Humanitarian Aid

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First Person: Rohingya refugees traumatized again, after devastating camp fire

25 April 2021
Asia Pacific

A Rohingya refugee and volunteer for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), has been telling UN News how his community has been “once again traumatized” as a result of a massive fire which swept through the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp in Bangladesh in March, killing at least 11 people and making more than 45,000 homeless.

UNOCHA/Yevhen Maloletka

UN-led aid convoy brings 23 tonnes of humanitarian goods across contact line in east Ukraine

23 April 2021
Europe

Twenty-three tonnes of urgently needed aid items have reached the eastern Ukrainian province around Donetsk, after a humanitarian convoy crossed the contact line into non-Government-controlled territory, the UN said on Friday. 

UNICEF

Syria receives first COVID-19 vaccines, for most vulnerable

22 April 2021
Middle East

More than 250,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Syria on Thursday from the UN-backed COVAX initiative, to inoculate the country’s frontline health workers.   

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La Soufrière volcano: UN launches $29 million appeal to support stricken island of Saint Vincent 

20 April 2021
Americas

The UN launched a $29.2 million global funding appeal on Monday to aid citizens of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines affected by the major eruptions spewing from La Soufrière volcano, pledging to remain a “steadfast partner”. 

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World Food Programme reaches deal to supply food to 185,000 children in Venezuela

20 April 2021
Americas

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has signed an agreement with the Government of Venezuela to begin operations to provide the most vulnerable children in the South American country with nutritious school meals, it announced on Tuesday.

© UNICEF/Zerihun Sewunet

‘No end’ to conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, warns UNICEF

20 April 2021
Africa

Disturbing reports have continued to emerge of widespread abuse of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, nearly six months since conflict erupted, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.

Bajanpro

UN stands in deep solidarity with Saint Vincent after devastating volcanic eruptions  

19 April 2021
Americas

Following a series of powerful eruptions from La Soufrière volcano on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent, the UN chief on Monday expressed deep solidarity with the country’s people and Government.  

UNICEF/Andrew Esiebo

Soaring food prices, conflicts driving hunger, rise across West and Central Africa: WFP

16 April 2021
Africa

More than 31 million people across West and Central Africa may not have enough to eat in the coming months as hunger rises due to an “explosive mix” of skyrocketing food prices, conflict and fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. 

© UNHCR/Roland Schönbauer

Northeast Nigeria violence forces 65,000 to flee, humanitarians targeted by armed groups

16 April 2021

A spate of clashes involving Government security forces and insurgent groups in northeast Nigeria has caused mass displacement and threatened humanitarian assistance, as armed groups go “house-to-house” hunting for aid workers, the UN said on Friday.

WFP/Marco Frattini

UN envoy highlights diplomatic unity, as key to help end Yemen war

15 April 2021
Middle East

The UN Special Envoy for Yemen appealed on Thursday for warring parties to implement a nationwide ceasefire and agree a date for peace talks, in line with a plan to end their conflict.