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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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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/15/2023 10:10:21 AM
Civilian death toll has climbed to 958 in the armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) across the country, the Sudanese Doctors' Union said late on Wednesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/7/2023 8:05:00 AM
The UN warned Tuesday that the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine could spark an environmental disaster and have dire humanitarian consequences for hundreds of thousands of people.
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World
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Region
5/20/2023 1:35:49 PM
The Israeli occupation authorities have demolished, confiscated, or forced people to demolish 42 structures in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, including 17 homes, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in the occupied Palestinian territory,.
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World
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International
5/14/2023 10:06:55 AM
Voters in Thailand were heading to the polls on Sunday in an election touted as a pivotal chance for change, eight years after incumbent Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha first came to power in a 2014 coup. He is now running against the daughter of the politician who is the military's top nemesis.
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World
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Region
4/12/2023 11:04:18 PM
Clashes between Arab and non-Arab groups in Sudan's Darfur region have left at least 24 people dead, dozens of homes burned, and thousands displaced, an official said on Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
4/4/2023 10:21:45 PM
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has appealed for urgent funding to respond to growing humanitarian calamities in drought and conflict-affected parts of Ethiopia.
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World
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Africa
4/3/2023 7:14:05 PM
Flash floods caused by heavy rains killed at least 21 people, displaced over 100,000 more and destroyed property in the past two weeks in southern Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Monday.
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World
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Region
1/25/2023 8:52:53 PM
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said the funds are required to help 17.3 million most vulnerable people in Yemen.
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World
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Africa
12/25/2022 10:58:05 AM
Few in the giant displacement camps north of Goma, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, are enjoying the feasting and festivities they usually reserve for Christmas.
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World
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Africa
12/7/2022 6:27:38 PM
Violence in South Sudan's far north has forced thousands of civilians to flee in recent weeks, UN agencies said Wednesday, adding some were hiding in swamps and eating shrubs to survive.
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World
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Region
10/17/2022 10:50:04 PM
The death toll from ethnic clashes sparked by "land issues" in the latest unrest in Sudan's south has climbed to 13, the United Nations said Monday, warning the situation remained "tense".
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:48:37 PM
Around 909,000 people have reportedly been affected by flooding in South Sudan, the UN's emergency response agency said Tuesday, more than doubling estimates released last month as torrential rains ravage crops and destroy homes.
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World
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Africa
10/11/2022 9:05:16 PM
The United Nations said Tuesday that renewed clashes between armed tribal militias in South Sudan's Upper Nile State have displaced 8,000 civilians.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/10/2022 2:18:44 PM
Heatwaves will become so extreme in certain regions of the world within decades that human life there will be unsustainable, the United Nations and the Red Cross said Monday.
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World
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International
8/24/2022 12:52:35 PM
Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha from his duties on Wednesday while it decides whether the man who led a military coup in 2014 has violated the country's term limits.
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World
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Region
6/15/2022 8:27:47 PM
The Lebanon Humanitarian Fund (LHF) has allocated 16 million U.S. dollars to expand the humanitarian response in Lebanon, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), operator of the fund, said on Wednesday.
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