The Latest Breaking News from Martin Griffiths

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine

India warned that linkages between proscribed outfits such as Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed and provocative statements by other terror groups pose a direct threat to the region’s peace and stability

Countries should restart some development aid for impoverished Afghanistan that was halted a year ago when the Taliban seized power, the U.N. aid chief said on Monday, as the United States told Russia and China to "put your money where your mouth is."

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Work to resume grain exports from Ukraine has been overshadowed by the deaths of Ukrainian PoWs in a strike that Moscow and Kyiv accuse each other of doing.

Asharq Al-Awsat has asked Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths about the three biggest threats the world’s poorest collectively face. His answer was: “Climate, conflict and cost-of-living. And they’re all connected.” When asked about double standards in refugee treatment, the UN official told the newspaper in…

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The earthquake killed at least 1,000 people and destroyed or damaged about 10,000 homes in Afghanistan’s remote east.

Senior UN officials say the earthquake in Afghanistan has added another emergency facing the country, which is also confronting its worst drought in 30 years and massive poverty

Afghanistan's ruling Taliban are resisting efforts by the United Nations to help get humanitarian funding into the country and are interfering in the delivery of aid, U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Thursday.

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths "had frank and constructive discussions" with Russian officials in Moscow on facilitating exports of Ukraine grain from Black Sea ports, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.