Ocha Stories
Following two years of deadly conflict, a “catch-up” campaign to immunise some 44,000 children under the age of three against measles, mumps and other...
Aid continues to enter Gaza, with more than 300 truckloads of supplies collected from the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing between Friday...
OCHA said the flooding is compounding an already dire humanitarian situation in the country, which faces ongoing conflict and acute food insecurity.
At the same time, UN partners monitoring population flows across Gaza have reported more than 425,000 movements from southern to northern parts of the...
Save the Children has reported a rise in waterborne diseases and an increase in snake bite cases, which are escalating public health concerns.
Among many reported attacks in the last week, on 19 September, a four-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl were killed and others injured when their...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that in just the past five days, 11 emergency shelters for about 11,000 people...
The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democrati...
Local media reports show that River Nile State was among the worst-hit areas, with entire villages submerged, dozens of homes destroyed, and widesprea...
Across the Gaza Strip today, the WHO said that more than half a million people are trapped in famine, with destruction to food and health services, an...
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two years, has cut off all sup...
Her visit highlighted the critical importance of resilience, collective effort, and long-term solutions for communities affected by conflict and clima...
OCHA said the wider occupied Palestinian territory (OPT) would feel the effect, with 18 Palestinian Bedouin communities put at a higher risk of displa...
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...
Most returns have taken place in the volatile east, with over two million people going back to their villages in North Kivu province and more than 600...
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that the latest wave of violence has heavily impacted Chiúre, Ancuabe, and Muidumbe...
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.
In the Tawila locality of North Darfur, humanitarian organisations have had to strengthen their responses to rising cholera cases. They have expanded...
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...
A recent IPC alert cautioned that food security will likely deteriorate further between July and October, during the lean season, particularly in conf...
The report attributed the crisis to fighting, economic problems, rising food prices, disease outbreaks and extreme weather conditions including drough...
He said the Secretary-General deplored the growing reports of both children and adults suffering from malnutrition and strongly condemned the ongoing...
This latest crisis, the humanitarians said, comes as civilians in Gaza face deadly violence not only from the continuing hostilities but also, reporte...
The university, which endured one of Kenya’s deadliest terrorist attacks in April 2015 that claimed the lives of 147 students, launched the initiative...
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...
In its latest situation report, DG ECHO stated that the displacement was triggered by armed conflict “fuelled by political and ethnic divisions,” whic...
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...
The document, which says the plan is guaranteed by U.S. President Donald Trump and mediators Egypt and Qatar, includes sending humanitarian aid to Gaz...
One of the hardest-hit organisations is Save the Children, which plays a vital role in delivering health and nutrition services to children across the...
