The UN’s relief chief says coronavirus has added 100 million people to those in need of humanitarian relief worldwide.
Humanitarian Crises
![Conflict and poverty are exacerbating child malnutrition in Yemen [File: Khaled Abdullah/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ba231eb6ff9c46299871113241adc6db_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
World Food Programme chief warns famine possible in up to three dozen countries, decries situation in Yemen and DRC.
![Earlier this month, the Riyadh Criminal Court commuted death sentences and handed down prison terms of up to 20 years to the convicts [File: Ozan Kose/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fb872a1debb042debffc8220dacec01e_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
EU member states urged to impose arms embargo over Khashoggi’s killing and the war in Yemen.
![Waves break ashore near the Gulf State Park pier as the outer bands of Hurricane Sally come ashore [Joe Raedle/Getty Images/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ddd17375bec542a5ac200868ba8c3b30_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Category 2 storm makes landfall, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential...
![More than 560 people are feared to have drowned in the Mediterranean this year, according to the IOM's Missing Migrants Project [Faras Ghani/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/26cd7ac4d3bd49a09469162ec2cd51e2_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
UN migration agency says Libyan coastguard retrieved two bodies, and survivors say 22 others are missing.
The dead include two children and a woman; Greek coastguard says it is unclear whether anyone is still missing.
![A father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a therapeutic feeding centre in a hospital in Hodeidah, Yemen [File: Hani Mohammed/AP]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/16d265a6bf1a4c68af1c74b2a5e44161_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
UN calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis with 80 percent of the population of 30 million in need of aid.
Historic talks to end Afghanistan’s long-running conflict kick off in Doha with opening remarks from both sides.
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Chanting ‘freedom’, the former inhabitants of burned Moria camp protest against plan to be moved to another facility.
![Refugees and migrants from the destroyed Moria camp protest after the news about the creation of a new temporary camp on the island of Lesbos [Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/13067d767620439a85071ed02e396ce6_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Some 13,000 people living in the camp on the Greek island of Lesbos were left homeless by two consecutive fires.
Thousand of people left homeless after a fire destroys Europe’s largest refugee camp.
![A migrant walks among destroyed shelters following a fire at the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece [Elias Marcou/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ea14c8fd42d54bdfa10da673e4e6a534_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Over 12,000 men, women and children ran out of tents in panic as the fire destroyed most the camp.
![Refugees and migrants run as fires blaze in the Moria refugee camp on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece. [Panagiotis Balaskas/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/16bc59108ad349f4814a63298ac88064_8.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
More than 13,000 people in desperate need of emergency shelter after blaze hits notoriously overcrowded Greek camp.
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Hundreds stranded on Banksy-funded refugee rescue boat are transferred to safety.