The Secretary of State for International Development in Britain Priti Patel announced that Britain will provide an additional £37 million in funding for Yemen this year, said Express newspaper on Sept.22. She also said that [ More … ]
Senior United Nations officials have voiced concern over the failure to meet targets in the delivery of humanitarian aid to the besieged areas of Syria, though they have hope for a breakthrough in negotiations to [ More … ]
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has frozen more than $ 200 million in contracts for Syrian humanitarian aid, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The situation likely means that starving and sick people [ More … ]
As the war rages in Syria, Assad regime uses siege as a powerful tool to pressure on Syrian rebel forces. more than 600.000 Syrians are besieged in various areas without food or aid, and many [ More … ]
The Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs began on Tuesday to distribute Turkish humanitarian aid to poor families in the blockaded Gaza Strip. “The aid will be disbursed on several stages as we target poor families, [ More … ]
Assad regime bombarded the besieged Damascus suburb of Darayya hours after the arrival of its first food aid since 2012, residents said. The reported violence on Friday came hours after the Syrian Arab Red Crescent [ More … ]
Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) In cooperation with UN Offices delivered the second international aid convoy to the rebel-held town of Darayya overnight bringing food supplies for the first time since 2012, when the town [ More … ]
As the United Nations correctly says, Syria has become one of the most “complex and dynamic humanitarian crises in the world today”. The scale and intensity of the fighting has been accentuated by the targeting [ More … ]
Access to millions of Syrians in need of help is worsening as violence increases across Syria, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned Friday, and the Security Council announced it will formally ask Assad regime to allow [ More … ]
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