Archive for June 18th, 2025

18/06/2025

More Gazans Killed Trying to Get Food, Healthcare Near to ‘Full Disaster’

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN News)* — Gaza’s health system is at breaking point, overwhelmed time and again by scores of people killed or injured near aid distribution sites, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday

The Israeli military's evacuation orders apply to 80 per cent of Gaza, leaving many of the enclave's people displaced.
UN News | The Israeli military’s evacuation orders apply to 80 per cent of Gaza, leaving many of the enclave’s people displaced.

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18/06/2025

‘Every Minute, an Equivalent of Four Football Fields of Healthy Land Becomes Degraded’

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18/06/2025

“We Have No One Else.” Families on the Brink in Nigeria’s Worst Hunger Crisis in Five Years

Human Wrongs Watch

(UN Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)* — North-east Nigeria is facing its worst malnutrition crisis in five years. More than 1 million children under age 5 across Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states are at risk of severe acute malnutrition – that’s twice as many children as last year and the highest number on record.

Falmata and her granddaughter, Aisha, at the entrance of their makeshift shelter in Sangaya displacement camp, Dikwa, Borno State.
Falmata and her granddaughter, Aisha, at the entrance of their makeshift shelter in Sangaya displacement camp, Dikwa, Borno State. Photo: OCHA/Chima Onwe

For families who already endured years of conflict and displacement, hunger is a new and urgent threat.

“We’ve been here since 2016,” said Falmata Idris, 53, who lives in a makeshift shelter in the Sangaya camp for internally displaced people in Dikwa, Borno State, with her 12-year-old granddaughter, Aisha. 

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