
Extreme weather likely to displace 113 million children in next 30 years
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.
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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.
Fighting led the ranks of those who need aid and protection to swell to 24.6 million, slightly more than half the population.
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.
An estimated 15 million people among Sudan's 46.7 million population are facing acute food insecurity, according to WFP.
Facing a raft of complications, the A.U. goal of tackling root causes of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Mozambique hosted a talk on how the U.N. and regional organizations can curb terrorism and violent extremism.
Some 129,000 people are 'staring death in the eyes' while 11.9 million children under 5 could face acute malnutrition.