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Downpours stymy aid teams following deadly landslide in war-torn Sudan

·September 5, 2025·1 min read

The death toll has not yet been verified as ongoing downpours and rugged terrain are making it extremely difficult to reach the impacted communities, according to the UN migration agency, IOM. To date, an estimated 150 people were displaced from Tarseen and neighbouring villages, with families now sheltering in nearby...

Afghanistan quake: Aid teams still scrambling to reach survivors

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·September 2, 2025·4 min read

The magnitude six quake has already left more than 800 dead and at least 2,000 injured, but the total impact could be in the “hundreds of thousands”, according to the UN’s top aid official in the country, Indrika Ratwatte. Speaking from Kabul, Mr. Ratwatte said that mud and wooden roof...

Gaza: As last fuel supplies run out, aid teams warn of catastrophe

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·June 19, 2025·2 min read

Speaking from Gaza City in the north of occupied territory, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that water pumps had stopped at one site for displaced people there on Wednesday “because there’s no fuel”. “We are really – unless the situation changes – hours away from...

DR Congo crisis: Aid teams appeal for support to help displaced communities left with nothing

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·June 13, 2025·1 min read

Since the beginning of the year, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters have swept across eastern DRC, taking key cities including Goma and Bukavu. The violence has displaced more than one million people in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. Speaking from the village of Sake in North Kivu, UNDP Resident Representative...

UN aid teams plead for access amid reports Gazans shot collecting food

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·May 28, 2025·2 min read

Unverified footage from Rafah where the privately-run but Israeli military-supported Gaza Humanitarian Foundation is based showed scenes of panic with crowds of people rushing in different directions, while others carried away boxes of supplies. The UN human rights office, OHCHR, said that it had received information that at least 47...

Aid teams highlight growing anxiety in Gaza after food is looted

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·May 23, 2025·1 min read

“Fifteen World Food Programme trucks were looted late last night in southern Gaza, while en route to WFP-supported bakeries,” the UN agency said. “These trucks were transporting critical food supplies for hungry populations waiting anxiously for assistance.” The development is a blow to continuing efforts to help Gaza’s most vulnerable...

All eyes on Gaza as aid teams retrieve first lifesaving relief in months

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·May 22, 2025·2 min read

“Today will be crucial. Truckloads of lifesaving aid finally on move again,” said top UN aid relief coordinator Tom Fletcher. Hours earlier and in a major development, 198 trucks entered Gaza via the Kerem Shalom crossing in the south of the enclave, carrying nutrition supplies, medicines and wheat flour. Announcing...

Myanmar earthquake latest: Entire communities flattened, aid teams say

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·April 1, 2025·2 min read

Speaking to journalists from Yangon on Tuesday, Julia Rees, Deputy Representative of the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the country described seeing massive needs rising by the hour, after a 7.7 magnitude quake. “Entire communities have been flattened,” she said, with children and families sleeping out in the open with...

UN teams ramp up response to deadly quake in Myanmar and Thailand

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·March 30, 2025·2 min read

The Emergency Relief Coordinator tweeted that UN teams are being “supported by expertise across our global network”. News reports quoting sources in the Burmese city of Mandalay, close to the epicentre of the quake, indicate that hundreds have died. In neighbouring Thailand more than 80 construction workers are missing, according...

Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams

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·March 22, 2025·3 min read

“We’re waking up from another intense night of bombardments, the fourth night of bombardment since the ceasefire abruptly broke down on Monday night…the situation is gravely, gravely concerning,” said Sam Rose, Acting Director of Affairs in Gaza for UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestine refugees. Speaking from close to the...

US cuts mean ‘essential’ UN mental health teams in Ukraine risk closure

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·March 3, 2025·4 min read

A young mother, five children in tow, steps off a train in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, holding a small bag. She is fleeing Russian attacks in the Zaporizhzhia region, she is also escaping a violent partner, a man who once beat her so severely she suffered a miscarriage....

Aid surge into Gaza continues, UN teams prioritize immediate needs

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·February 13, 2025·4 min read

Amid reports that a return to full-scale war at the weekend may have been averted with the announcement by Hamas that it would comply with the agreed release of Israeli hostages, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that aid teams were “seizing every opportunity” to...