Syrian humanitarian organisations working in Eastern Ghouta have been forced to halt the delivery of life-saving aid to the area following heavy bombardment which has pushed civilians – including aid workers – into underground shelters, CARE has warned. CARE’s Country Director for Syria, Wouter Schaap, said the escalating violence had…

“What we have now is all the ingredients for a humanitarian catastrophe.” The people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are facing an uncertain 2018. The humanitarian situation deteriorated dramatically in 2017, and the country is now facing a crisis of massive proportions, aid agency CARE…

Yemen risks sliding into famine and further disease outbreaks unless all the country’s ports are fully reopened, aid agency CARE has warned as the country marks 1,000 days since conflict began. More than 22 million people in Yemen are in need of humanitarian aid, 7 million people face famine-like conditions…

Thousands of Syrians are still being killed, wounded, displaced, and besieged every day as the war rages on and help is not reaching people in need, the Syria INGO Regional Forum said today. The member organizations warned against a narrative that violence is reducing in the wake of recent political…

CARE is working rapidly to provide urgent food and assistance to hundreds of thousands of people who have arrived in Bangladesh after fleeing intense violence in Myanmar. Over just three weeks almost 400,000 people from Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State have made the hazardous journey to Bangladesh to escape conflict. By…

CARE has started distributing emergency supplies to survivors of deadly floods that have hit Nepal, India and Bangladesh. The regional crisis has affected 16 million people and there are growing concerns about food shortages and disease. “This is the worst flooding in more than 100 years,” CARE’s Country Director in…