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The World Health Organization (WHO) warned that floods significantly raise the risk of vector-borne, food-borne and water-borne diseases, urging communities to prevent mosquito bites, ensure food safety and use safe drinking water wherever possible.

UNICEF also called for more humanitarian aid and commercial traffic to come in to stabilise the situation and reduce the desperation of the population.

Despite being the closest inhabited island to the epicentre of the earthquake in December 2004 that caused the largest tsunami so far in this...

Obstacles to aid delivery include lack of political will, the regular closing of the two crossing points into the enclave, as well as insecurity...

Ongoing hostilities across the Gaza Strip have been “particularly intense” in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians warned on Monday, as the...

According to data from the non-governmental organization Humanitarian Outcomes, more than 140 aid workers were killed in the line of duty last year – the highest number...

In the 50 days since the Russian army invaded Ukraine, 870,000 people had fled the country, most of them women and children, besides elderly...