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New York, Oct 14 (Just Earth News): Unless the deadly violence in Aleppo subsides, the United Nations will be unable to carry out its humanitarian responsibilities to victims of bombardments, shelling and attacks against civilians, UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria, Ramzy Ezzeldin Ramzy stressed on Thursday. more
At UN, European Union and member countries spotlight aid for refugees, conflict mediation

New York, Sept 22 (Just Earth News): Massive displacement across borders has highlighted the power of fear and conflict more clearly than any other challenge, but the European Union’s ...

Niger: After 4-day visit, senior UN aid official calls for greater global support for displaced

New York, Sept 16 (Just Earth News): Wrapping up a four-day mission in Niger, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Africa’s Sahel region has called on the international com ...

UN emergency fund releases $7 million to strengthen protection for Somalis

New York, Sept 10 (Just Earth News): To strengthen protection services to internally displaced people in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the Somalia Humanitarian Fund recently released $7 mil ...

UN food relief agency and partner to roll out €348 million EU cash aid to refugees in Turkey

New York, Sept 9 (Just Earth News): Following the European Union’s (EU)announcement on Thursday of a cash-transfer programme for the most vulnerable refugees in Turkey, the United N ...

Iraq: UN food relief agency’s supplies reach Qayyarah’s 30,000 people under 2-year siege

New York, Sept 6 (Just Earth News): The United Nations food relief agency has delivered urgently-needed aid to more than 30,000 people in and around the northern Iraqi town of Qayyarah in th ...

UN food relief agency needs $48 million for school meals programme in West and Central Africa

New York, Aug 30 (Just Earth News): The United Nations food relief agency on Tuesday warned that it urgently needs $48 million for its school meals assistance programme in West and Central A ...

UN teams bring aid to besieged Syrian people despite extreme challenges

New York, Aug 27 (Just Earth News): In the first full, completed, cross-line delivery via road in August, inter-agency convoys have reached some 75,000 people in al-Waer in Syria’s Ho ...

Aid convoys ‘ready’ to enter Aleppo; UN envoys await Russia-US talks on truce

New York, Aug 26 (Just Earth News): Reporting that the Russian Federation is backing a 48-hour humanitarian pause in and around Aleppo, senior United Nations envoys on the Syrian crisis on T ...

UN sounds alarm as 4.5 million people need food aid in Boko Haram-hit north-east Nigeria

New York, Aug 24 (Just Earth News): The number of people in need of food assistance in north-eastern Nigeria has nearly doubled to 4.5 million from March, according to a mid-August analysis ...