humanitarian aid

The Centre for Humanitarian Data's (UNOCHA) Lead, Sarah Telford, and Partnerships Manager, Kareem Elbayar at the centre.
UNOCHA/Yumi Endo

Saving lives with data: how the UN is developing digital tools for improved humanitarian aid

19 December 2018
Interviews

Sarah Telford, the director of the UN Centre for Humanitarian Data, spoke to Conor Lennon from UN News about the ways that better data tools can assist humanitarian workers in getting aid to the people who need it most, and also the challenges the Centre faces, from privacy issues to the risk of identification and subsequent reprisals in conflict areas.

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On 30 June 2018 in Yemen, a ship berths in Hudaydah port and emergency humanitarian supplies sent by UNICEF are offloaded.
© UNICEF

Yemen: fragile Hudaydah truce needs worldwide support, says WFP

14 December 2018
Interviews

Thursday’s announcement that a ceasefire deal has been reached between Yemen’s warring sides in the key Red Sea port of Hudaydah will make it “easier” to save millions of lives in the wartorn country, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said. In an interview with UN News’s Daniel Johnson, WFP spokesperson Hervé Verhoosel explains how more such deals are needed to help severely food insecure people in 45 districts across Yemen.

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Children attend class at school in in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, State of Palestine, Sunday 3 December 2017.
UNICEF/Loulou d’Aki

UN Agency warns Palestinian refugee schools face October closure

17 August 2018
Interviews

UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, says it will be able to open the schools it operates for the coming academic term.  However, with the Agency still struggling to cope with the US decision to cut funding by $300 million, the prospect beyond September are still very uncertain.  UNRWA spokesperson Chris Gunness spoke with UN News.

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A young girl is treated at a hospital in in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo where the humanitarian situation has deteriorated dramatically over the past year.
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

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

11 May 2018
Interviews

It’s not often that experienced aid workers concede that they’ve been deeply affected on a personal level, by a humanitarian crisis.

But that’s the case on Friday, for UN Children’s Fund spokesperson Christophe Boulierac, who’s been speaking about the desperate situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Kasai region.

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Robert Opp, Director of WFP's Innovation and Change Management Division.
UN News/Alexandre Soares

Digital innovation powering WFP efforts to end refugee hunger

13 April 2018
The Lid is On

Digital cash vouchers powered by the revolutionary technology behind the Bitcoin cryptocurrency are helping the UN ensure that food aid is getting to where it’s needed most.

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Peter de Clercq (left), Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia and the UN Resident Humanitarian Coordinator, leads a team of UN officials during a visit to drought-hit Habasweyne village.
UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

London conference puts Somalia humanitarian needs in spotlight

6 March 2018
Interviews

The global spotlight needs to remain on Somalia as it recovers from protracted drought followed by successive failed rains, according to the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country, Peter de Clercq.

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Displaced women queue with containers for clean water from a UNICEF and ECHO-supported clean-water tank at the internally displaced peoples camp in Galkayo, Somalia. The humanitarian situation in Somalia continues to deteriorate due to the severe drought.
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London conference aims to keep focus on Somalia humanitarian needs

6 March 2018
Interviews

Helping communities to improve resilience is critical in Somalia, which suffered a drought in 2015 that has displaced some two million people.

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A medical worker registers young patients in the small rural village of An-Nassiri, located about 60 km from Al Hudaydah, Yemen. Only 45 per cent of health facilities in the war-torn country are currently functioning.
OCHA/Giles Clarke

UN releases $9.1 million to fill ‘critical healthcare gaps’ in Yemen

7 February 2018
Health

With only 50 per cent of medical facilities fully functional in Yemen, the United Nations health agency is striving to fill a “critical” healthcare shortage and will use a $9.1 million emergency response grant to assist 630,000 vulnerable people in districts around Sana’a and al-Hudayda.

Photo: UN OCHA Yemen
UN OCHA Yemen

Giving voice to Yemen’s voiceless: Jamie McGoldrick reflects on two years in charge of the UN’s humanitarian effort

31 January 2018
The Lid is On

This year’s UN Response Plan for Yemen, describes the war-torn country as “the worst man-made humanitarian crisis” in the world, with more than 22 million people – around three-quarters of the total population – in need of help.

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The conflict in Syria has resulted in a serious deterioration in access to health services for civilians across the country. (file)
WHO

Lives at risk “every minute that passes” in besieged Eastern Ghouta

29 January 2018
Interviews

Close to 400,000 civilians continue to be in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in Syria’s besieged Eastern Ghouta, said the UN on Monday.

Fighting has intensified and humanitarian agencies have not been able to provide lifesaving food or medical supplies, since 28th of November.

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