Humanitarian Affairs in a sentence

The delegation comprised deputy regional humanitarian coordinator David Carden and Sanjana Quazi, who heads the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Turkey.

In March 2024, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that nine million people require humanitarian assistance in South Sudan this year.

The acting undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs stressed that to address “the atrocious humanitarian situation,” there are two keys: a de-escalation in fighting and a willingness by both sides to facilitate access to those in need.

The budget covers the costs of United Nations programmes in areas such as political affairs, international justice and law, international cooperation for development, public information, human rights and humanitarian affairs.

Based on information from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 117,000 people in Mindanao are still displaced, mainly due to weather-related problems.

But “Afghanistan is going through a savage winter,” UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Martin Griffiths told reporters.

Following the visit of a U.N delegation to the region this week, the DRC's minister of humanitarian affairs, Modeste Mutinga Mutushayi, called on the rebels to withdraw.

In 2019, 40 children and youth with autism and Down’s syndrome from both communities were given the opportunity to dance together, when this was facilitated by the Technical Committee on Humanitarian Affairs.

Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have razed 790 housing units and severely damaged 5,330, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said early Tuesday.

The Minister, Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Better Edu has assured that the ministry would work to actualize the vision of lifting 136million Nigerians out of poverty in line with the vision of President Bola Tinubu.

The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Dr Betta Edu, has said the victory of President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal is a triumph of truth over propaganda.

Towards actualising its determination to do away with this current register, Dr Betta Edu, the current Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, has flagged off the verification of names on the national social register in Lagos suburbs.

An estimated 9,850 trees or saplings have been damaged in hundreds of attacks by settlers since the war began, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Established by former president Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, the ministry was meant to coordinate humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation in the country.

Former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has again chided the President Bola Tinubu’s administration, saying the suspension of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, though commendable, but not enough.

Images shared by the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management in Niger state show rescue workers and community members using canoes to search the sandy-colored river, pulling bodies out of the water.

In the latest development, the presidency issued a recent report regarding the ongoing probe into corruption within the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.

It certainly won’t be anywhere near the colossal venality that is perpetuated at the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development under the guise of giving money to the poor.

Meanwhile, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday demanded the immediate suspension of Minister of Interior, Mr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo over the award of N438 million contract to a company he co-founded by the humanitarian affairs ministry.

More than 150 people had been rescued and treated at a clinic run by the Niger State Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday, said Habibu Wushishi, a spokesman for the state’s ministry of humanitarian affairs and disaster management.