With the release of the latest food security report from the Integrated Phase Classification (IPC) on war-ravaged Gaza since December, World Food Prog...

The DRC is currently facing one of the most acute humanitarian emergencies in the world, with food insecurity on the rise and 5.9 million Congolese cu...

The race for food is not limited to men. Women are forced to take this risk, driven by the responsibilities of motherhood and the needs of their child...

OCHA said the wider occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) would feel the effect, with 18 Palestinian Bedouin communities put at a higher risk of displa...

In this regard, he emphasised the need to accelerate progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through investment, reform and partn...

Since August 8, the office has recorded 54 attacks on residential buildings and entire blocks in Gaza City, killing 87 Palestinians, including at leas...

But wherever it happens, this sort of punishment has wide-ranging effects, including increased risk of anxiety and depression in addition to reduced c...

Al-Kheetan insisted that in the past few weeks, Israeli authorities have only allowed aid to enter in quantities that remain “far below what would be...

The Mission also urged “the Congolese authorities to conduct thorough investigations to identify those responsible for the massacre of civilians and b...

Women and girls face the brunt of this crisis. Gender-based violence (GBV) such as gang rape is rampant, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, a...

Furthermore, the displacement crisis is a two-way street, Murtiga explained: the devastating civil war in neighbouring Sudan has driven 1.2 million re...

Over 83 per cent of people with disabilities in Gaza do not have the assistive devices they need, including wheelchairs, hearing aids and other tools....

A key factor in Eman and Noora’s successful journey was the support of Kaaf Humanitarian, which provided them with financial backing, packaging materi...

And if you ask O’Neill what is creating conditions akin to the Wild West, the answer is desperation. With over 1.3 million Haitians displaced and half...

Between May 27 and August 8, the Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah treated more than 4,500 wounded patients – most reporting injuries sustained while...

Between January and June, the RSF, which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two years, has attacked the...

Haiti is currently facing a protracted and worsening humanitarian crisis, with gang violence expanding beyond the capital of Port-au-Prince. Civilians...

The children’s ward at Nasser was full of malnourished patients, she added, and even injured adults were “extremely frail, extremely thin and very, ve...

There are now over 200 GPAS located throughout Haiti, which cultivate high-quality seeds to distribute to other farmers with the goal of increasing fa...

Thousands have died and much of Gaza has been laid to waste, but life must continue, according to the correspondent, who is remaining anonymous for se...

The cholera outbreak is unfolding against a backdrop of deepening catastrophe. Since the war between rival militaries erupted in April 2023, critical...

Prices of food items such as sorghum and wheat are more than four times higher than elsewhere in the country, while many families are unable to afford...

In 2023, Kenya-based pharmaceutical company Universal Corporation Ltd became the first African manufacturer to receive World Health Organisation (WHO)...

As one in three people currently go days without food, OCHA reiterated that no one should ever be forced to risk their life to get something to eat.

As many gangs expand their territory, they have committed human rights violations, according to the UN, including extrajudicial killings, child exploi...

Multiple political, security and socioeconomic crises have led to 5.7 million people suffering from a lack of food and have forced 1.3 million people...

In the Tawila locality of North Darfur, humanitarian organisations have had to strengthen their responses to rising cholera cases. They have expanded...

One in three people “hasn’t eaten for days”, insisted Tom Fletcher, UN Emergency Relief Chief and head of OCHA. “People are being shot just trying to...

Thousands of people were killed in the violence that swept CAR following a 2012 coup led by the mainly Muslim rebel coalition, Séléka.

This includes the obligation under the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

Nearly 1.3 million people in the Caribbean country have fled their homes, with an additional 15,000 uprooted last week after armed attacks in the comm...

On Monday, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that a quarter of Gaza’s population faces famine-like conditions. Almost 100,000 women and children...

In a special address at UN Headquarters in New York, Guterres cited surging clean energy investment and plunging solar and wind costs that now outcomp...

He said the Secretary-General deplored the growing reports of both children and adults suffering from malnutrition and strongly condemned the ongoing...

The WMO is stepping up efforts to improve flood forecasting through its global initiative and real-time guidance platform, now used in over 70 countri...

Many have been forced to flee the fighting dozens of times. Most find themselves homeless and hungry while facing an uncertain future.

The remaining 201 victims were killed while seeking food “on the routes of aid convoys or near aid convoys” run by the UN or UN-partners still operati...

Since April 2023, an estimated 780,000 people have been displaced from El Fasher town and the nearby Zamzam displacement camps, including nearly 500,0...

On just one day this week, nearly 30,000 people were forced to flee under new Israeli relocation orders, with no safe place to go and clearly inadequa...

Since January, the UN Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH), recorded over 4,000 individuals deliberately killed – a 24 per cent increase compared to the...

WFP noted that the situation for many Sudanese refugees is already dire, more than two years since war erupted between Sudan’s national army and param...

Fordow is one of several nuclear-related sites across Iran that are known to have been damaged in the strikes by the United States, including those in...

The mass casualty event left “hundreds of casualties, completely overwhelming Nasser Medical Complex” in Khan Younis, said WHO’s Representative in the...

Restoring connectivity is urgent. OCHA said the Israeli military recently posted a warning on social media where areas marked in red on a map are cons...

Overnight from Thursday into Friday, Israeli military strikes targeted nuclear facilities across Iran, including the Natanz enrichment site. Media rep...

The resolution was backed by 149 Member States, with 12 voting against and 19 abstaining. Among those opposing the resolution were the United States a...

Nothing encapsulates the despair more than Zeenat’s final plea: “Let the war end. Give us a break. Otherwise, let all countries come together and drop...

Laerke explained that out of nearly 900 aid trucks that were approved to enter from the Israeli side since the reopening of the Kerem Shalom border cr...

At least 358 were killed because of attacks targeting houses and tents for displaced people, with children and women comprising at least 148 of the vi...

Meanwhile, tech companies have a crucial role. In this regard, Turk announced that his Office and UN educational and cultural agency UNESCO are offeri...