Unprecedented humanitarian crisis in Mali revealed in new report

Escalating violence and insecurity in Mali have sparked an unprecedented humanitarian crisis, rendering 3.9 million people in need of assistance and protection – an increase of 700,000 since the beginning of the year, the UN said on Thursday.

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Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region

08 Feb 2022

Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people already displaced over past years, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday.

Around 2 million facing food insecurity across Lebanon

19 Jan 2023

Some two million people in Lebanon, including 1.29 million Lebanese residents and 700,000 Syrian refugees, are suffering some form of food insecurity as a result of the multiple crises afflicting the country, with the situation expected to get worse in the months ahead, UN agencies said on Thursday.

World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa

02 Oct 2024

A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people – one in two of them children – the UN migration office, IOM, said on Wednesday.