UN aid

Sylhet submerged in flood water. File Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

UN disburses $6.2m to for flood-hit families in Bangladesh

By using early warning systems and scientific advances in disaster prediction, this CERF enabled implementing partners to reach 400,000 people in the northern Bangladesh districts

Palestinians with children wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen amid shortages of food supplies, as the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, 13 February 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN agency for Palestinians says barred from N Gaza aid deliveries

Trucks containing humanitarian aid from the World Food Organization (WFP) are parked in a location given as northern Gaza Strip, in this handout image released on 12 March 2024. Photo: Israeli Army Handout/Handout via REUTERS
Hamas-Israel war

UN uses new land route from Israel to reach northern Gaza

Palestinian children queue as they wait to collect drinking water, amid shortages of drinking water, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip January 4, 2024. REUTERS/Saleh Salem
Hamas-Israel war

Embattled UN agency warns its aid operation in Gaza 'collapsing', condemns aid halt

Palestinians, who fled their houses amid Israeli strikes, take shelter at a tent camp at a United Nations-run centre, after Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move south, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 26, 2023. REUTERS
World+Biz

UN needs $46.4 billion for aid in 'bleak' 2024

Photo: Collected
Middle East

UN agencies 'alarmed' at scale of Jenin raid, concerned about access

Smoke rises from the tarmac of Khartoum International Airport as a fire burns, in Khartoum, Sudan April 17, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. Abdullah Abdel Moneim/via REUTERS
Africa

UN says aid trucks looted in 'volatile' Sudan, urges safe passage

UN to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees, citing fund shortfall
World+Biz

UN to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees, citing fund shortfall

Quake halts UN cross-border aid to Syria, unclear when will resume
World+Biz

Quake halts UN cross-border aid to Syria, unclear when will resume

UN’s $32 million in cash arrives in Kabul
South Asia

UN’s $32 million in cash arrives in Kabul

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a news conference following talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo
South Asia

UN chief pleads with US, World Bank to unlock Afghanistan funds

A boy sells food in a park in Kabul, Afghanistan October 22, 2021. Photo :Reuters
South Asia

UN seeks record $4.4 bln in aid for Afghanistan's future

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's deputy leader and negotiator, and other delegation members attend the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2021. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
South Asia

Taliban say UN promises aid after meeting with officials in Kabul