emergency aid

The UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths (left) meets a couple whose house was destroyed in Hawzen, Tigray.
UNOCHA/Saviano Abreu

News in Brief 6 August 2021

6 August 2021
News in Brief
  • Tigray ceasefire more urgent than ever, says UN relief chief Griffiths
  • Myanmar’s third COVID-19 wave hitting like a ‘tsunami": WFP
  • Mali violence threatens country’s survival, UN expert warns
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At least 1.5 million children in Haiti are in urgent need of emergency relief.
© UNICEF/Manuel Moreno Gonza

News in Brief 9 July 2021

9 July 2021
News in Brief
  • A third of Haiti’s children in urgent need of aid: UNICEF
  • Creation of Israeli settlements should be ‘war crime’, UN rights expert says
  • Honduras urged to stop criminalizing defence of indigenous rights
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A man wears a face mask and gloves while sitting in a cafe in Glasgow, Scotland.
Unsplash/Ross Sneddon

News in Brief 17 December 2020

17 December 2020
News in Brief
  • COVID: end of year celebrations and ski advice from WHO
  • Under 40s urged to make extra effort for vulnerable in Western Pacific
  • UN Children’s Fund supports emergency food aid for hungry kids over holidays
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Children attend class in a temporary tent school in Mulombela village, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

Children ‘are dying’ now in DRC’s Kasai from malnutrition, warns UNICEF

11 May 2018
Humanitarian Aid

400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “are at risk of death” in the Kasais region from food shortages caused by conflict and displacement, according to a senior UN official who has just returned from the area, expressing shock at what he had witnessed.

UNMISS head David Shearer in Aburoc to assess UN peacekeeping contribution.
UNMISS/Daniel Dickinson

Praise for peacekeepers' support in recent South Sudan crisis

22 June 2017
General News

Peacekeepers at the UN mission in South Sudan, UNMISS, are being praised by the top UN official in the country for their speedy response in support of a recent humanitarian emergency in the north.

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Oil refinery.
IMF

UN and Africa: focus on oil prices, Burundi and South Sudan refugees in Uganda

1 September 2016
UN and Africa

Very significant shock” of lower oil prices in Africa

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