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

·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....

Ukraine dam disaster: Lack of clean water, spread of disease, major risks

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·June 7, 2023·3 min read

Homes have been flooded, forcing many to leave, and access to water, specifically clean water, is emerging as a major challenge. In an interview with UN News, International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesperson Olivia Headon, speaking from Kyiv, said the agency along with other humanitarian partners, had been rushing clean...

India train disaster: UN chief deeply saddened by loss of life

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·June 4, 2023·1 min read

Latest news reports said the death toll is at least 275. More than 1,000 people were hospitalised but close to 800 of those involved in the crash have reportedly been discharged. According to reports, railway officials and India’s minister in charge of the vast network, said on Sunday that a...

Avoiding disaster in a dangerous world

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·May 13, 2023·6 min read

For Malawians, Cyclone Freddy was an unmitigated disaster. In March this year, the storm ripped through the African country twice during its record-breaking month-long destructive rampage through southern Africa. The unprecedented duration of the extreme weather event would have been difficult for any country to deal with, but for Malawi,...

UN agencies brace for disaster as Cyclone Mocha intensifies in Bay of Bengal

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·May 13, 2023·3 min read

The very severe cyclonic storm is quickly strengthening in the Bay of Bengal, threatening the region with violent winds, flooding, and landslides that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of the world’s most vulnerable people, said Clare Nullis, of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The agency’s regional specialized meteorological centre...

Haiti: Amid rising hunger levels, ‘world cannot wait for disaster before it acts’, WFP warns

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·March 27, 2023·2 min read

“Haiti can’t wait,” said Jean-Martin Bauer, World Food Programme (WFP) Country Director for the country. “We cannot wait for the scale of the problem to be expressed in deaths before the world responds, but that is where we are heading.” Half the population – 4.9 million people – are now...

1.5 million now homeless in Türkiye after quake disaster, warn UN development experts

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·February 21, 2023·3 min read

“This makes this clearly the largest earthquake disaster in Türkiye’s history and perhaps the largest natural disaster the country has ever faced,” said Louisa Vinton, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Türkiye Resident Representative. Two further earthquakes measuring 6.4 and 5.8 on the Richter Scale killed six more on the Türkiye-Syria border...

First UN aid convoy reaches Syria’s quake-hit northwest since disaster

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·February 10, 2023·3 min read

“Aid, life-saving aid, is desperately needed by civilians wherever they are irrespective of borders and boundaries,” he told journalists in Geneva. “We need it urgently, through the fastest, most direct, and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.” According to UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, six trucks carrying...

Earthquake disaster: ‘We must put people first’ urges Guterres in race to save lives

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·February 9, 2023·3 min read

In a heartfelt appeal based on his years of visiting the devastated area, as Secretary-General and previously as head of the UN refugee agency UNHCR, Antonio Guterres said that what had been a “centre of solidarity is now an epicentre of suffering.” ‘Nightmare on top of nightmare’ “People are facing nightmare...

Earthquake disaster latest: fresh snow compounds Syrians’ misery

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·February 8, 2023·4 min read

“We have already a very vulnerable situation; people (are) already vulnerable, not capable of taking care of themselves…and all of a sudden comes this,” said El-Mostafa Benlamlih, UN Resident Coordinator for Syria. Progress lost “All the achievements we had before, anybody who had a small business has lost that business, anybody...

Türkiye, Syria quake latest: full scale of disaster still unfolding, UN humanitarians warn

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·February 7, 2023·4 min read

According to the Government of Türkiye, at least 3,381 people died and more than 20,000 were injured after a 7.8 magnitude quake struck close to the southern city of Gaziantep early on Monday, followed by another 7.5 magnitude earthquake several hours later. Almost 6,000 buildings have reportedly collapsed in the...