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Daily Wrap 4 February 2025
A young boy in Mozambique sleeps next to a bag of food aid donated by USAID and distributed by the UN's World Food Programme.
US funding pause leaves millions 'in jeopardy', insist UN humanitarians

UN agencies on Tuesday offered a dire assessment of the global impact of deep cuts to grassroots humanitarian funding by the incoming US administration and reiterated calls for Washington to retain its position as a global aid leader.

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Humanitarian Aid
Haitians displaced by violence find refuge on the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Human rights situation in Haiti remains 'very alarming', UN report finds

Gang violence in Haiti continues to have a devastating impact on the population, according to a new report from the UN office in the country (BINUH) on human rights violations recorded during the last quarter of 2024.

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Human Rights
Insecurity persists in parts of Syria, including Aleppo, which witnessed some of the most intense fighting of the conflict. (file photo)
Deadly attacks in eastern Aleppo highlight Syria's vulnerability

The United Nations on Tuesday condemned a deadly car bomb attack in the Syrian city of Manbij that killed 20 people, mostly women, and left many others critically injured.

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Peace and Security
Fighting in and around Sudan's El Fasher has forced many families to flee in search of safety. (file)
World News in Brief: 'Ruthless assault on human life' in Sudan, Gaza ceasefire must hold says relief chief, World Cancer Day

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan has again urged warring parties to stop targeting civilians. 

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Peace and Security
Chatting during intermission at New York's Metropolitan Opera House on Human Rights Day in 1950, Eleanor Roosevelt, UN General Assembly President Nasrollah Entezam and contralto Marian Anderson. (file)
Stories from the UN Archive: Marian Anderson broke barriers with music and diplomacy

Marian Anderson, one of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century, once performed in the UN's gilded General Assembly Hall in New York and also represented her country, the United States, as a delegate.

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Human Rights
Units of the UN Force in the Congo (ONUC) secured positions outside the perimeter of Elisabethville in 1963. (file)
Why have UN peacekeepers been in DR Congo for 65 years?

Regional conflicts, murderous militias, the exploitation of natural resources, innocent civilians forced to flee their homes; these recent developments in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are just the latest in the central African nation's troubled history.

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Peace and Security
A scattering of people walk through a commercial district in Goma.
DR Congo: UN call to reopen Goma airport 'lifeline', as crisis deepens

The UN's top humanitarian official in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Tuesday called for Goma airport to be urgently reopened, warning its continued closure is paralyzing relief operations.

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Peace and Security
Much of Gaza has been destroyed in the conflict.
UNRWA delivers bulk of aid in Gaza, as destruction mounts in West Bank

Some 30,000 residents from Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank have fled their homes after large swathes of it were destroyed in a series of controlled detonations by the Israeli security forces (ISF), the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said on Tuesday.

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Peace and Security
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