, urging humanitarian exemptions to sanctions and border closures to avert catastrophe.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2023 6:59:54 PM
The number of people diagnosed with severe malnutrition in Ethiopia's war-scarred Tigray region has increased sharply, with conditions set to worsen following a recent halt to food aid, the United Nations said in its latest update.
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