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WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts

6 days 20 hours ago Breadcrumb Home WHO warns of severe disruptions to health services amid funding cuts 10 April 2025 WHO WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers opening remarks at the 156th session of the Executive Board. Recent funding cuts have caused “severe disruptions” to health services in almost three-quarters of all countries, according to the head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO), …

Sudan war: UNHCR chief stresses need to help refugee hosts in Chad

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Sudan war: UNHCR chief stresses need to help refugee hosts in Chad 09 April 2025 © UNFPA/Karel Prinsloo A girl carries water at the Farchana camp for Sudanese refugees in Chad. As the brutal war in Sudan nears the two-year mark, thousands of people continue to flee into neighbouring countries, including Chad, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said on Wednesday…

Fear and uncertainty are daily staples for Gaza’s most vulnerable

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Fear and uncertainty are daily staples for Gaza’s most vulnerable 09 April 2025 © UNFPA/Bisan Ouda A nine months pregnant woman is treated at a hospital in Gaza (file). In Gaza, ongoing Israeli military operations and the aid blockade have continued to add to daily fears and hardships being faced by those about to give birth in the devastated enclave…

Northern Thai communities put nature before profit

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home Northern Thai communities put nature before profit 09 April 2025 © UNU-EHS/Molly Ferrill Dense forests cover the mountains of northwestern Thailand. The people of Mae Hong Son and Tak provinces in northwestern Thailand have lived in balance with nature for hundreds of years and many of them depend on rivers and forests for their livelihoods.…

World News in Brief: East Jerusalem schools told to close, Guterres saddened by Santo Domingo deaths, DR Congo and Haiti updates

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home World News in Brief: East Jerusalem schools told to close, Guterres saddened by Santo Domingo deaths, DR Congo and Haiti updates 09 April 2025 © UNRWA UNRWA schools in Gaza are providing accommodation for displaced families. Six schools run by the UN Palestine refugee agency (UNRWA) in East Jerusalem have been issued “illegal closure orders” after being forcibly entered by Israeli security…

South Sudan: Conflict and hunger push millions to the brink

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home South Sudan: Conflict and hunger push millions to the brink 09 April 2025 © UNICEF/Mark Naftali A girl walks to a water collection point in Renk town in South Sudan's strife-ridden Upper Nile state. (file) Hunger in South Sudan’s northeast has reached a critical tipping point, with nearly 7.7 million people facing severe food insecurity as conflict escalates, the UN’s emergency food…

March proves deadly month for civilians in Ukraine

1 week ago Breadcrumb Home March proves deadly month for civilians in Ukraine 09 April 2025 © UNOCHA/Yurii Veres A woman stands in the ruins of her house in Mykolaiv in the south of Ukraine. More than three years on from the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian civilians continue to face the devastating consequences of war, with March 2025 proving to be another deadly month…

Dangers grow for Myanmar quake survivors, health system 'overwhelmed'

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Dangers grow for Myanmar quake survivors, health system 'overwhelmed' 08 April 2025 © WFP/Arete Buildings have been levelled across central Myanmar by the 7.7 magnitude earthquake. Patients at one hospital in Sagaing have been placed in a car park in 40°C heat. because it is too dangerous to enter the facility. In earthquake-shattered central Myanmar, people are sleeping in the…

Ukraine crisis: ‘Even wars have rules,’ UN relief chief tells Security Council

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home Ukraine crisis: ‘Even wars have rules,’ UN relief chief tells Security Council 08 April 2025 © UNOCHA/Yurii Veres A woman stands outside her bomb-damaged home in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Nearly 13 million people in Ukraine urgently need humanitarian aid as displacement, psychological trauma and the destruction of essential services continues to take a devastating toll, the UN relief chief warned on…

DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda

1 week 1 day ago Breadcrumb Home DR Congo crisis: 41,700 refugees have fled violence to Uganda 08 April 2025 © UNHCR/Yonna Tukundane Refugees from the DR Congo arrive at a reception centre in Kabazana, Uganda. Some 41,000 refugees have crossed from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) into Uganda since January, many of them having witnessed killings, “sexual violence and other traumatic experience during their flight…