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Sudan’s Darfur spiralling into ‘humanitarian calamity’: UN aid chief

·June 16, 2023·1 min read

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths warned in a statement issued late on Thursday night that conditions in the province were particularly dire: babies dying in hospitals, children and mothers suffering from severe malnutrition, camps for displaced persons burned down and sexual violence on the rise. He deplored spreading inter-communal...

Nearly 14 million children in Sudan need humanitarian support: UNICEF

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·August 7, 2023·4 min read

Ted Chaiban of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and Edem Wosornu with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on their recent mission to the country and Chad, one of several neighbouring nations hosting some 900,000 people who fled the violence. Fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary...

Explainer: How Darfur became a ‘humanitarian calamity and catastrophic human rights crisis’

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·December 15, 2023·6 min read

Close to nine million people need humanitarian assistance and reports suggest that some 4,000 people have been targeted and killed because of their ethnicity. There are now concerns that Darfur is returning to the years of brutal fighting and increasing atrocities last witnessed two decades ago that left some 300,000...

Syria: Needs rise amid deepening humanitarian and economic crisis

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·December 24, 2022·2 min read

Ambassadors were briefed by the UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen and UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, who stressed the need to give Syrians hope. Some 14.6 million people require support – a 1.2 million increase over 2021 – and the number is expected to reach 15.3 million next year....

Gaza: UN envoy condemns deadly strike on camp in humanitarian zone

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·September 10, 2024·2 min read

Thousands of displaced Palestinians were staying in the camp in Khan Younis, and at least 19 people were killed, according to latest media reports. ‘Nowhere is safe in Gaza’ “While the IDF said it struck Hamas militants who were operating in a command-and-control centre embedded inside the Humanitarian zone, I...

Humanitarian ceasefires critical to meet immense needs in Gaza

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·November 4, 2023·8 min read

Their humanitarian update opened with a moment of silence for all those who have lost their lives since the start of the conflict on 7 October, and for the 240 Israeli men, women and children still being held hostage by Hamas. “What we’ve seen unfold over the last 26 days...

Vessel to collect first humanitarian wheat shipment under Ukraine grain deal |

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·August 13, 2022·2 min read

This will be the first shipment of humanitarian food assistance under the Black Sea Grain Initiative signed last month by Ukraine, Russia and Türkiye. WFP said the development marks “another important step in efforts to reintegrate Ukrainian food into global markets and get it to countries worst affected by the...

Haiti: ‘Very critical situation on the ground,’ warns Humanitarian Coordinator

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·November 20, 2024·2 min read

She updated journalists in New York on Wednesday on the worsening situation in Haiti, which has deteriorated dramatically since the installation of a new Prime Minister on 11 November. The verified toll of gang violence this year has reached more than 4,000 dead, though the actual numbers are likely higher,...

UN delivers more aid into Gaza on first day of humanitarian pause

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·November 25, 2023·1 min read

Gaza has a population of over two million, with the UN agency that assists Palestine refugee, UNRWA, hosting more than a million displaced people in 156 of its installations across the enclave. The UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, said on Friday that 200 trucks were dispatched from Nitzana, a town...

Gaza crisis: General Assembly adopts resolution calling for ‘humanitarian truce’, civilian protection

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·October 28, 2023·1 min read

The resolution breaks the deadlock at the UN over a response to the Israel-Palestine crisis which erupted on 7 October, where Member States on the Security Council have failed to reach agreement on four draft resolutions. Click here for our coverage of the Assembly’s Emergency Special Session on the crisis....

UN coordinator calls for urgent ‘humanitarian pauses’ in Sudan, as death toll mounts

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·April 21, 2023·3 min read

“I am horrified by the toll the clashes are having on civilians”, said Abdou Dieng. “At least 331 people have been killed nationwide, including five aid workers, and nearly 3,200 have been injured.” The fighting between troops from the national army and a powerful rival militia known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

Gaza: ‘Unfolding catastrophe’ makes humanitarian ceasefire more urgent

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·November 6, 2023·3 min read

“The nightmare in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis. It is a crisis of humanity,” he said, speaking to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. He also voiced ongoing grave concern over rising violence and an expansion of the conflict between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, stating that...