In quake-stricken Nepal, ’emergency is not over yet,’ warns senior UN relief official
24 July 2015 – Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering country said today. “The emergency is not over yet,” warned Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator in […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
23 July 2015 – Syria’s food production in 2015 remains at 40 per cent below its pre-crisis levels, impacting the price of bread, which has spiralled by 87 per cent, and shrinking poultry production by half, according to a United Nations agency report released today that warns that “the risk of irreversible damage to the […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
13 July 2015 – Syrian children are becoming increasingly vulnerable to water borne illnesses amid peaking summer temperatures and dwindling supplies of safe water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today. “The situation is alarming particularly for children who are susceptible to water borne diseases,” Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s Representative in Syria reported in a […]
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Syrian refugee numbers pass four million as war rages on, UN
9 July 2015 – The exodus spawned by the four-year long Syrian conflict has now become the United Nations refugee agency’s largest crisis in almost a quarter of a century and risks deteriorating even further as fighting in the country shows no sign of abating. In a news release issued earlier today, the Office of […]
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