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Nigeria: Amid Record Hunger And Surging Insecurity, Emergency Food Assistance To Stall Entirely
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:59 am | UN News
At a time of escalating violence and record levels of hunger in Nigeria, critical funding shortfalls are forcing the UN World Food Program (WFP) to suspend all emergency food and nutrition aid for 1.3 million people in the northeast of the country. More >>
Haiti: Violence And Displacement Driving Humanitarian Crisis As Funding Needs Go Unmet
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:53 am | UN News
Escalating gang violence and displacement continue to drive humanitarian needs in Haiti, the UN said on Wednesday. More >>
Syria: Second Convoy Brings Critical Aid To Sweida
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 11:48 am | UN News
A second convoy from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) reached battered Sweida on Wednesday, the UN Office for the Coordinatin of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported in its latest update. More >>
Home Is Where The Heart Is – And Where Development Begins
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 10:16 am | UN News
When Denis Jobin, a senior evaluation specialist at the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), visited a slum in Kenya in March as part of an ongoing evaluation, the smell was overwhelming. More >>
UN Official Reiterates Call For Gaza Ceasefire As ‘Nightmare Of Historic Proportions’ Unfolds
Thursday, 24 July 2025, 10:06 am | UN News
A senior UN official on Wednesday urged the Security Council to push for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all hostages, warning that the war has become “a nightmare of historic proportions” and it is “long past time” for the ... More >>
Sudan: UN Scales Up Response Plan As Humanitarian Needs Spiral In Tawila
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 12:13 pm | UN News
As the humanitarian crisis deepens in Sudan, the UN and partners have revised and scaled up a response plan to support more than 380,000 displaced people in Tawila, North Darfur state. More >>
‘Perfect Storm’ Of Global Crises Drove Years Of Food Price Surges: FAO
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 9:56 am | UN News
The chief economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Máximo Torero Cullen, previewed its annual State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report in a briefing on Tuesday to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York. More >>
Security Council, In Unanimous Vote, Presses Nations To Resolve Disputes Peacefully
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 9:30 am | UN News
The UNSC adopted a resolution urging all Member States to “utilize effectively” the mechanisms for pacific settlement of disputes as outlined in the UN Charter, including “negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial ... More >>
Food Lifeline Fading For Millions In South Sudan Hit By Conflict And Climate Shocks
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 8:23 am | UN News
South Sudan’s dramatic hunger crisis is worsening and millions of people there could miss out on food aid because of the global humanitarian funding crisis, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday. More >>
UN’s Guterres Declares Fossil Fuel Era Fading; Presses Nations For New Climate Plans Before COP30 Summit
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 8:20 am | UN News
UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres declared the world has “passed the point of no return” on the shift to renewables and implored governments to file sweeping new climate plans before November’s COP30 climate summit in Brazil, saying the ... More >>
Gaza: UN Staff Now Fainting From Hunger, Exhaustion; WHO Worker Detained
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 8:16 am | UN News
Worrying alerts from United Nations staff in the Gaza Strip who have been fainting from hunger and exhaustion over the past 48 hours have increased fears for people’s survival in the devastated enclave, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. More >>
Deep Dive Into The International Seabed Authority: Why It Matters Now
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 7:27 am | UN News
Protecting underwater ecosystems from the growing interest in rare mineral mining, framing deep-sea laws and building a biobank are among landmark achievements of the UN’s International Seabed Authority (ISA), which is marking its 30th anniversary ... More >>
‘Peace Is A Choice’: UN Chief Urges Diplomacy As Wars Spread From Gaza To Ukraine
Wednesday, 23 July 2025, 7:08 am | UN News
Warning that the world is failing to uphold international law as wars stretch from Gaza to Ukraine, UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres urges all nations to choose diplomacy over division and recommit to settling disputes peacefully. More >>
People Dying From Lack Of Aid Every Day In Gaza: WFP Official
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 4:44 pm | UN News
The hunger crisis in Gaza has reached new and astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row, a senior official with the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. More >>
Salvaging SDGs Still Possible, But Countries Must Act Now: Guterres
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 4:40 pm | UN News
Citing new global agreements on pandemic preparedness, ocean protection and development financing, UN SecretaryGeneral António Guterres said on Monday that recent “signs of momentum” show multilateralism can still deliver. More >>
Syria: Ongoing Violence Fuelling Mass Displacement In Sweida
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 4:36 pm | UN News
Ongoing sectarian violence in Sweida, Syria has triggered mass displacement in the area as humanitarians attempt to deliver aid. More >>
Gaza: Guterres Condemns Killing Of People Seeking Food As Humanitarian Conditions Deteriorate
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 4:32 pm | UN News
UN Secretary-General António Guterres is appalled by the accelerating breakdown of humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where the last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing, his Spokesperson said on Monday. More >>
Dreams Amid The Rubble: Gaza’s Women Speak Of Homes, Loss And Hungry Children
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 3:57 pm | UN News
Hadriya collapses from hunger, Khadija dreams of her kitchen and Hiyam longs for her daughters’ laughter in the garden – these are the stories of three women from Gaza who embody the daily struggles of mothers exhausted by war, hunger and ... More >>
Droughts Are Causing Record Devastation Worldwide, UN-backed Report Reveals
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 3:54 pm | UN News
Worldwide, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have occurred in recent years due to climate change and resource depletion. More >>
‘Bet On Youth’ To Realise Africa’s Digital Potential, UN Deputy Chief Says
Tuesday, 22 July 2025, 10:36 am | UN News
Digital innovation and technology remain underfunded and underdeveloped across Africa, according to a report on Africa’s development which was discussed at the General Assembly on Monday. More >>
