Global Issues News Headlines for “Aid”

‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

Intensifying drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Sudan are disrupting electricity, water and fuel supplies, putting lives at risk and hampering the delivery of humanitarian aid, the UN’s top official in the country has warned.

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Air raid alerts and attacks on schools: the devastating face of education in Ukraine

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

Ukraine has sustained almost 2,000 attacks on education since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, with some 270 this year alone, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after a strike at a school being used to distribute aid.

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Ukraine: WFP provides hot meals to Oleshky evacuees as UN pushes to restore power before winter

2026-11-02T04:00:00-08:00

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to more than 400 people who were able to leave the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, during a brief local ceasefire.

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Ethiopia: Violence in the north is pushing health system to the brink, WHO chief warns

2026-11-02T04:00:00-08:00

The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for greater protection for civilians caught in conflict in northern Ethiopia following deadly drone strikes this past weekend.

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Ukraine: Oleshky ceasefire offers ‘hope’ for civilians as attacks on aid vehicles continue

2026-10-30T05:00:00-07:00

Each day the ceasefire in Oleshky holds means hope for civilians in the city, the UN’s top humanitarian official said, stressing that those wishing to leave must be able to do so safely and voluntarily.

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DR Congo: Hunger deepens for millions amid conflict, Ebola and climate shocks

2026-10-30T05:00:00-07:00

More than 28 million people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are not getting enough to eat and the number is expected to tick up in the coming months, according to the latest alert from the IPC global food security monitor.

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Yemen war makes reaching assistance too dangerous for many

2026-10-30T05:00:00-07:00

More than 280,000 people have now been displaced by fighting in Yemen and many vulnerable people are unable to access lifesaving relief because it is too dangerous to do so, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Friday.

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World News in Brief: 5 children killed in Sudan, Haiti hunger emergency, Yemen war update

2026-10-29T05:00:00-07:00

At least five children were killed and two others injured in a drone attack on a market in Nyala, in Sudan’s South Darfur state, on Monday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.

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Russia drone strike on Ukrainian railway station kills 13

2026-10-29T05:00:00-07:00

The UN’s top humanitarian official in Ukraine on Thursday condemned a Russian drone attack on the city of Dnipro that killed at least 13 civilians and injured 10 others at its main railway station.

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Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid trapped between drones and incarceration

2026-10-28T05:00:00-07:00

Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid live in constant fear of drone attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and of a wave of arbitrary arrests by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), UN-appointed independent investigators said on Wednesday.

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