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News Hour: As a devastating drought grips Somalia, UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that only a massive and immediate scale-up of humanitarian assistance can help the country avoid falling into...

News Hour: Joint assessment finds that conflict has left more than two-thirds of people in Yemen struggling to feed themselves SANA’A – The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million in...

News Hour: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday defended his choice of former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad to be the UN peace envoy to Libya after the United States blocked the appointment. The decision to...

News Hour: As part of its annual global humanitarian appeal, UNICEF is seeking $42 million to deliver life-saving aid for children in emergencies in two countries in the East Asia and Pacific region. The two East...

News Hour: This week IOM coordinated the first official UN mission to Yemen’s Lahj governorate since the outbreak of the conflict in March 2015. Lahj is located in south-western Yemen and has experienced intense fighting. During...

News Hour: Myanmar’s four-month military crackdown on Rohingya Muslims has likely killed hundreds of people, the UN said on Friday in a report detailing horrific abuses allegedly committed against civilians in Rakhine state. “The ‘area clearance...

News Hour: 48 million children living through some of the world’s worst conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies will benefit from UNICEF’s 2017 appeal, which was launched today. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq, from South Sudan...

News Hour: In the midst of one of the world’s worst hunger crises, Yemen’s farmers urgently need support so they can grow more food and provide young people with jobs, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today transferred US$9.8 million onto the electronic food assistance cards which it provides to Syrian refugees in Lebanon. This funding, from Canada, will benefit more than 310,000...

News Hour: The cholera outbreak that hit Haiti after Hurricane Matthew slammed the island has been contained but persists due to lack of funding, according to the United Nations. An epidemic of the waterborne disease —...