Disease, hunger, violence threaten millions of refugees in Africa
WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
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WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
WMO reports 2023 smashed climate records at previously unimaginable levels, bringing 'misery and mayhem.'
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.
UNICEF forecasts nearly 96 million children displaced by river flooding, 10.3 million by cyclonic winds, and 7.2 million by storm surges over three decades.
A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.
Funding for humanitarian aid has been getting hard to find amid global economic pressures, but the needs are soaring.
The conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, including 6.3 million a step away from famine.
Some 52% of all refugees and others who needed international protection came from Afghanistan, Syria and Ukraine.
A Swiss-led U.N. Security Council session called on all countries and armed groups to fulfill their obligations for protecting civilians under international humanitarian law.
Syrian President Bashar Assad, formerly ostracized by most Arab nations, was warmly readmitted to the Arab League.
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.
The U.N. confirmed at least 17,000 metric tons of food – enough to feed more than half a million people – were taken.
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.