Aid

News Hour: IOM delivered a consignment of non-food aid to communities most affected by Hurricane Matthew in Cuba’s Guantanamo province. The aid consisted of 820 mattresses that will be distributed to the worst affected families in...

News Hour: IOM teams are now providing lifesaving humanitarian assistance, including emergency medical support, to displaced and conflict-affected families in insecure and hard-to-reach areas of South Sudan. Response teams are currently operating in the Greater Equatoria...

News Hour In the single largest humanitarian aid delivery in eastern Mosul since the current conflict began, the World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday provided food, dignity kits, water...

News Hour: The world’s poorest people will continue to be blocked from opportunities for jobs and wealth creation unless the World Bank radically reforms, International Development Secretary Priti Patel will say in Washington DC this weekend....

News Hour: The U.S. Agency for International Development Oceans and Fisheries Partnership (USAID Oceans) and California-based Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch® launched a partnership to improve the traceability of seafood products entering the North American market....

News Hour: Over 90,000 Iraqis have been displaced in the Mosul Corridor as military operations continue in preparedness for the liberation of Mosul. This includes over 82,600 IDPs who have been displaced from Salah al-Din (Baiji...

News Hour: The Boko Haram conflict affecting the Lake Chad Basin area, particularly in northeast Nigeria, has resulted in large scale displacement and a significant protection crisis. In Nigeria alone, over 2.2 million people are internally...

News Hour: IOM and the Association of Municipalities of Honduras (AMHON) have signed this week a letter of understanding to strengthen the capacities of local Honduran actors in the care and reintegration of migrant children and...

News Hour: USAID’s Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) has confirmed a new contribution of USD 2.3 million to strengthen IOM’s assistance to conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)....

News Hour: More than 300,000 civilians in Aleppo and an estimated 60,000 in the Manbij area, Syria, have been cut off from aid in the last three weeks, marking a shameful deterioration since the International Syria...