‘Despair’: UN Deplores Gaza Conditions, Child Casualties Amid Israeli War
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UNRWA’s chief says half a million Palestinians are in crammed UN buildings, with scarce food or water and nowhere to sleep. An urgent...
Sudan's War Passed 6 Months, With Much of the World Consumed by Other Conflicts
JOHANNESBURG — The war between Sudan's military and a paramilitary group has entered its seventh month, causing nearly 190 days and...
Russia Stops Ukraine Grain Deal, Shaking World Food Markets
Moscow, which has repeatedly complained that the U.N.-brokered agreement is one-sided in Ukraine’s favor, said it could return to the...
Lula blames Bolsonaro for Yanomami hunger, opens ‘genocide’ probe
Brazil’s justice minister requested an investigation into potential crimes of genocide against the Indigenous Yanomami people Monday, as...
Au Haut-Karabakh, la menace d’une crise humanitaire sans précédent
Depuis le 12 décembre, le corridor de Latchine, l'unique route qui relie cette république autoproclamée à l'Arménie, est bloquée par des...
Tigrayans Need a Path Home After Abiy’s War
Ethiopia can only recover morally and economically by welcoming refugees back. After two years of genocidal war, a fragile peace is...
The year in humanitarian news
A timeline of significant events in 2022. From Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and the global impacts) to Haiti’s spiralling gang violence...
A famine that’s not a famine: ‘Children are waiting to die’
Agencies say Somalia is ‘on the brink of famine’, but evidence suggests the extent of mass starvation is much worse Abdirahman’s mother...
NEW ANALYSIS – AFGHANISTAN TOPS LIST OF 7 COUNTRIES WHERE CHILDREN WERE MOST IN NEED IN 2022
Thenumber of children needing humanitarian assistance rose more than 20% this year to 149 million, with Afghanistan then the Democratic...
Haiti faces famine – but its troubles are rooted in a brutal colonial past
The Caribbean country has been blighted by colonial exploitation, natural disasters and violent gangs – now a food crisis looms. What can...
Iraq in the News
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