Syria: Aleppo fighting leaves civilians dead, displaces thousands
Clashes resumed on Tuesday between General Security Forces of the transition Government and the mainly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF),…
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Drones, fear and exhaustion: The daily reality of providing aid to Ukraine
For frontline workers like Oleg Kemin from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), this involves travelling deep into disputed territory…
Yemen aid response buckling under funding cuts as needs keep rising
According to the December humanitarian update from aid coordination office, OCHA, Yemen’s 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is just 25…
‘Do not give up on children:’ Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school
A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has…
Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats
Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia and Liberia have begun two-year terms as non-permanent members, replacing Algeria,…
Gaza aid lifelines under strain as winter worsens
Since the fragile October ceasefire began as phase one of the US-led peace plan, thousands of tents and hundreds of…
New year dawns amid rubble and resolve in Gaza
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain uprooted, many living in makeshift tents pitched on bare ground or squeezed into damaged…
Health advances marked 2025 as wars and funding cuts strained systems
Even as funding cuts, conflict and climate shocks strained health systems worldwide – disrupting essential services in many countries –…
UN chief condemns Israeli amendments targeting UNRWA operations
The amendments, adopted on 29 December, to the Law to Cease UNRWA Operations “seek to further impede UNRWA’s ability to operate and…
Sexual violence against children ‘entrenched, systemic and widespread’ across DR Congo, UNICEF warns
The surge is unfolding against the backdrop of escalating conflict in eastern DRC, where renewed fighting has triggered mass displacement,…