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Gaza: Resuming night-time aid deliveries, UN reports ‘dire’ conditions

NEPS — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 10:16:54 +0000

UN officials launched assessment visits to Gaza and its agencies will resume night-time aid deliveries on Thursday after a 48-hour pause following Israeli forces killing seven World Central Kitchen relief workers in a convoy delivering food in the enclave, where intense Israeli bombardment and ground operations continue.

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Gaza fighting spreads into hospitals where there’s ‘no way in and out’

NEPS — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:56:27 +0000

Amid continuing heavy fighting in Gaza on Tuesday morning, including reported attacks on hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians expressed deep concern for patients and others seeking treatment who had “no way in and out”.

n Geneva, Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the UN World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed that Al-Kheir Hospital was “one of the two hospitals that is now being raided”, while Nasser Hospital was “now basically besieged around the hospital and has no way in and out”.

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Afghanistan: Agencies launch funding appeal for quake-hit families

NEPS — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 04:47:47 +0000

UN agencies are appealing for urgent funds to assist the hundreds of thousands affected by deadly earthquakes in western Afghanistan.

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UN launches flash appeal to aid 250,000 Libyans hit by devastating floods

NEPS — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 05:35:31 +0000

UN humanitarians are working flat out on the ground in Libya, providing desperately needed aid to thousands of survivors of the flood disaster that has left thousands dead and thousands more unaccounted for.

Disaster struck on Sunday when torrential rains from Storm Daniel led two dams close to the now devastated port city of Derna to burst, pushing entire neighbourhoods into the sea.

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FAO raises alarm on escalating food crisis in Sudan

NEPS — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 04:56:20 +0000

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has issued a grave warning regarding the deepening food crisis in Sudan, as the country grapples with conflict and economic decline.

FAO said 20.3 million individuals in Sudan face severe hunger, a figure that has nearly doubled since last year.

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Myanmar: Military’s obstruction of humanitarian aid could be international crime

NEPS — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 05:57:21 +0000

Myanmar’s military is killing civilians, destroying food and homes, and keeping the most vulnerable from receiving lifesaving aid, according to a new report from the UN human rights office (OHCHR).

The chief of OHCHR’s Myanmar team, James Rodehaver, explained that since their February 2021 coup, the country’s military rulers have been instilling a “climate of fear” to subjugate the civilian population, restricting aid access and using “all means” at their disposal to clamp down on civil society.

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Horn of Africa: Around 60 million in urgent humanitarian need

NEPS — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 04:35:13 +0000

Climate, armed conflict, high food prices and post-COVID-19 economic fall-out have caused record food insecurity in the Horn of Africa, with an estimated 60 million urgently in need of help, UN humanitarian agencies warned on Monday.

“About five million children under the age of five are estimated to be facing acute malnutrition in 2023 in the Horn region, in the Greater Horn.

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Sudan: Guterres urges donors to boost aid response to halt death, destruction

NEPS — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 04:58:07 +0000

A UN-led appeal for funding to help the people of Sudan raised $1.5 billion on Monday as UN chief António Guterres warned that the country was descending “into death and destruction” at breakneck speed.

Addressing donors at a pledging event in Geneva convened by the UN with Egypt, Germany, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the African Union and the European Union, Mr.

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Russia declines UN request for aid access to areas flooded by Ukraine dam breach

NEPS — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 04:31:00 +0000

A senior United Nations relief official said on Sunday that Russia has so far declined requests to help residents of Russian-controlled areas of southern Ukraine impacted by the breach of the Kakhkova dam.

The destruction earlier this month of the Soviet-era dam and hydroelectric plant in an area reportedly under Russian control since its invasion in 2022, has caused widespread flooding across southern Ukraine, washing away homes, destroying sanitation and sewage systems and crippling water supplies.

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Ukraine: 700,000 people affected by water shortages from dam disaster

NEPS — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 05:09:24 +0000

UN humanitarians continue bringing life-saving aid to survivors of the flooding from the Kakhovka Dam, but they’ve warned that hundreds of thousands more people in the country’s south face severe water shortages.

On Friday, relief supplies were delivered to vulnerable families in the rural Kherson region close to the front line.

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