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Myanmar: Military’s obstruction of humanitarian aid could be international crime

·July 1, 2023·1 min read

The chief of OHCHR’s Myanmar team, James Rodehaver, explained that since their February 2021 coup, the country’s military rulers have been instilling a “climate of fear” to subjugate the civilian population, restricting aid access and using “all means” at their disposal to clamp down on civil society. Brutal tactics He...

Sudan’s Darfur spiralling into ‘humanitarian calamity’: UN aid chief

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·June 16, 2023·1 min read

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths warned in a statement issued late on Thursday night that conditions in the province were particularly dire: babies dying in hospitals, children and mothers suffering from severe malnutrition, camps for displaced persons burned down and sexual violence on the rise. He deplored spreading inter-communal...

UN suspends food assistance as Ethiopia wrestles with aid diversions

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·June 11, 2023·1 min read

“Food diversion is absolutely unacceptable,” said WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain, following a joint statement made by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID announcing their commitment to addressing deeply concerning revelations of aid diversion. “While we will temporarily halt food aid assistance in Ethiopia, nutrition assistance to children, pregnant...

Dam disaster: UN ‘committed to reaching all Ukrainians in need’, says top aid official

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·June 8, 2023·3 min read

Denise Brown, Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, offered reassurance to Dmytro Kuleba that UN agencies and other humanitarian partners have been delivering water, food and cash to those displaced or suffering the impact of the dam breach, and collapse of the crucial hydroelectric plant in the southeast region near the city of Kherson....

Sudan: UN and partners scramble to supply aid amid fragile ceasefire

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·May 28, 2023·2 min read

Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents at the regular noon briefing that the opportunity to provide services and support to the millions of Sudanese who are suffering due to the six weeks of fighting between national army forces and their powerful rival militia, the RSF, was only feasible in areas where the...

Ukraine: UN delivers aid to millions, as civilian suffering continues

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·May 27, 2023·1 min read

Humanitarians reached 5.4 million people in Ukraine with desperately needed aid by April this year, including cash assistance, food, health services, and medicines, the UN said on Friday....

WFP plan aims to prevent further food aid diversion in Ethiopia

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·May 24, 2023·1 min read

WFP had paused distributions in the restive Tigray region in the north after finding evidence of significant supplies on sale in local markets, and immediately launched an investigation. Over 20 million people are in dire need of food assistance in Ethiopia, where communities continue to be affected by the impact...

WFP pauses food distribution in Ethiopia following ‘significant diversion’ of aid

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·May 4, 2023·1 min read

“WFP takes this issue extremely seriously and will not tolerate any interference in its distribution of critical food aid to the most vulnerable women, men and children”, the agency said in a statement released on Wednesday night. The agency has already launched a comprehensive investigation, and “taken swift action to...

Sudan: ‘Secure and immediate access’ needed for lifesaving aid, urges Guterres

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·May 3, 2023·3 min read

António Guterres was speaking to journalists in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, where he will be chairing a meeting of chief executives from across the whole UN system. Since violence erupted in Sudan on 15 April, more than 334,000 have likely been uprooted and more 100,000 people have fled to neighbouring...

Sudan: UN aid operation continues amid dire humanitarian conditions

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·April 26, 2023·5 min read

Ten days of fighting between rival military forces have had a devastating impact on the country’s population. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) warned that people are lacking food, water, medicines and fuel, power is limited, and the prices of essential items as well as transport have skyrocketed. OCHA spokesperson...

WFP chief puts hold on Sudan aid operations, following death of 3 staff in unrest

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·April 16, 2023·1 min read

According to a statement attributable to the Executive Director of the UN agency, Cindy McCain, the workers were carrying out life-saving duties in Kabkabiya, North Darfur. In a separate incident on Saturday, a WFP-managed UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) aircraft was significantly damaged at Khartoum International airport during an exchange...

Chad: Aid for displaced desperately needed to avoid hunger

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·April 15, 2023·2 min read

Speaking from Ndjamena, Pierre Honnorat, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad, said that as the country moves into the lean season in-between harvests, food assistance could grind to a complete halt. “Chad is surrounded by countries with crises and hosting some 600,000 refugees from Sudan, Niger,...