Toronto, Canada- The intense military campaign in North Western Syria has displaced over 900,000 people since December, including an estimated 500,000 children. Freezing weather and a lack of...
Response objectives Save lives in the areas of highest need through rapid provision of relief items and emergency services Ensure that vulnerable people with specific needs and/or reduced coping...
The Mongolian National Agency for Meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (NAMEM) has developed an extreme winter (dzud) risk map for the country using MODIS satellite data, among other resources...
IN THIS ISSUE Northeast: Ongoing fighting results in deaths and damage to health clinic and public school Roads connecting Kunduz to Pul-e-Khumri and Kunduz to Taloqan were reportedly not safe due to...
As delivered New York, 19 February 2020 Thank you, Mr. President, I would like to start by paying tribute to two of our humanitarian colleagues, staff members of Oxfam, who were killed this afternoon...
A single mother displaced by conflict gets help to survive the winter Contribution from Afghanaid Sayed Bibi is a single mother and raising three young children on her own. Unable to earn a living,...
February 17, 2020, Toronto, Canada- At approximately 11:55 am Damascus time on February 17, two hospitals were hit by airstrikes in Darat Izza, Aleppo. The Al Kinana Hospital in Darat Izza was hit by...
New York, 17 February 2020 The crisis in north-west Syria has reached a horrifying new level. We now believe 900,000 people have been displaced since 1 December, the vast majority women and...
A series of avalanches occurred in Daykundi Province (central Afghanistan) on 13-14 Febraury, causing at least 22 fatalities. According to media reports, 10 people were injured and at least 50 houses...
(Jerusalem - 11/2/2020): PRCS distributed today relief items to families affected by the latest bad weather episode which hit Nabi Samwil, a Palestinian village close to Jerusalem but isolated from...