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Funding and supply shortfalls for the UN World Food Programme's relief work in Ethiopia will halt lifesaving treatment for 650,000 malnourished women and children at the end of the month. "We are at the breaking point," the agency said on Tuesday.

An Israeli air strike early Sunday heavily damaged one of the few functioning hospitals in Gaza, with the Israeli military saying it had targeted a Hamas "command and control centre" operating within the facility.Since the outbreak of war, tens of thousands of Gazans have sought refuge in hospitals,...

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27 (IPS) - From late 2024 to early 2025, the humanitarian situation in Ukraine has taken a turn for the worst, with poverty, violence, displacement, and damage to critical infrastructures having grown in intensity. Following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia, tensions have grown among member states of the United Nations (UN) on how to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian War.

As the Security Council prepared to gather on Wednesday to debate the international community's response to the growing emergency in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN's top aid official there urged all warring parties to allow lifesaving relief supplies to reach the most vulnerable.

Legislation that goes into effect on Thursday bars UNRWA from operating in the country. That will affect aid delivery to Gaza and beyond.

The United States has determined that Israel has substantially met its demand to take "concrete steps" to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days or risk losing military assistance provided by Washington.

The World Food Program said Tuesday it could become a "full-scale human catastrophe." Five countries — Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe — have declared national disasters over the drought and resultant hunger.

Relentless violence is devastating Sudan, and large-scale fighting has escalated in and around El Fasher

A relentless siege, deadly targeted attacks and chronic restrictions on lifesaving aid deliveries into the war-torn Gaza Strip by Israeli forces: that's just some of what aid workers are grappling with as they try to provide the level of lifesaving assistance needed to stave off widespread famine and epidemics in the strip.

A humanitarian air service, which has been described by the World Food Programme chief as "giving help and giving hope" to the world's most remote and disadvantaged communities, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced nearly $203 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan

The onset of punishing summer temperatures in the densely populated Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands are living in tents, has made life even more arduous.

The pier constructed by the U.S. military was only operational for about a week before it was blown apart in rough seas last month. Repairs were completed Friday.

Global uproar calling for an end to the Israeli incursion in Rafah "has grown too loud to ignore", UN Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Friday, in a fresh appeal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages.

The Sudanese people "are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence" with famine, disease and fighting closing in and no end in sight, the top U.N...

As an Israeli assault on Gaza's southern city of Rafah displaced Palestinians have set up a tent school to help educate children.

Nonprofit organization World Central Kitchen is set to resume its aid work in Gaza, weeks after seven aid workers were killed.

A pier operation being assembled by U.S. service members will involve an elaborate process to provide Gazans with just a portion of the aid they need.

224 aid workers have been killed since the start of the war, as the death of WCK aid workers highlight the failure of the Israeli military to protect aid workers in line with international humanitarian law.