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The World Bank has agreed to provide the UN's World Food Program with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday. The program, whose funding comes from the European Union, United Kingdom, and several other nations, aims…

The World Bank has agreed to provide the U.N.'s World Food Programme with $100 million for an “emergency safety net project” to address food insecurity in Sudan, it said in a statement on Thursday.

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revealed in a recent report a new reduction in food rations distributed to millions of needy people in Yemen. By the end of June, the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) remained under-funded, forcing aid organizations to reduce or close…

The United Nations has been forced to move humanitarian aid and workers across Haiti by air and ship because gang violence has become so bad in the capital Port-au-Prince, an aid official said on Tuesday.

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The World Food Programme said it has further reduced rations in Yemen, where millions face hunger, due to critical funding gaps, global inflation and knock-on effects of the Ukraine conflict.

Relief organizations operating in Yemen’s Marib governorate, which is hosting the largest gathering of refugees, are being accused of bias and a lack of transparency with calls urging them to switch partners over what was labeled as “grave and continued conduct violations.” A local official held those organizations responsible for…

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi tweeted that the first consignment of India's earthquake relief assistance for the people of Afghanistan has reached Kabul.

Health ministry says aid has begun to arrive to the area affected by earthquake that killed at least 1,000 people.

Afghan authorities have called off the search for survivors of an earthquake that killed 1000 people.