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OCHA, the UN agency coordinating humanitarian aid, is sounding the alarm about the urgent need to find funding to meet the food needs of tens of millions of people by 2025. Of the $44 billion earmarked for the current year, only $5.6 billion had been disbursed by June, i.e. 13% …

The UN castigated on Monday 19, August 19, “inadmissible” violence on Monday 19, which are generalized against humanitarian workers, including 280 were killed worldwide in 2023. An outburst of trivialized violence. “The normalization of violence against humanitarian workers and the fact that no one accounts are unacceptable, inadmissible and extremely …

The United Nations has said it will resume delivering humanitarian supplies and evacuating staff in Niger after the country’s ruling junta lifted domestic flight restrictions, the BBC reported. “The national aviation authorities in Niger have informed the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) that flight restrictions are now lifted for domestic …

More than 340,000 people in Chad are affected by flooding due to torrential rains, according to a report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). “The floods destroyed nearly 2,700 hectares of crops and farmland, increasing food insecurity. The number of people affected by the …

The United Nation’s humanitarian affairs agency (Ocha) says the world is not paying enough attention to crises beyond the war in Ukraine including a devastating drought in East Africa. The head of the organisation, Martin Griffiths, made the appeal after visiting Turkana in north-west Kenya where food is extremely scarce …

According to figures by the UN, nearly 500,000 people would have been affected by flash flooding in six regional states in South Sudan. “An estimated 426,000 people have been affected and displaced by floods in South Sudan since May. Insecurity in Warrap State has made it difficult to respond to …

About 90,000 people have been affected by flash flooding in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, the UN humanitarian affairs agency (Ocha) says. The UN said local authorities had reported over 70,000 affected people in Ayod and Canal counties and many were experiencing this for the second time since May. It …

Humanitarian convoys have made way in the Central African Republic’s capital Bangui after rebel groups losing ground to pro-government forces temporarily allowed passage. The Coalition of Patriots for Change (CPC), an alliance of six of the most powerful armed groups that have controlled two-thirds of the Central African Republic’s eight-year …

Southern Madagascar is suffering from the worst drought in a decade and the resultant food crisis, worsened by the effects of coronavirus. In the south-east of Madagascar now, one in three people suffer from severe food insecurity, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. ”In times …