U.N. aid chief condemns record-breaking year of ‘bullets and bombs’
The U.N. says the war in Gaza is the single-biggest factor in the deaths of 281 humanitarian aid workers this year.
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The U.N. says the war in Gaza is the single-biggest factor in the deaths of 281 humanitarian aid workers this year.
Many of these children lack any modern means to endure the soaring temps that particularly afflict eight African countries.
WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
Europe dominates the top rankings as development in half of the world’s poorest nations falls below pre-pandemic levels.
The U.N. Security Council demanded an immediate end to fighting in Sudan during Ramadan, which begins Sunday.
The aid plan is meant to fund the work of 163 organizations inside Sudan and 83 others in refugee-hosting countries.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war accelerated geopolitical tensions among major powers.
A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.
The fighting that broke out last month caused the ranks of those who need humanitarian aid and protection to swell to 24.6 million, or slightly more than half of Sudan's 49 million.
Most of Khartoum, Darfur and North Kordofan are too dangerous to operate in, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
As the continent faces a raft of complications, the African Union's ambitious goal of tackling structural root causes and drivers of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
With 50 million 'a step away from starvation,' humanitarian groups calculate a person dies of hunger every four seconds.
Tens of millions of people in 20 hunger "hotspots" will need emergency aid as they face a sharply increased risk of starvation, two U.N. agencies predicted.