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UN seeks record $51.5 billion in aid to extend ‘lifeline’ worldwide
While many developing nations suffered droughts and floods, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted food supply lines.
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While many developing nations suffered droughts and floods, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted food supply lines.
The extension of a wartime agreement with Russia will continue to allow Ukraine's grain shipments to be exported.
Drought, floods, disease outbreaks and a global food crisis add pressure for real action at the U.N. climate summit in Egypt.
Famine looms in parts of Somalia between October and December and will likely last at least four to six months, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned.
Red Cross and U.N. workers rescued civilians from Ukraine's besieged Mariupol, busing them to safety as part of a negotiated "safe passage" operation.
Afghanistan needs more than $5 billion in aid to avert looming crises, the U.N. said in its largest-ever such appeal.
The U.N. Human Rights Council voted to create an international commission of experts that will investigate abuses during the past year of war in Ethiopia.
Some 274 million people will need emergency humanitarian aid in 2022 due to war, conflicts, hunger, climate change and the pandemic, the U.N. said.
Donors pledged more than US$1.2 billion in emergency aid for Afghanistan at a U.N.-sponsored fundraiser as the Tabilan consolidates power.
International donors contributed US$1.7 billion for people starving in Yemen, an amount that leaders of humanitarian organizations called disappointing.
U.N. officials released a 2021 humanitarian plan that projects a 40% increase in people who need aid from a year earlier.
After warning of "a full-scale humanitarian crisis" in Ethiopia, United Nations officials said 32,000 people fled Tigray region and 200,000 more may follow.
The number of people not getting enough nutrition rose by 60 million since 2014 — and the pandemic may add up to 132 million more this year.
Governments and organizations pledged €6.9 billion in humanitarian aid for people displaced inside Syria and for refugees who fled to neighboring countries.
The U.S. blocked a U.N. Security Council vote to end global hostilities amid a pandemic — the same day diplomats emphasized lessons from World War II.
The U.N. more than tripled its humanitarian aid appeal to US$6.7 billion, up from US$2 billion, for vulnerable countries.