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Somalia declares drought emergency as millions face hunger after failed rains

·November 26, 2025·1 min read

On 10 November, the Federal Government of Somalia formally declared a drought emergency and appealed for urgent international assistance as conditions continued to deteriorate across northern, central and southern regions, according to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA. Puntland is among the worst affected areas, where authorities estimate that nearly...

Gaza women are ‘last line of protection’ for their families amid attacks, hunger and harsh winter

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·November 25, 2025·2 min read

UN Women’s Chief of Humanitarian Action Sofia Calltorp, who just returned from a visit to the enclave last week, said that women there repeatedly told her “there may be a cease-fire, but the war is not over”. “The attacks are fewer, but the killings continue,” she said. The UN aid...

Conflict and hunger ‘two faces of the same crisis’, UN deputy chief tells Security Council

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·November 18, 2025·3 min read

“This Council’s mandate is maintenance of international peace and security, and there can be neither peace where people are starving, nor security where hunger drives conflict,” she said. A recent UN report warned that the world’s most extreme food crises are driven primarily by armed conflict and violence, including famines...

Millions of lives at risk, warn UN food agencies, as hunger crisis worsens

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·November 12, 2025·2 min read

A report released by the two UN agencies on Tuesday identifies six that are at the highest risk of famine or catastrophic hunger: Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Mali, Haiti, and Yemen. In these areas, some communities are projected to reach famine or near-famine conditions.Other countries of very high concern include the...

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...

Humanitarian funding cuts pushing millions into hunger: WFP

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·October 16, 2025·2 min read

Programmes in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan are already facing major disruptions, which will only get worse. “Every ration cut means a child goes to bed hungry, a mother skips a meal, or a family loses the support they need to...

‘Wars, disasters, displacement, hunger’ continue to burden Myanmar

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·September 15, 2025·1 min read

Four years after the military coup which deposed the democratically elected government, Myanmar’s civil conflict grinds on, leaving millions displaced and without a home. “The suffering of millions of people across Myanmar is immense,” said UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi. “With aerial bombardments, destruction of property, and forced recruitment, they live...

Hunger and disease in Gaza will only worsen from ‘man-made’ famine: WHO

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·August 28, 2025·1 min read

In an online alert, the UN agency said that disease and hunger will only increase, unless all Israeli impediments to aid delivery at scale are removed and access is allowed across the Strip. The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, confirmed on Wednesday that some aid is allowed into the enclave...

Driven by hunger in Gaza, amputees are part of the collateral damage

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·August 26, 2025·3 min read

“I was going to buy falafel,” says Mohammed Hassan. “On the way home, I looked up and saw a rocket heading towards me. I tried to run, but it was too fast. I found myself pinned to the wall, and my foot had been blown off.” Brought to Al-Shifa Hospital...

Hunger and a heatwave plague the Gaza Strip

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·August 15, 2025·2 min read

Recently, Israel has denied fewer humanitarian movements but approved missions “still take hours to complete and teams have been compelled to wait on roads that are often dangerous, congested or impassable,” the UN aid coordination office OCHA said in its latest update. Between 6 and 12 August, humanitarians made 81...

‘Only hunger and bombs’ for besieged civilians in Sudan’s El Fasher

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·August 13, 2025·2 min read

At least 57 civilians were killed in the attack, which included the Abu Shouk displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, and UN human rights office, OHCHR, is also following up on allegations of summary executions there. “It is with dismay that we yet again witness an unimaginable...