Press releases and statements

Damages to the water network and power cuts left an additional 4.6 million people across Ukraine without adequate access to clean water (Lviv, 15 April 2022): More than seven weeks of intense...

I am deeply saddened by the deaths of at least two aid workers who were killed, together with five of their relatives, during an attack that hit the office of the non-governmental organization...

About 2.4 million people are in crisis or emergency phases of food insecurity; 500,000 children are out of school; almost two million people are displaced and the country hosts 470,000 refugees.

Relief projects in six African countries and Yemen will receive support as the spillover effects of the Ukrainian conflict threaten to drive millions even closer to famine.

"This is a year of unprecedented humanitarian needs and hunger but I implore the world not to turn its back on Somalia or wait until it’s too late. Millions of lives are at stake" - El-Khidir Daloum.

Abuja, 11 April 2022 - US$351 million is urgently needed by the UN and partners to intervene and save lives in North-East Nigeria as underlined by the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office...

(Dnipro, 5 April 2022): Today, the United Nations and humanitarian partners delivered eight trucks of critical supplies for people in the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine’s Luhanska oblast...

Sana’a, 4 April 2022 – The humanitarian community in Yemen has welcomed the commitment by the parties to the conflict to the UN-brokered two-month truce in Yemen. If effectively implemented, the...

(Dnipro, 31 March 2022): Today the United Nations and humanitarian partners have delivered supplies for thousands of people in the encircled city of Sumy, including children and hospital patients,...

An estimated 8.3 million people, including refugees, are set to experience severe food insecurity by the peak of the lean season from May-July. Severe flooding for a fourth year in a row is expected.