KABUL, Afghanistan, December 27, 2025 (ENS) – Food insecurity threatening lives and livelihoods is on the rise in Afghanistan as winter closes in. More than 17 million Afghans are starving in freezing temperatures as the scale and severity of hunger and malnutrition deepens, warns the United Nations World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian organization. […]
NEW YORK, New York, December 14, 2024 (ENS) – Again this year, as it does every year, the New York-based nonprofit International Rescue Committee has issued an Emergency Watchlist spotlighting […]
GAZA, April 26, 2024 (ENS) – Scorching temperatures across Gaza have magnified the daily suffering faced by the area’s displaced people and renewed fears of disease outbreaks due to a lack of clean water and waste disposal, United Nations humanitarians said on Thursday. […]
NEW YORK, New York, November 10, 2023 (ENS) – World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus today briefed an Emergency Meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the health situation in Gaza, as Israeli forces attacked hospitals, forcing thousands of civilians sheltering there to flee. […]
BONN, Germany, October 11, 2021 (ENS) – Ahead of the pivotal United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 26, in Glasgow in November, winners of the 10th anniversary UN Global Climate Action Awards from African surfers to the … […]
GAZA CITY, May 28, 2021 (ENS) – During the past week, close to 100,000 people were displaced in Gaza due to escalating violence and airstrikes between Israel and Hamas and many are now hungry. At least 2,800 families have lost […]
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