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UN Security Council: ‘Deep concern’ about Ethiopia’s Tigray

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FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, a malnourished girl, Rahmah Watheeq, receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. In a grim update to the U.N. Security Council Thursday, April 15, 2021, Mark Lowcock, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen is getting even worse with the COVID-19 pandemic “roaring back” in recent weeks as the Arab world’s poorest country faces a large-scale famine. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN warns COVID-19 is `roaring back’ as Yemen faces famine

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Elsa Tesfa Berhe, 26, center, a reproductive health official from Adwa, collects water a day after arriving from Humera to Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 16, 2021. Reusing gloves and rationing water, Berhe treated women secretly after Eritrean soldiers swept through health centers, looting even the beds and telling patients to leave. As she snuck out to deliver babies and treat the wounded, she saw people trying to bury bodies at the risk of being shot, or pouring alcohol on corpses in an attempt to hide the smell. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

UN: Tigray’s humanitarian crisis worsens, no Eritrean exit

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2018 file photo, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock addresses the media. Lowcock is hoping a major ministerial meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, will not only raise a billion dollars for the three countries at the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region -- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger -- but spur leaders to address the underlying drivers including increasing conflict and insecurity, weak governance, and a lack of development. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

UN aid chief calls for Eritrean forces to leave Tigray

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Yemen faces world’s worst famine and needs $3.85 billion

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN releases $15 million to fight Ebola in Guinea and Congo

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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2020, file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive from Village 8, the transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. Huge unknowns persist in the deadly conflict, but details of the involvement of neighboring Eritrea, one of the world's most secretive countries, are emerging through witness accounts by survivors and others. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

US urges Ethiopia’s PM to allow ‘immediate’ help to Tigray

By CARA ANNA and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN presses for access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 1, 2018, file photo, a woman holds a malnourished boy at the Aslam Health Center, in Hajjah, Yemen. A leading aid organization on Monday warned that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's move to designate Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels as a “foreign terrorist organization” would deal another “devastating blow&quot; to the impoverished and war-torn nation. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Aid chief: US naming Yemen rebels terrorists a famine threat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020 file photo, Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, wait to receive aid at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. A key U.N. aid agency says needs for humanitarian assistance have ballooned this year because of COVID-19, projecting that a staggering 235 million people — who together would make up the world's fifth most-populous country — are likely to require such help next year for troubles like the pandemic as well as war, forced migration and the impact of global warming (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

UN: Pandemic to fan surge in humanitarian needs in 2021

By JAMEY KEATEN and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

File-This June 4, 2020, file photo shows Women and children walk in a makeshift site for displaced people in Kongoussi, Burkina Faso. The U.N. humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, is hoping a major ministerial meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, will not only raise a billion dollars for the three countries at the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region -- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger -- but spur leaders to address the underlying drivers including increasing conflict and insecurity, weak governance, and a lack of development (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

UN hopes meeting will raise $1 billion for key Sahel nations

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN aid chief: Funding shortage cuts aid to 4 million Yemenis

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN humanitarian chief: Sahel is very close to tipping point

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 27, 2020 file photo, a medic checks a malnourished newborn baby inside an incubator at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Human Rights Watch warned Monday, Sept. 14, 2020 that warring parties in Yemen's yearslong conflict are “severely restricting” the delivery of desperately needed aid as the country slides toward famine amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN warns of Yemen famine, no aid from Saudis, UAE, Kuwait

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Women bring their children to the United-Nation run Elementary School on the first day of the new school year at the United-Nation run Elementary School at the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. Schools run by both Palestinian government and the U.N. Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) have opened almost normally in the Gaza Strip after five months in which no cases of community transmission of the coronavirus had been recorded. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN: COVID-19 could fuel more conflict, poverty, starvation

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A worker disinfects a school as a preventive measure against the spread of the new coronavirus before students taking a final-term school exam at a public school in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN chief warns of famine risk in 4 countries

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo released by the Turkish humanitarian group IHH on April 6, 2020, aid workers of the group demonstrate to Syrian children how to properly wash hands, at a camp for internally displaced persons in northern Syria. The rapid spread of the coronavirus has raised fears about the world’s refugees and internally displaced people, many of whom live in poor or war-ravaged countries that are ill-equipped to test for the virus or contain a possible outbreak. (IHH via AP, File)

UN and West spar with Russia over cross-border aid to Syria

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020, workers unload boxes of medical supplies on arrival at Sanaa International Airport in Sanaa, Yemen. The shipment includes ventilators, coronavirus test kits, PCR machines and personal protective equipment. Organized by the United Nations and private companies, it comes as the UN is facing a funding shortage for its operations in the war-torn country, where officials and medical experts fear the coronavirus could be spreading unchecked due to limited medical facilities. (World Health Organization via AP)

UN aid chief: Yemen will fall off a cliff if no new funds

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Street vendors, wearing face masks as a precaution against the spread of the new coronavirus, sell fruit on the street corner in Katlehong, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, May 6, 2020. South Africa began a phased easing of its strict lockdown measures on May 1, and its confirmed cases of coronavirus continue to increase as more people are being tested. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

UN appeals for $6.7 billion to fight virus in poor countries

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: $90 billion could protect 700 million poor in pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press