
Global aid cuts pose 'threat of major backsliding' with maternal deaths
The loss of funding could unravel major progress since 2000 in reducing women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
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The loss of funding could unravel major progress since 2000 in reducing women's deaths during pregnancy and childbirth.
People living in drylands doubled to 2.3 billion, more than a quarter of the world population, in the past three decades.
The U.N. says the war in Gaza is the single-biggest factor in the deaths of 281 humanitarian aid workers this year.
Many of these children lack any modern means to endure the soaring temps that particularly afflict eight African countries.
WHO warns disease and hunger are at alarming levels in the Congo, where almost 10 million people are on the move.
Europe dominates the top rankings as development in half of the world’s poorest nations falls below pre-pandemic levels.
The U.N. Security Council demanded an immediate end to fighting in Sudan during Ramadan, which begins Sunday.
The aid plan is meant to fund the work of 163 organizations inside Sudan and 83 others in refugee-hosting countries.
Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war accelerated geopolitical tensions among major powers.
A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.
Fighting led the ranks of those who need aid and protection to swell to 24.6 million, slightly more than half the population.
Most of Khartoum, Darfur and North Kordofan are too dangerous to operate in, the U.N. refugee agency said.
Low rainfall and high evaporation rates 'would not have led to drought at all in a 1.2° C. cooler world,' scientists concluded.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
Facing a raft of complications, the A.U. goal of tackling root causes of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Some 129,000 people are 'staring death in the eyes' while 11.9 million children under 5 could face acute malnutrition.