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The U.N. is warning that 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region face severe hunger in the next three months

It cites the effects of Russia’s war in Ukraine, COVID-19 pandemic, climate-induced shocks and rising costs as reasons.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned that the absence of peace and a long-term ceasefire agreement in Yemen will pose additional challenges this year at all levels. The OHCA underlined in its 2022 overview on Yemen’s humanitarian needs that violations of international humanitarian…

The recent returnees include women with children and older persons, the UN aid coordination office said.

The U.N. humanitarian office (OCHA) plans aid convoys to the Ukrainian rebel regions of Luhansk and Donetsk next week as it seeks to shift aid as fighting moves east, a spokesperson told a press briefing on Friday.

A new front in Ethiopia's war in the Afar region is imperilling efforts to get enemies to sit down to peace talks, three regional officials and three diplomats said, and a ceasefire declared last week may have been breached in some places.

With communications disrupted and movement restricted, details about the horror that is unfolding in Mariupol come as anecdotes, uncertain estimates and unverifiable claims. WARNING: This story contains content which may be distressing for some readers.

Two Syrian infant girls have died from harsh winter weather in northwest Syria where snow and rain have destroyed the tents of hundreds of displaced families, the United Nations said Tuesday. "A seven-day-old girl and a two-month-old girl have died from the cold in Idlib province," the UN's humanitarian agency…

The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen has said that media reports about it targeting a detention center in Yemen’s Saada province are false. "The Coalition will inform the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Yemen (OCHA) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on the…