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Displacements in the Caribbean country have reached record levels, with nearly 600,000 people forced to leave their homes this year - double the number from last year.
The agency’s Eastern Mediterranean Region reported the highest number of cases, followed by the African Region
The war that erupted last April between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has triggered political instability, a severe humanitarian emergency and widespr...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also reiterated serious concerns raised by his Office that war crimes have been committed by all sides since the conflict erupted on October 7.
The RSF and the Sudanese Army have been battling for more than a year, and fighting in El Fasher has been escalating in recent months.
WFP is also pre-positioning food at key border crossings and along supply routes because the imminent rainy season will make roads in the Darfurs and Kordofans impassable.
At an informal dialogue with Assembly members in May, then-candidate Yang, highlighted his theme for the 79th session as “unity in diversity, for the advancement of peace, sustainable development, and...
On Saturday, Israeli forces shot dead 16-year-old Ahmed Ashraf Hamidat and critically wounded 17-year-old Mohammed Musa Al Bitar near Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, Jericho. Mohammed Musa died the followi...
From May 7 to May 20, not a single WFP truck crossed from the southern corridors from Egypt into Rafah.
Echoing those concerns, OCHA highlighted the risk of deadly malnutrition and famine among Gaza’s most vulnerable individuals.
Echoing those concerns, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned that there was little the agency "can currently do in Rafah, with stocks very low and mobility severely restricted”.
The top UN aid official in the country stressed that all parties must avoid using explosive weapons in populated areas and take all feasible precautions to protect civilians and civilian infrastructur...
The floating dock was anchored to a beach in Gaza the previous day. With most border crossings to the enclave closed or unsafe, it will provide an additional path for aid delivery to the embattled enc...
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, warned that “time is running out” as famine, disease and fighting close in on the population “and there’s no end in sight”...
Fowler underlined UNRWA’s mandate to provide services to Palestine refugees, which includes healthcare, education and social support.
Speaking at a press conference in Nairobi, he warned that “the fate of Palestinians and the entire region hangs in the balance.”
Due to the ongoing conflict, South Sudan’s oil production and exportation, which relies on transit through Sudan, has been suspended since early February.
The report found that journalists and news outlets reporting on environmental issues dealt with about 750 attacks in the past 15 years, the Secretary-General said.
The pop-up clinic receives around 2,000 individuals daily and offers services ranging from chronic disease care, maternal and child health care, dental services and psychological counselling.
The development follows the recovery of hundreds of bodies “buried deep in the ground and covered with waste” over the weekend at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
British PM Sunak promised on Monday to start sending asylum seekers to Rwanda within 10 to 12 weeks as the upper house of parliament finally passed the required legislation, delayed for weeks by attem...
Sudan has experienced the almost complete destruction of its urban middle class: architects, doctors, teachers, nurses, engineers, and students have lost everything.
The UN agency reported on Friday that 37 trucks carrying 1,300 tons of supplies crossed last week into West Darfur from Adre in Chad
The fresh ICJ order also calls on Israel, as a signatory to the Genocide Convention, to undertake those measures, “including by increasing the capacity and number of land crossing points."
Nearly 4,400 cases and 54 deaths had been recorded in nearly half of all districts in Somalia since the beginning of the year.
Intense hostilities in Gaza continued on Tuesday between Hamas and Israeli forces with a “double-digit number of children killed overnight”.
Wennesland also emphasized the importance of upholding the status quo at Holy Sites in Jerusalem, particularly during Ramadan.
To reach the north from the south, aid teams have to pass through Israeli military checkpoints that cut the Strip in two.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said Palestinians in Gaza are enduring horrifying levels of hunger and suffering.
Efforts are being made in the south of Madagascar to end a traditional but illegal practice in which girls are promised as a wife to older men, sometimes even before they are born.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said institutional discrimination and other barriers are violating the human rights and dignity of Muslims.
The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, condemned the refusal to allow so-called “dual-use” items destined for the enclave.
Haitians say they need assistance through the proposed Kenyan-led multinational security support mission authorised by the UN Security Council to back up the national police.
Its new session which began on Monday is the longest ever, running until April, and promises a packed agenda, with ongoing wars in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine.
The principals underscored that no amount of humanitarian response will make up for the months of deprivation that families in Gaza have endured.
So far, emergency response rooms have reached more than four million civilians, bucking bureaucracy and finding innovative solutions.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Raisedon Zenenga of Zimbabwe as his new Deputy Special Representative in UNSOM.
Guterres called for reform of the UN Security Council, saying it is paralysed by geopolitical divisions while its composition does not reflect the reality of today’s world.
The ICJ is the only international court that settles disputes between the 193 UN Member States.
The development followed a new evacuation order issued by the Israeli Defense Forces impacting people living in Gaza’s middle area.
Kaag will facilitate, coordinate, monitor and verify aid consignments to the embittered enclave, in line with a recent Security Council resolution.