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The ‘unthinkable’ is underway in Gaza City, UNICEF warns

·September 8, 2025·4 min read

Tess Ingram, Communication Manager for UNICEF’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, recently spent nine days there, describing it as “a city of fear, flight and funerals.” “The last refuge for families in the northern Gaza Strip is fast becoming a place where childhood cannot survive,” she said, speaking...

Window to prevent famine spreading in Gaza is ‘closing fast’, UN warns

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·September 7, 2025·3 min read

Tom Fletcher’s statement amid what he described as “a massive military offensive” by Israeli forces against Palestinians in Gaza City, and the failure of ceasefire negotiations with Hamas militants. By the end of September famine will likely have spread into Deir al Balah and Khan Younis, he said, unless there...

‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief

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·September 1, 2025·2 min read

Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee their homes, he added. ‘Shamefully overlooked’ Haiti now ranks among the five hunger hotspots worldwide that are of “highest concern,” said the UN chief. Yet it...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Haiti ‘shamefully overlooked’, warns Guterres

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·August 29, 2025·1 min read

Haitians are enduring a “perfect storm of suffering” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council on Thursday as gang violence continues to paralyse daily life across the island. Around 1.3 million people – half of them children – have fled their homes and six million are relying on humanitarian assistance. Follow...

UN warns Gaza crisis could worsen without safe, unrestricted aid flow

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·August 16, 2025·1 min read

In his regular daily briefing, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric highlighted that ongoing delays, bottlenecks at holding points and interference in the loading process at crossing platforms are undermining efforts to collect and distribute supplies to those in need. “It is imperative that the UN and its humanitarian partners are enabled...

UN warns of steep rise in sexual violence during conflict

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·August 14, 2025·2 min read

According to the annual Report of the Secretary-General on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, both State and non-State actors were responsible for violations in 21 countries, with the highest numbers recorded in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan. Women and girls...

Gaza health system ‘catastrophic’ with hospitals overwhelmed and medicines running out, WHO warns

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·August 12, 2025·1 min read

Fewer than half of Gaza’s hospitals and under 38 per cent of primary healthcare centres are partially functioning – or are doing so at minimal levels – said Dr. Rik Peeperkorn, World Health Organization (WHO) Representative for the West Bank and Gaza. Bed occupancy in major facilities is exceeding limits...

‘The real challenge is still ahead’: UN warns on Afghan returnees

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·August 9, 2025·2 min read

“The real challenge is still ahead of us,” Stephanie Loose, Programme Manager in Afghanistan, told journalists in Geneva on Friday. “We’re speaking about the reintegration of people who’ve lost their homes, who’ve lost their assets and also their hope.” Millions on the move Afghanistan is currently facing an unprecedented returnee...

Cholera spreads in North Darfur, 640,000 children under threat, UNICEF warns

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·August 4, 2025·2 min read

More than 1,180 cholera cases – including an estimated 300 in children – and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, a town that has absorbed over half a million people fleeing violence since April. Across the wider Darfur region, the toll is even more alarming: nearly 2,140...

Gaza: Nearly 1,400 Palestinians killed while seeking food, as UN warns airdrops are no solution

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·August 2, 2025·1 min read

Between 30 and 31 July alone, 105 Palestinians were killed and at least 680 more injured along the convoy routes in the Zikim area in North Gaza, southern Khan Younis, and in the vicinity of the GHF sites in Middle Gaza and Rafah, the office (OHCHR) said in a press...

UN warns of ‘catastrophic hunger’ in Gaza as Israel announces humanitarian pauses

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·July 27, 2025·4 min read

But as starvation tightens its grip and “children are dying before our eyes,” UN officials and aid workers warn that the measures fall far short of the much-needed ceasefire and unfettered aid access that could help stem the spiralling humanitarian catastrophe. “Welcome announcement of humanitarian pauses in Gaza to allow...

UN warns of escalating human toll in Ukraine amid relentless aerial attacks, mounting aid shortfall

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·July 27, 2025·2 min read

“Nowhere is safe in Ukraine,” said Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe at the UN Department of Political Affairs. Citing figures from the UN human rights office, OHCHR, he said civilian casualties reached a three-year high in June, with 6,754 civilians killed or injured in the first half of 2025...