Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at OCHA, announced the allocation of US$5 million to support urgent response efforts to ...

More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over one million children under the age of ...

The United Nations’ humanitarian chief is urging more global support for displaced people in eastern Congo. On Thursday, he visited refugee camps in North and South Kivu provinces. He described ...

Speaking from the Goma region, whose main city was overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in January, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher explained that people had suffered “decades of ...

The UN on Monday said it would be slashing its annual appeal to donors by more than a third as the US and other Western countries cut their foreign aid budgets to redirect funds towards defence ...

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher (L) visiting a mobile healthcare centre in Afghanistan's Kunduz Province in April ...

Tom Fletcher told the U.N. Security Council that the food security crisis in the Arab world’s poorest country, which is beset by civil war, has been accelerating since late 2023.

More than 17 million people in Yemen are going hungry, including over a million children under the age of five suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition”, the UN's humanitarian chief said on ...