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Afghanistan to remain major crisis in 2026, UN, partners warn

·December 31, 2025·1 min read

Years of conflict, compounded by worsening food insecurity, recurrent natural disasters, climate change impacts and large-scale returns of displaced people, have left an estimated 45 per cent of the population – some 21.9 million people – in need of humanitarian assistance next year. Of those, 17.5 million people – more...

Aid agencies warn Gaza response at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions

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·December 17, 2025·1 min read

In a sharply worded statement issued on Tuesday, the Humanitarian Country Team – which brings together senior UN officials and more than 200 local and international aid groups – called on the international community to press Israeli authorities to reverse measures that are choking humanitarian work, particularly in the Gaza...

Lebanon: UN peacekeepers warn of ‘clear violations’ following latest Israeli airstrikes

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·December 6, 2025·1 min read

The strikes come as the Lebanese Armed Forces continue operations to control unauthorised weapons and infrastructure in south Lebanon a year after a cessation of hostilities was announced in the country. “We urge the Israel Defense Forces to avail of the liaison and coordination mechanisms available to them,” UNIFIL said....

Asia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agencies

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·December 2, 2025·2 min read

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva that Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam are among the countries most affected by what she described as “a combination of monsoon-related rainfall and tropical cyclone activity”. “Asia is very, very vulnerable to floods,” Ms. Nullis...

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...

Two years of Gaza-Israel war bring ‘indescribable’ pain, warn aid agencies

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·October 7, 2025·3 min read

“The pain is indescribable” on the anniversary of the “abhorrent” attacks, said UN relief chief Tom Fletcher. “I renew my call for the unconditional, immediate release of all the hostages – and until then, they must be treated humanely,” he continued. “Civilians everywhere have to be protected.” Mr. Fletcher underscored the...

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

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·October 1, 2025·4 min read

A total of 151 children have perished through acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war – and the majority in 2025 – according to the latest figures from the Palestinian health authorities. Announcing Jana’s death in an online video message, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram...

Gaza: UN agencies warn of escalating attacks, mass displacement and famine

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·September 25, 2025·1 min read

The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OHCHR) says Israeli military tactics in Gaza City – including strikes on homes and schools – are “inflicting terror” and forcing people to flee. In parallel, UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, reports more than 20,000 people were forced to moved southwards in a single...

‘A war of atrocities’ – UN human rights investigators warn Sudanese civilians are paying the highest price

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·September 6, 2025·2 min read

“They burned everything,” said one witness of a shelling attack in the Zamzam displacement camp in war-torn Darfur. “They claimed they only wanted to fight soldiers, but they punished the whole community.” The war crimes and human rights violations perpetrated by all parties to the conflict between the military government...

The descent into ‘a massive famine’ in Gaza has begun, relief agencies warn

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·August 29, 2025·1 min read

Although the private aid platform run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation continues to receive its own supplies, “we are on a descent into a massive famine”, insisted Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, on Friday. Referring to the latest catastrophic assessment of food...

UN agencies warn of rising heat stress risks for workers worldwide

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·August 23, 2025·2 min read

The new joint report, Climate change and workplace heat stress, underscores the mounting risks as climate change fuels longer, more extreme, and more frequent heatwaves. Stressing that workers in agriculture, construction, and fisheries are already suffering the impacts of dangerous temperatures, the report points out that vulnerable groups in developing countries...

Sudan: You can run – but we will find you, militias warn terrified civilians

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·August 9, 2025·4 min read

“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer...