A newly published United Nations report describes 2020 as a year of setbacks for the Palestinians, their institutions, and their economy owing to the COVID-19 pandemic and an unprecedented fiscal crisis. The report highlights that during the first COVID-19 lockdown last spring, around 150,000 Palestinians lost their jobs, and similarly large negative impacts are expected …
UN: Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in Humsa ‘raises a real risk of forcible transfer’
Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Lynn Hastings, said yesterday that Israel’s demolition of Palestinian homes in Humsa “raises a real risk of forcible transfer.” In a statement, Hastings said: “I visited the community of Humsa – Al Baqai’a which is situated some hundreds of metres into a firing zone in the Northern West …
Hundreds of thousands of people struggle with hunger in northern Nigeria
Rhoda Dia, Director of the Resistant Food Security Project of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) – Global Environment Facility (GEF), said that Nigeria is facing acute food insecurity due to the ongoing security problems for years. Pointing out that the increasing insecurity in the country has resulted in poverty and economic crises, Dia said …
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UN Chief: Humanitarian Catastrophe Looming in Afghanistan
The U.N. secretary-general is warning that a “humanitarian catastrophe looms” in Afghanistan, where nearly half the population needs assistance to survive. “On the day Afghanistan enters a new phase I want to express my grave concern at the deepening humanitarian and economic crisis in the country and the threat of basic services collapsing completely,” Antonio …
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S.Sudan: 100,000+ could go hungry as UN suspends food aid
Over 100,000 people are staring hunger in the face following the suspension of food assistance by the World Food Program (WFP) in South Sudan, the UN agency warned Monday. The WFP said that due to funding shortfall from donors it will start suspending monthly food rations starting in October until next year for 106,000 internally …
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Syria not fit for safe, dignified return of refugees: UN report
Syria is not fit for the safe and dignified returns of refugees and this year’s upsurge in fighting and the return to violence are causes for alarm, said the latest report of the UN Syria Commission of Inquiry released Tuesday. “One decade in, the parties to the conflict continue to perpetrate war crimes and crimes …
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UN updates Syria war death toll, says 350,000 ‘certainly an undercount’
More than 350,000 people have been killed in over 10 years of conflict in Syria, but the tally is “certainly an undercount,” the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday. “We have compiled a list of 350,209 identified individuals killed in the conflict in Syria between March 2011 to March 2021,” Michelle Bachelet told …
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Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ – 10,000 children now killed or maimed
Yemen’s humanitarian crisis continues to be “the world’s worst” according to Mr. Elder, who said that it “represents a tragic convergence of four threats: a violent and protracted conflict, economic devastation, social services on the brink of collapse, including health, nutrition, water sanitation, education, protection; and a critically underfunded UN system”. According to UNICEF, more …
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UN: Israel demolished 22 Palestinian homes in two weeks
In the report prepared by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), information was presented about Israel’s destruction and confiscation of Palestinian property in East Jerusalem and the West Bank within two weeks. The report included information that the Israeli authorities demolished or confiscated 22 Palestinian homes on the grounds that …
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9.4 million people are ‘living their worst nightmare’ in northern Ethiopia due to ongoing conflict
The number of people in need of humanitarian food assistance across northern Ethiopia has spiked as a direct result of ongoing conflict, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday. “Today, 9.4 million people are living their worst nightmare,” Tomson Phiri, the agency’s spokesperson, told journalists in Geneva. 80 per cent ‘behind battle …
