humanitarian crisis

Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) attends a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 3, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
Middle East

UN relief chief urges action 'to prevent genocide' in Gaza

Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, demanded that Israel lift its aid blockade on Gaza, where its offensive has killed tens of thousands and reduced much of the...

Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
World+Biz

Sudan war enters 100th day as mediation attempts fail

Protesters hold up a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi and raise three-finger salutes, during a demonstration to mark the second anniversary of Myanmar's 2021 military coup, outside the Embassy of Myanmar in Bangkok, Thailand, February 1, 2023. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo
World+Biz

UN sheds light on humanitarian crisis in Myanmar

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

World 'failing' to protect civilians in combat zones, UN chief says

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World+Biz

Air strikes hammer Khartoum as army chief drops RSF foe from Sudan's ruling council

Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region and newly arrived ride their donkeys looking for space to temporarily settle, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Goungour, Chad May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
World+Biz

More than $3 bn needed for aid in Sudan, Sudanese refugees: UN

Smoke rises over buildings during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan April 17, 2023. REUTERS/Stringer
World+Biz

Heavy gunfire quickly shatters Sudan truce pushed by US

A man looks for food through piles of trash on the side of a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Ricardo Arduengo
World+Biz

What's driving Haiti's humanitarian crisis?

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Bangladesh

PM Hasina urges global solidarity to face looming humanitarian crisis caused by war

People react as an evacuation train with their relatives leaves from Kyiv to Lviv, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at Kyiv central train station, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 6, 2022. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
World+Biz

Ukraine accuses Russia of trying to manipulate world leaders on humanitarian corridors

A view shows the area near the regional administration building, which city officials said was hit by a missile attack, in central Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1 March, 2022. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

‘Russia in contact with UN on humanitarian issues in Ukraine’

A girl looks on among Afghan women lining up to receive relief assistance. Photo: Reuters
Thoughts

Afghan Women Aren’t Liberated by Humanitarian Catastrophe

Children pose for photographs in front of their tents at a camp for internally displaced families in Panjwai district of Kandahar province on March 31, 2021. JAVED TANVEER/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Bangladesh

Bangladesh to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghan people