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Daily Wrap 3 June 2025
Displaced families seek refuge in Saint-Marc, Haiti.
Haiti: WFP concerned over humanitarian situation as hurricane season begins

As the hurricane season gets underway in the Caribbean, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over Haiti's humanitarian situation. 

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Humanitarian Aid
A neighbourhood in Idleb, Syria, devastated by the conflict. (file photo)
World News in Brief: Aid for Syria, children under attack in Mozambique, rights-based climate action

Nearly 16 million people in Syria need urgent humanitarian health support, the UN warned on Tuesday, as aid deliveries continue amid escalating needs, deadly explosive hazards and a severe funding shortfall.

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Humanitarian Aid
Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid on their way to deliver supplies to El Fasher, Darfur. (file)
Five humanitarians killed in 'horrendous' attack on aid convoy in Sudan

An aid convoy carrying life-saving assistance for the famine-affected area of North Darfur, Sudan, was attacked on Monday night, killing five humanitarian workers, injuring many more and damaging critical humanitarian supplies.  

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Humanitarian Aid
A girl walks to a water collection point in Renk town in South Sudan's strife-ridden Upper Nile state. (file)
As displacement surges in South Sudan, regional humanitarian crisis deepens

Since a sharp escalation in fighting in South Sudan in late February, 165,000 people have fled their homes, seeking safety either within the country or across borders, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. 

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Migrants and Refugees
Chad. Rapid Influx of Sudanese refugees leaves thousands in desperate need
Sudan: Rise in people fleeing to Chad as violence surges

The number of Sudanese refugees in Chad has more than tripled in just over two years amid the ongoing war in their homeland, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said in an alert on Tuesday.

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Migrants and Refugees
UN General Assembly elects five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council.
Five countries elected to serve on UN Security Council

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia, and Liberia were elected on Tuesday to serve as non-permanent members of the UN Security Council, with two-year terms beginning in January 2026.

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Peace and Security
Five-year-old Ayman Abu Hujair receives treatment after an airstrike at Gaza's Al-Hasayneh School (file, May 2025)
Gaza: UN rights chief condemns new killings around private aid hub

UN human rights chief Volker Türk has condemned new reports that dozens more Gazans were killed early Tuesday "trying to access paltry amounts of food" around a private aid hub in the south of the enclave run by the US and Israel.

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Peace and Security
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