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Aid access and hospital operations remain constrained in Gaza

·November 27, 2025·1 min read

Briefing reporters in New York on Wednesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said hostilities in parts of the Gaza Strip are still resulting in casualties and repeated disruptions to humanitarian operations. On Tuesday, the UN and its partners coordinated eight planned humanitarian movements inside Gaza with Israeli authorities. Of those, only...

Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher

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·November 14, 2025·3 min read

That ordeal reduced people to eating peanut shells and animal feed, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday, before condemning the reported mass killings of civilians, executions based on ethnicity and other atrocities, which are likely continuing. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Mr. Türk told Member...

Israel has rejected over 100 aid requests since Gaza ceasefire, UN says

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·November 9, 2025·1 min read

“Our partners report that since the ceasefire, the Israeli authorities have rejected 107 requests for the entry of relief materials, including blankets, winter clothes, and tools and material to maintain and operate water, sanitation and hygiene services,” Deputy UN Spokesperson Farhan Haq told journalists in New York. He said almost...

DR Congo hunger crisis worsening amid fighting and lack of aid funding

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·November 8, 2025·2 min read

UN aid agencies are struggling to access provinces overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebel fighters at the start of the year, although dramatic funding shortfalls for humanitarian work have also contributed to the dire situation. Kigali has consistently denied providing military backing to the group. Help could be provided more easily...

Gaza: Aid teams race to push back hunger; one million food parcels delivered

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·November 5, 2025·2 min read

Last month, hundreds of thousands of people returned to northern Gaza – where famine was declared at the end of August – but their access to food is “severely limited”, said Abeer Etefa, Senior Spokesperson at the World Food Programme (WFP). And while many returnees have found their homes in...

UN aid push continues across Gaza despite Israeli airstrikes

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·November 2, 2025·2 min read

“Our humanitarian colleagues tell us that their partners continue their scale-up efforts, despite reported Israeli airstrikes across the Strip,” he said, noting that some strikes hit areas near the so-called ‘Yellow Line’ – a buffer zone marked by the Israeli military inside Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement. “We...

Aid cuts shutdown or suspend one in three women’s anti-violence programmes

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·October 27, 2025·1 min read

A new UN Women report, At Risk and Underfunded, based on a global survey of 428 women’s rights and civil society groups, finds that one in three have suspended or shut down programmes aimed at ending gender-based violence. More than 40 per cent have scaled back or closed essential services...

Security Council LIVE: Gaza ceasefire, aid crisis dominates agenda as ambassadors meet on the Middle East

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·October 23, 2025·1 min read

The UN Security Council is meeting in New York to debate the Middle East. The session comes amid faltering progress on the fragile Gaza ceasefire and mounting humanitarian needs after two years of war, with famine still looming in parts of the territory. Ambassadors will likely discuss yesterday’s ICJ advisory...

Four winters on, UN in Ukraine continues to deliver aid under fire

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·October 23, 2025·2 min read

From providing emergency care and evacuation support, to repairing bombed energy plants, UN humanitarian workers are delivering despite reduced resources, an expanding frontline and direct attacks on their colleagues. The widespread use of drones and glide bombs in the Ukraine war means that a large swath of the country is...

‘Overwhelming’ demand for food aid in Gaza as fragile ceasefire holds

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·October 21, 2025·2 min read

Abeer Etefa, Senior Regional Communications Officer for the World Food Programme (WFP) told reporters in Geneva on Tuesday that since the ceasefire took hold on 11 October the agency has been able to bring in over 6,700 metric tonnes of food – enough for close to half a million people...

World News in Brief: Sudan aid update, Kyrgyzstan death penalty, health crises in DRC, Haiti

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·October 20, 2025·3 min read

The warning from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, follows ongoing and repeated attacks on El Fasher, which is under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Ten days ago, the Darfuri city’s Daraja Oula neighbourhood was targeted in a drone strike, killing at least 57 civilians who’d been displaced...

Ukraine: Top humanitarian strongly condemns Russian attack on UN aid convoy

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·October 15, 2025·1 min read

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Matthias Schmale, strongly condemned the attack. “Today, an inter-agency convoy of four humanitarian trucks, clearly marked as belonging to the UN, carrying aid, came under attack by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation when delivering aid to Bilozerka Town in the Kherson...