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Haiti: $720 million plan to support millions facing gangs, hunger and cholera

·April 16, 2023·1 min read

The 2023 funding appeal is the largest for the Caribbean country since the devastating 2010 earthquake and more than double the amount requested last year. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) said the number of Haitians who require aid to survive doubled over the past five years to 5.2 million,...

Humanitarians launch $877 million plan for Burkina Faso

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·April 10, 2023·1 min read

The funding will support some 3.1 million people, as the West African country continues to face the worst humanitarian crisis in its history. Armed group activity, and military operations, have led to widespread displacement, with nearly two million citizens uprooted. Human rights abuses and violations, and political instability – including...

Pakistan: 10 million deprived of safe drinking water in flood-affected areas

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·March 22, 2023·1 min read

The crisis has left families in the flood-affected areas with no choice but to use potentially contaminated water. “Safe drinking water is not a privilege, it is a basic human right”, said UNICEF Representative in Pakistan, Abdullah Fadil. “Yet, every day, millions of girls and boys in Pakistan are fighting...

190 million children at risk from water-related crises: UNICEF

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·March 20, 2023·3 min read

The study, released on Monday ahead of the historic UN Water Conference, reviewed household access to WASH services, the burden of WASH-attributable deaths among children under five, and exposure to climate and environmental hazards, revealing where children face the biggest threat, and where investment in solutions is desperately needed to...

Central Sahel: Lives of 10 million children on the line as conflict rages

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·March 17, 2023·3 min read

“Brutal” armed conflict has left 10 million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger in need of humanitarian assistance – more than double the number in 2020, UNICEF warned in a new report. And hostilities spilling over into neighbouring countries, are putting an extra four million children at risk. “The conflict may...

To save a million species, World Wildlife Day underscores crucial role of partnerships

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·March 3, 2023·2 min read

“One million species teeter on the brink of extinction, due to habitat destruction, fossil fuel pollution and the worsening climate crisis. We must end this war on nature,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned in his message for the Day. The scores of species of fauna and flora under threat from...

Refugee agency appeals for $137 million to help displaced in Horn of Africa

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·March 1, 2023·2 min read

Today in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, more than eight million people require food assistance and around 332,000 “urgently need food, otherwise their lives are at risk”, said UNHCR spokesperson Olga Sarrado. A full eight in 10 of the displaced are women and children, the UNHCR official continued, while UN migration agency, IOM, warned...

Ukraine: 18 million need support as war enters second year

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·February 25, 2023·4 min read

“Since the start of the full-scale war we, along with our humanitarian partners in Ukraine, have made every effort to ramp up operations to provide life-saving support to those who need it most,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York. Last year, thousands of convoys delivered vital supplies...

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...

Horn of Africa: $84 million appeal to support migrants along risky route to Yemen

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·February 20, 2023·1 min read

The Regional Migrant Response Plan, launched this week, will address the dire needs and protection risks facing people along the treacherous Eastern Route towards the Arabian Peninsula. Other objectives include scaling-up delivery of lifesaving and resilience-building initiatives and implementing long-term sustainable solutions for both migrants and host communities. Dangerous journeys ...

78 million children don’t go to school at all, warns UN chief in call for action

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·February 16, 2023·4 min read

Lending his support to a call for more funding for education in emergencies spearheaded by the UN global fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) the UN chief insisted in a video message that no-one should be denied their chance to learn. A full 222 million children today experience blighted education today, Mr. Guterres...

Guterres calls on countries to fully fund $397 million quake appeal for Syria

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·February 14, 2023·2 min read

António Guterres told reporters outside the Security Council in New York that aid “must get through from all sides” and the funding would cover an initial period of three months. He said a similar appeal is being finalised for survivors across the border in Türkiye. ‘Immense’ need In the immediate aftermath of...