On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) determined that the outbreak of Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda constituted a ...

Vance, which peaked as a Category 3 hurricane around 23 October, weakened to a tropical depression on 29 October without making landfall and is expected to dissipate within a day, but its remnants are ...

About 50,000 people have crossed into Moyale town in Kenya due to renewed intercommunal fighting in neighbouring Ethiopia, as of 28 October. Humanitarian needs are increasing rapidly, with food, water ...

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says that the UN and its partners keep bringing limited supplies into the Gaza Strip and delivering them to people in need ...

Thank you very much, Secretary-General [Celeste Saulo, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)] and thank you, colleagues, for coming together at such short notice. I think you can understand from ...

The reporting period is 29 September – 12 October 2026 unless otherwise specified. Israeli airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued across Gaza, reportedly causing civilian casualties, including ...

Humanitarian partners in Ethiopia report that four World Food Programme trucks carrying 90 metric tonnes of nutrition supplies for the treatment of acute malnutrition arrived yesterday in Mekelle, the ...

The strengthening El Niño is driving contrasting climate conditions across the Pacific. Most countries, particularly Fiji, Solomon Islands,Vanuatu, Tonga, Niue, Samoa, Cook Islands and Palau, are ...

The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, said in a social media post that in northern Ethiopia, “our teams are working to get life-saving ...

(New York/Geneva, 2 October 2026) The United Nations today allocated US$160 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support life-saving assistance in 12 of the world’s most ...

The UN today released US$160 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to support life-saving assistance in 12 of the world’s most underfunded humanitarian crises across Africa, Asia, ...