A silent and underfunded chronic humanitarian crisis has developed in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), according to the United Nations.

The Organization has just released a report on the needs and priorities of the country in 2015.

A lack of money and trained staff is hampering the response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in South Sudan, according to the UN.

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the conflict between government and opposition forces that began in December 2013.

A “desperate” situation is developing inside a refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus in Syria where heavy fighting between warring parties is putting hundreds of thousands of civilians in “acute danger”.

The rainy season seems to have come early this year in South Sudan prompting what has been described as “a race against time” to preposition food for the people in need.