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Sudan faces unprecedented hunger and displacement as war enters third year

·April 14, 2025·3 min read

As the war enters its third year, UN humanitarians warn that immediate action is essential. “This is a manmade crisis, driven by conflict – not by drought or floods or earthquakes and because of the obstruction of access to humanitarian assistance by parties to the conflict,” Shaun Hugues, Regional Emergency...

Sudan war has created suffering of ‘industrial proportions’, aid agencies warn

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·April 11, 2025·2 min read

“With no viable peace in sight, the Sudanese are trapped in a humanitarian crisis of industrial proportions,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. “Two out of three people need aid, that’s 30 million people…This, of course, demands a massive ramp-up of international support; what we...

Sudan war: UNHCR chief stresses need to help refugee hosts in Chad

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·April 9, 2025·2 min read

Chad hosts 1.3 million forcibly displaced people, according to the UN agency, UNHCR despite it being one of the world’s poorest countries. More than half of these vulnerable individuals are Sudanese who’ve fled the fighting between rival militaries which erupted in April 2023. Speaking from the Chadian border with Sudan, Mr....

Gaza: UN humanitarians flag impact on children of return to war

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·April 1, 2025·3 min read

UNICEF’s Rosalia Bollen, who’s on the ground there, said that hundreds of children had been killed and injured – some with severe burns, shrapnel lodged in their bodies, fractures and amputations. “Even on 18 March with that very heavy, intense bombing, children still kept hope because they thought maybe it’s...

Sudan war: Displacement figures fall for first time

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·April 1, 2025·2 min read

However, the country remains in the grip of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with millions facing famine, disease and insecurity. IOM data shows that between December last year and March, displacement fell by 2.4 per cent – with nearly 400,000 people returning to their places of origin in...

Gaza: Acts of war bear hallmarks of atrocity crimes, warn UN humanitarians

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·March 29, 2025·2 min read

According to local health authorities in Gaza, 830 people were killed between 18-23 March, including 174 women and 322 children. A further 1,787 were injured. “The acts of war that we see bear the hallmarks of atrocity crimes,” said Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA. “Hundreds of...

Yemen: Ten Years of War, a Lifetime of Loss 

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·March 26, 2025·3 min read

Ten years. That’s how long Yemenis have been putting their lives on hold – through airstrikes, through hunger, through loss. A decade of war has left Yemen’s infrastructure in ruins and its people exhausted. And yet, as the eleventh year begins, the world seems not to notice Yemen’s plight. Today,...

Yemen: One in two children severely malnourished after 10 years of war

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·March 25, 2025·2 min read

“We need to move fast,” said UNICEF representative in the country Peter Hawkins. “I was in Hudaydah over the past three days…I went through the western lowlands, where there are people on the streets, on the side of the roads, begging and looking for assistance. They have given up. We...

‘Brighter future hangs in the balance’ in Syria after 14 years of war

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·March 17, 2025·1 min read

The announcement comes as Syria marks 14 years since peaceful protests were met with brutal repression, igniting a conflict that has displaced millions and left the country in ruins. While the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024 initially raised hopes for stability, fresh violence is threatening these fragile...

Sudan war: Children facing ‘unimaginable suffering’, warns UNICEF chief

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·March 14, 2025·4 min read

“This is not just a crisis, it is a poly-crisis affecting every sector, from health and nutrition to water, education and protection,” Catherine Russell, UNICEF Executive Director, told ambassadors in the Security Council. Since war erupted between the former allies-turned-rivals, the Sudanese army (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and...

Rights probe alleges sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli forces used as ‘method of war’

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·March 14, 2025·3 min read

“Israel has increasingly employed sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence against Palestinians as part of a broader effort to undermine their right to self-determination,” maintained Chris Sidoti from the Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). ‘Increasingly used’ Speaking in Geneva, the human rights lawyer said that...

Ukraine reels from one of the deadliest days of war

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·March 10, 2025·1 min read

“With 21 civilians reported killed, 7 March was one of the deadliest days for civilians in Ukraine so far this year,” UN mission chief Danielle Bell said Russian’s full-scale invasion in February 2022 has killed thousands and left millions displaced by the ongoing war. The UN monitoring mission said all...