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'Brutal' funding cuts push UN to slash humanitarian operations

Millions of vulnerable people face heightened risk after the UN announced it would scale back aid programmes amid unprecedented global funding cuts. OCHA chief Tom Fletcher called for more solidarity to prevent needless suffering.

Radio France Internationale

UN Slashes Global Aid Plan Over 'Deepest Funding Cuts Ever'

The United Nations said Monday it was drastically scaling back its global humanitarian aid plans because of the "deepest funding cuts ever" -- leaving tens of millions of people facing dire straits.

International Business Times

Pensioners who challenged winter fuel payment decision in court lose case

Peter and Florence Fanning, from North Lanarkshire, lost their entitlement to financial support and became worried about paying their bills.

Evening Standard

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More mass casualties near Gaza food points as GHF says five staff killed

US-Israel logistics group claims workers were attacked by Hamas, while Israeli forces kill 22 people across the territory

The Guardian - UK

Aid cuts put vital work to protect millions in Ethiopia from climate crisis at risk

IN FOCUS: Programmes helping vulnerable communities in Ethiopia to deal with the financial shock of extreme weather and drought are under threat, writes Nick Ferris

The Independent UK

UN food agency appeals for $46 million to help 2 million Haitians facing severe hunger

The U.N. food agency is appealing for $46 million for the next six months to help about 2 million Haitians in dire need of food, including 8,500 at the worst catastrophic level of hunger

The Independent UK

Muslims look forward to the annual Eid feast. Many Africans are now struggling to afford it

As Eid al-Adha approaches, many Muslim families across west Africa are struggling to afford rams for the traditional sacrifice, with prices tripling in some areas due to inflation, insecurity, and economic policies

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Women working for UN in Kabul face stalking and death threats: ‘Don’t turn up tomorrow or you will be killed’

Taliban has denied involvement in what UN sources describe as a campaign of ‘coordinated harassment’

The Independent UK

Almost Half of All Haitians Are Without Food As UN Supplies Are 'Dwindling And Disappearing'

Haiti is one of five countries in the world facing catastrophic levels of hunger, according to the United Nations' food agency

Latin Times

At least five killed in attack on aid convoy in Sudan’s western Darfur region, UN says

Sudan was plunged into a war more than two years ago, when tensions between the army and its rival paramilitary RSF exploded with street battles in the capital of Khartoum that quickly spread across the country.

Euronews

Five UN food aid workers killed in Sudan ambush as hunger crisis deepens

Deadly attack on UN convoy in Sudan disrupts aid to hunger-stricken families in the war-torn country.

Al Jazeera

More than four million people have fled Sudan amid war, UN says

UN official says the ‘devastating milestone’ shows the damage of the displacement crisis after two years of fighting.

Al Jazeera

‘Multiple casualties’ reported after attack on UN aid convoy in Darfur

Trucks carrying food to famine-threatened city targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma in western Sudan

The Guardian - UK

Hungry Palestinians in Gaza block and offload dozens of UN food trucks

The U.N. food agency says Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have blocked and offloaded dozens of food trucks as desperation mounts following Israel’s monthslong blockade and airstrikes

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Salon

Trump destroyed USAID. What happens now?

State Department records show that aid cuts have led to violence and instability around the world

International Business Times

Hamas Says Examining New US Deal For Gaza

Palestinian militant group Hamas on Thursday said it was examining a new deal proposed by a US envoy, as rescuers said at least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip.

International Business Times

44 Killed In Israel Attacks In Gaza, After Food Warehouse Looted

At least 44 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, rescuers said, a day after a World Food Programme warehouse in the centre of the territory was looted by desperate Palestinians.

Euronews

At least two killed after crowd rushes UN warehouse in Gaza

It comes a day after Israeli forces opened fire near thousands of Palestinians after the crowd overwhelmed an aid centre.

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The Independent UK

Four Palestinians killed as starving Gazans storm UN warehouse amid spiralling hunger crisis

Two people crushed in chaos and two fatally shot but it’s not yet clear who fired the bullets

International Business Times

Thousands Storm Aid Warehouse In Gaza As Hunger Crisis Deepens

Thousands of desperate Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse in central Gaza on Wednesday, with the World Food Programme reporting two possible deaths in the tumult as Israel and the UN traded blame over the deepening hunger crisis.

Evening Standard

Netanyahu says all of Gaza will be under Israeli control by end of war

Netanyahu stressed the need to prevent a humanitarian crisis and unveiled a three-stage plan to get aid deliveries into Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s aid cuts blamed as food rations stopped for a million refugees in Uganda

UN World Food Programme says $50m is urgently needed amid fears that Uganda may now begin forced repatriations

Al Jazeera

‘We are suffering’: Displaced families bear burden of South Sudan conflict

More than 130,000 people have been displaced since fighting between gov’t and opposition forces escalated in February.

Euronews

UN agencies slash jobs, warn of impact to services amid US funding cuts, officials say

The cuts to the UN agencies underscore the impact of President Donald Trump's decision to pull the US back from its position as the world’s single largest aid donor.

The Independent UK

World Food Program and other UN aid agencies slash jobs amid US funding cuts, officials say

The World Food Program and the United Nations refugee agency will slash jobs because of funding cuts, mainly from the United States

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