ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned that 58 million people risk losing life-saving assistance in the agency’s 28 most critical crisis response operations unless new funding is received urgently.
(UN News)* — Hundreds of thousands of guns are being used by gangs to exert control and spread terror in Haiti, according to the UN’s designated expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.
The island nation has suffered from a series of humanitarian, economic, political and security crises in recent years and it is widely believed that gangs control up to 90 per cent of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
William O’Neill spoke to UN News following a recent visit to Haiti.
PORT SUDAN/AMMAN/NEW YORK, 15 April 2025 (UNICEF)* – As the conflict in Sudan enters its third year, the number of children in need of humanitarian assistance has doubled, from 7.8 million at the start of 2023 to more than 15 million today.
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Without urgent action, Sudan’s dire humanitarian crisis could tip into greater catastrophe.
(UN News)* — Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, on said.
Sudan, 15 April 2025 – Most people know her as Mama Nour (Light in Arabic), a name that perfectly embodies her spirit. Nour Hussein Al Sewaty Mohammed has devoted her life to bringing hope and light to countless women and children in Sudan who have faced unimaginable hardships, even amid Sudan’s ongoing war.
Mama Nour, an orphan herself, now advocates for single mothers and children without parental care in Sudan. Photo: IOM Sudan 2025/Omer Hagali
Mama Nour’s journey began in the shadows of her own childhood. Orphaned at a young age, she grew up in Maygoma, Sudan’s largest orphanage located in the capital, Khartoum.
LONDON, Apr 15 2025 (IPS)* – It is now official that the European continent is experiencing the fastest rate of global warming, according to a new scientific report released by Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Global warming has led to the loss of glacier ice in Austria. Photo credit: H.Raab/Climate Visuals
Last year record temperatures, heatwaves, and floods unleashed a massive toll on infrastructure, cities, economies, and people’s lives and livelihoods in the region.
(UN News)* — Hostilities across the Gaza Strip continue to take a devastating toll on the population, with daily reports of Israeli strikes killing and injuring many civilians, UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Thursday .
OCHAsaiddozens of people, including at least eight children, were killed in Gaza City on Wednesday 9 April 2025 after an Israeli strike hit a residential building.
(UN News)* — The United Nations is ramping up its response to Myanmar’s devastating earthquake, calling for increased funding and an immediate ceasefire to ensure more aid reaches those in desperate need.
The 7.7 magnitude earthquake – which struck on March 28 – has claimed over 3,600 lives, injured a further 4,800 people and left 184 still missing.
The disaster has affected more than nine million people across 58 townships, with thousands of buildings, including hospitals and schools, reduced to rubble.
()* — As governments and global markets struggle to deal with the deep concerns and disruptions caused by volatility over trade tariffs, Rebeca Grynspan, the head of the UN trade and development agency (UNCTAD), told UN News on Thursday that the poorest countries – whose activities have a negligible effect on trade deficits – should be exempt.
Ms. Grynspan was speaking in the wake of growing UN concern at the effect on-going uncertainty could have on the most vulnerable developing economies.
On Tuesday , the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, stated that “trade wars are extremely negative,” and warned that the impact of tariffs could be “devastating.”
The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk, Amnesty International on said.
(Photo by KHALED ZIAD/AFP via Getty Images)
After a decade of a devastating conflict, Yemen continues to face one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
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