File photo The United Nations has issued an appeal for one billion dollars in aid for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. The United Nations says that with one billion dollars, it will be possible to provide humanitarian aid to 5.2 million people in Turkey for 3 months. Earlier, the United Nations has appealed…
The funding, which covers a three-month-period, will allow aid organizations to swiftly ramp up their operations to support Government-led response efforts in areas that include food security, protection, education, water and shelter. UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged the international community to step up and fully fund the response effort. “Türkiye is home to the…
The United Arab Emirates will provide additional aid of 50 million dollars to Syria affected by the devastating earthquake on the instructions of the President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. The new aid amounts are in addition to the $50 million previously provided to Syria, a country wracked by civil war since 2011 and badly hit…
The United Nations appealed for nearly 400 million dollars in aid for the victims of the earthquake in Syria. The United Nations says that the aid appeal for earthquake victims in Turkey is in the final stages. According to the United Nations, 9 million people have been affected by the earthquake in Syria, and the…
Only a single crossing point – Bab al-Hawa – has been open to humanitarians since the 6 February earthquakes struck across the border region of southern Türkiye and northwest Syria, which has been in the grip of civil war for the past 12 years, and is the last remaining region partly under the control of…
The World Food Program of the United Nations has called for an immediate ceasefire in Syria so that relief operations can be carried out and aid can be delivered to the people affected by the earthquake. According to Urdu News, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has appealed to provide 77 million dollars to…
A total of 14 trucks crossed into opposition-held areas of Syria from Türkiye at Bab al-Hawa, the UN migration agency, IOM, confirmed. That crossing is the only one authorised for aid deliveries by the UN Security Council, which has prompted calls – including from the Secretary-General – “to explore all possible avenues to get aid and personnel into all affected…
Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations aid program, will visit the affected areas this week to assess the damage caused by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, speaking to reporters in New York, said that Martin Griffiths, the head of the United Nations Aid Program, will visit…
“Aid, life-saving aid, is desperately needed by civilians wherever they are irrespective of borders and boundaries,” he told journalists in Geneva. “We need it urgently, through the fastest, most direct, and most effective routes. They need more of absolutely everything.” According to UN aid coordinating office, OCHA, six trucks carrying “shelter items and non-food item…
The Taliban government of Afghanistan has announced an aid of 165 thousand dollars for the people affected by the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Afghanistan itself is suffering from the worst economic and humanitarian tragedy, one of the countries receiving the biggest aid from the United Nations. The Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced…
