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05/05/2025

UN and NGOs Issue ‘a Stark Warning’ over the Deepening Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza

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()* — The UN and partners on Sunday issued a stark warning over the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as Israeli authorities maintain a near-total blockade on the delivery of aid for a ninth consecutive week.

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UN staff administer polio vaccines at a health clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, in September 2024.
© UNICEF/Eyad El Baba | UN staff administer polio vaccines at a health clinic in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, in September 2024.

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01/05/2025

Hundreds of Thousands of Afghans Forced Back into Danger: United Nations

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(UN News)* — Afghanistan’s escalating humanitarian crisis is being compounded by the mass return of its nationals from neighbouring countries, UN aid agencies warned on Tuesday [].

A family sit beside their belongings after crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan.
© UNHCR/Oxygen Empire Media Production | A family sit beside their belongings after crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan.

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28/04/2025

‘Years of Progress in Protection and Integration of Displaced People in Colombia at Risk’

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UNHCR staff provide emergency aid to internally displaced communities in Chocó, Colombia, following severe flooding and escalating violence in the region. © UNHCR/Courtesy Diego Pérez

Refugees and internally displaced populations may be forced to move again in search of safety and stability, while returnees will not find conditions to settle again.

Colombia hosts one of the largest uprooted populations in the world, with over 7 million internally displaced people, nearly 3 million Venezuelans refugees and migrants, and more than 500,000 Colombian returnees.

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25/04/2025

African Countries Still Underfunding Health by as Much as 50 Percent

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By Maina Waruru

NAIROBI, Apr 24 2025 (IPS)* – The majority of African countries are yet to commit 15 percent of their GDP to funding the health sector, despite the growing disease burden weighing down the continent and two decades after the coming into force of the Abuja declaration on health sector funding.
Health workers getting ready for duty at an mpox treatment center in Lwiro in DR Congo, a hotspot for the pandemic that CD Africa handled in 2024. Credit: WHO

Health workers getting ready for duty at an mpox treatment center in Lwiro in the Democratic Republic of Congo’, a hotspot for the pandemic that CD Africa handled in 2024. Credit: WHO

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24/04/2025

Largely Eradicated Diseases at Risk of Returning Due to Budget Cuts

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(UN News)* — Vaccines have saved around 150 million lives over the past 50 years, but that progress is now under threat. 
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A young girl receives the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination at a health clinic in Katsina, Nigeria.
© UNICEF/U.S. CDC | A young girl receives the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination at a health clinic in Katsina, Nigeria.

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04/03/2025

Food Prices Soar as Israel Blocks All Aid into Gaza

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(UN News)* — Israel’s move to prevent all aid from entering the Gaza Strip after Hamas reportedly refused to accept a plan to continue with phase one of the fragile ceasefire has had an immediate impact, including a 100-fold increase in the price of flour and vegetables.

The UN delivers supplies to Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza.
© WHO | The UN delivers supplies to Kamal Adwan hospital in Gaza.
 
That’s according to the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, which said on Monday [] that the Kerem Shalom, Erez and Zikim crossing closures means that vital humanitarian assistance, including thousands of tents, can’t be delivered to civilians in need.

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22/02/2025

Displaced Again: People Forced to Flee Fear Hunger as Violence Grips the East of DR Congo

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World Food Programme calls for urgent diplomatic interventions as the second largest city in east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo falls to M23.

A woman with orange headgear and a pink shawl has her hand to her chin as she sits in front of a row of tarpaulin tents in a displacement camp
Timusifu, a mother of six, is among hundreds of thousands of people being forced back to the displacement camps they fled at the end of January in North Kivu. WFP/Michael Castofas

21 February 2025 (WFP)* — The crisis in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is escalating rapidly after M23 fighters took over Bukavu, the second-largest city in eastern DRC, just weeks after seizing Goma.

Looting has severely disrupted humanitarian operations, leaving over 450,000 people without shelter, food, or water.

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06/02/2025

United Nations Chief Calls for Full Gaza Ceasefire, Rejecting ‘Ethnic Cleansing’

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Children in Gaza stand on debris from a destroyed building.
UN News | Children in Gaza stand on debris from a destroyed building.
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He was addressing the opening of the latest session of the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, which met to elect a new bureau and adopt a programme of work for the year.

The UN chief spoke in the wake of comments made by United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday night in the White House, who suggested the US could “take over” the Gaza Strip, calling on Palestinians living there to leave.

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28/01/2025

Breaking the Flow of Stigma for Displaced Women and Girls

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Dr. Tsebaot Meles, social entrepreneur and founder of Ngat Reusable Sanitary Solution based in Addis Ababa. Photo: IOM 2024/Yonatan Teffera Mekonen

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23/01/2025

A Dream Deferred: Why Is Traveling Across Africa So Hard for Africans?

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By Busani Bafana

BULAWAYO, Jan 23 2025 (IPS)* – Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, carries his frustration as visibly as he carries his passport.
Travelling across Africa is hard for Africans owing to restrictive visas. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS

Travelling across Africa is hard for Africans owing to restrictive visas. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS

To travel across the continent he calls home, he needs 35 visas—each a bureaucratic hurdle and a reminder of the barriers to free movement and trade in Africa.

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