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08 Aug 2015

Yemen: UN Humanitarian Coordinator speaks from Sa'adah

29 Jul 2015

UN aid chief O'Brien: message for the World Humanitarian Summit South & Central Asia consultation

27 Jul 2015

UN relief chief Stephen O'Brien witnesses first-hand the humanitarian situation in South Sudan

24 Jul 2015

Plan de réponse humanitaire au Mali 2015

24 Jul 2015

Timbuktu: a challenging return from exile

24 Jul 2015

Nepal: three months on, preparing for the harsh winter

22 Jul 2015

Snapshots of life in conflict-affected Sana'a

21 Jul 2015

In Nepal, preventing child trafficking in quake-affected districts

16 Jul 2015

"Millions of Yemenis in desperate need of assistance" - OCHA Yemen

14 Jul 2015

World Humanitarian Summit - Pacific Consultation

Abdessalam, 15 years old, was wounded in the head and abdomen by anti-aircraft bullets in Sana’a. "I was in the street with two kids and my elder brother when the anti-aircraft bullets fell back. We didn’t feel it until it came near us and exploded. A fragment hit me here (in the head), and another one in my abdomen." He is being treated at Al-Thawra hospital in Sana'a. Ongoing airstrikes, fighting, and anti-aircraft ordnance have been killing and wounding civilians for over three months in the capital and across the country. To date, more than 3,083 people have been killed and 14,324 have been injured across the country. Photo: OCHA / C. Cans, June 2015.

Because of the fuel shortages, most water pumps across the city are no longer working. Tap water has therefore become increasingly rare in Sana’a since March. The residents of the city can get water in the few public distribution points and humanitarian groups have started trucking in water to some neighbourhoods. Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

“I come here every few days with my family and my neighbours to fill jerry cans with water. The school closed shortly after the bombings started three months ago and I don't have much else to do,” says Haroon Huraibi (center with hose), a fifth grader from Sana’a. “Filling all the jerry cans usually takes three hours. The days we do not come here, I play volleyball with my friends, but there isn't much else to do.” Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

“Our neighbourhood gets water only one hour per week,” explains Sultan Mohammad (third man from the right, sitting). He is 35 years old and he lives in Noqum, a neighbourhood in the north of the capital. “We get 10 jerry cans per household which makes 200 litres that need to last three to four days.” Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

“Every five days we are allowed to fill up our car. The attendants take down the license plates to fight the black market,” explains Mohammed Abdurahman, a 50-year-old businessman from Sana’a (in the vehicle pulling up to the pump). “I have waited for up to four days to get it refilled. I come here with my son and we take turns staying with the car. Life has become very difficult.” Some days, fuel lines can stretch over several kilometers. Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

"When our customers pull up to the pump they are exhausted from waiting for so long,” explains Khaled, the 22-year-old petrol station attendant. “We work non-stop the whole day to fill as many cars as we can... At least the price per litre here is fixed by the state. On the black market, the price has quadrupled.” Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

The fuel shortage has also put an end to the regular trash collection in the city. People are forced to throw their trash on the street curbs or into abandoned lots. In some neighbourhoods, people have started to burn the trash. Photo: OCHA / P. Kropf, June 2015.

04 Jul 2015

Yemen: Life in conflict-affected Sana'a

03 Jul 2015

Ebola sensitisation in Guinea's Forecariah district

01 Jul 2015

DRC: when technology meets humanitarian aid

In April, the World Food Programme (WFP) was forced to suspend its food deliveries to 600, 000 people in Raqaa and Dier ez-Zor governorates, two Islamic State (IS) controlled areas. Despite the challenges, throughout the month, agencies were able to deliver food to some 277,550 people in hard-to-reach areas and four million others across the country. “We must support unhindered and unrestricted food transport across front lines; this will ensure food now available in one part of the country reaches Syrians wherever they are in the country,“ said WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin. Photo: WFP/Abeer Etefa.

For the eleventh month in a row, an IS blockade stopped UNICEF from sending water treatment supplies to Dier ez-Zor and Raqqa governorates. When the Nasib border crossing between Syria and Jordan was closed -- after the opposition group known as the Syrian Free Army took over the area -- UNICEF was unable to treat 500,000 liters of water. Photo: UNICEF.

Health centres and health workers are often targeted by shelling and air strikes in Syria. Since conflict broke out in March 2011, 633 medical personnel have been killed according to the NGO Physicians for Human Rights. Additionally, requests to deliver medical supplies are often refused. In April, the World health Organization (WHO) requested to send 2,000 renal failure treatments to Douma through an inter-agency convoy but the Government granted permission for only 250 of them. Sadly, the convoy was hit by a mortar in Douma, killing a 19-year-old Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) volunteer and injuring three others. Photo: SARC.

In April, UN agencies and partners, along with the Syrian Ministry of Health, carried out the first measles immunization campaign of the year. The campaign was able to reach 1.6 million children out of 2.6 million targeted, in 11 governorates. However, Raqqa, Idlib and large parts of Dier ez-Zor could not be reached with measles vaccinations due to active fighting, leaving some 230,000 young children without immunization in those areas. Since 2011, immunization rates across the country have fallen from 99 per cent to just 52 per cent due to lack of access and severe damage to health structures: nearly one third of the country’s health centres are either damaged or destroyed. Photo: UNICEF.

Cross-border deliveries continued under the terms of UN Security Council resolutions 2165 and 2191, adopted in 2014. Between 15 December 2014 and 14 May 2015, the United Nations requested 44 inter-agency convoys; of those, only five were completed. In early April, the Nasib border crossing with Jordan was closed, which has been severely disrupting humanitarian and commercial deliveries to the southern part of the country. UN agencies are now shipping assistance through Latakia sea port and other border crossings. As of 10 May, UN agencies and NGOs had sent 117 cross-border shipments to Syria; 77 from Turkey and 40 from Jordan, including food for 2.4 million people, non-food items and medical supplies for 1.3 million, and water and sanitation supplies for 847,000 people. Photo: OCHA.

Some 220,000 people are estimated to have been killed and over a million have been injured since the conflict erupted in 2011. In five years, 76 humanitarian workers have been killed, 45 of them from the Syrian Arab Red Crescent Society. A total of 32 United Nations staff members have been detained or are missing. "Aid workers are risking their lives despite extremely dangerous and difficult conditions. They help the most vulnerable people in the world. Attacks on aid workers mean that people in need do not receive assistance. Such attacks violate international humanitarian and human rights law," said UN Humanitarian Chief Stephen O’Brien. Photo: EPA-STR/UNICEF.

24 Jun 2015