Humanitarian Aid

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UN launches major humanitarian appeal to keep COVID-19 from ‘circling back around the globe’

25 March 2020
Global

To confront the unprecedented worldwide challenge posed by the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, top UN officials on Wednesday, launched a massive humanitarian appeal to mitigate its impact, particularly on fragile countries with weak health systems.

© UNICEF/Masoud Hasan

UNICEF sounds alarm over water cuts in Syria as efforts ramp up to prevent COVID-19 spread

23 March 2020

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and its relief partners in Syria are warning that water disruptions in the country’s war-battered north-east could exacerbate risks posed by the global coronavirus pandemic. 

©UNHCR/Aristophane Ngargoune

UNHCR delivers much-needed aid to Sudanese refugees in Chad

20 March 2020
Africa

Nearly 94 tonnes of emergency aid has been airlifted into Chad to support thousands of people who have fled ongoing violence in Sudan’s West Darfur state, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, reported on Friday.

UNOCHA/Iason Athanasiadis

UN aid teams work round the clock amid COVID-19 pandemic to ensure humanitarian support to millions

20 March 2020
Global

As the global humanitarian response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues at breakneck speed, UN assistance remains critical for some 100 hundred million people living in emergency situations, and life-saving food aid is essential for 87 million people across the world.

UNMISS

Women plough the way to peace in South Sudan resettlement project

18 March 2020
Africa

Women who had been displaced by fighting in South Sudan are sowing seeds of peace, with support from the UN mission in the country, UNMISS. 

UN Photo/Loey Felipe

COVID-19: Mental health in the age of coronavirus

16 March 2020
Global

Since January when the World Health Organization (WHO) determined the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, to be a “public health emergency of international concern”, stress levels everywhere have continued to mount.

© UNICEF/Ali Haj Suleiman

Syria: ‘The tragedy is deepening’ as UN figures reveal nearly 5 million children have known nothing but war 

14 March 2020

Syria marks a grim milestone this weekend as the tenth year of war begins, prompting the UN Special Envoy to take stock of the incomprehensible scale of suffering there, noting that with nearly a million newly displaced in Idlib, “the tragedy is deepening”.

IFRC/Stephen Ryan

Many Mozambicans still struggling to get back on their feet, one year after cyclone

13 March 2020
Africa

Many of the people who lost everything when Cyclone Idai swept through central Mozambique a year ago, continue to face devastating hardship, the UN food relief agency said on Friday.

©UNICEF/Abdulaziz Al-Droubi

As Syrian conflict enters 10th year, ‘brutal truth’ is, there is little protection for families 

13 March 2020

Although a fragile ceasefire agreed in northwest Syria is still holding, UN humanitarians on Friday warned of dire conditions for hundreds of thousands of civilians displaced by conflict, now in its tenth year. 

World Bank/Scott Wallace

De-escalate now, to steer Yemen off ‘precarious path’, UN Security Council hears

12 March 2020
Middle East

Yemen is at a “critical juncture”, the UN Special Envoy for the country told the Security Council on Thursday. Speaking via video-link, Martin Griffiths said that the combatants will either move towards de-escalation or greater violence, which would make “the path to the negotiating table more arduous”.