El Niño is firmly established and is forecast to reach very strong intensity. WMO forecasts indicate a nearly 100 per cent likelihood that it will persist through February 2027, with the event ...

In Kherson, a front-line city in southern Ukraine, the threats from above are changing life below. People take immense risks to go about their daily lives, while basements and underground shelters ...

KATHMANDU, 4 September 2026 — The United Nations and humanitarian partners today launched a US$49.6 million flash appeal to deliver life-saving relief to over 84,000 people affected by catastrophic ...

(Geneva/New York, 19 August 2026): 2025 set another grim record for violence against aid workers, with 907 colleagues killed, injured or kidnapped, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian ...

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Humanitarian response expands in Jonglei State after local authorities provide access assurances. An Inter-Cluster Coordination Group mission to Akobo West Payam finds more than 35,000 ...

"Everything around me collapsed, but where I was standing, nothing fell," said 24-year-old Emily Camargo. Her story is one of thousands in north-central Venezuela, where two earthquakes, measuring ...

Humanitarian organizations in Afghanistan are facing a growing challenge in responding to widespread needs with increasingly limited resources. Across the country, millions of people are struggling ...

Two days after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck 32 km offshore west of Maasim, Sarangani Province, along the Cotabato Trench, the humanitarian impact continues to unfold across Mindanao. The ...

The Sahel remains the epicenter of a growing crisis, where violence, conflict, climate shocks and political instability combine, leaving millions trapped in vulnerability. The crisis has internally ...

As of December 2025, OCHA documented 925 movement obstacles that permanently or intermittently restrict the movement of 3.4 million Palestinians across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. This is ...

The Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) is designed to improve the delivery of humanitarian assistance and protection through better preparation, prioritising, steering and monitoring the collective ...