{"id":62777,"date":"2025-12-08T20:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/un-launches-33b-aid-appeal-for-2026-to-support-135m-people"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:14:15","slug":"un-launches-33b-aid-appeal-for-2026-to-support-135m-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/un-launches-33b-aid-appeal-for-2026-to-support-135m-people","title":{"rendered":"UN Launches $33B Aid Appeal for 2026 to Support 135M People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong> <\/span>The UN on Monday launched its $33 billion \u201cLife By Life\u201d humanitarian appeal for 2026, aiming to support 135 million people, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe UN and partners today launched their global humanitarian appeal to save millions of lives where shocks hit hardest \u2013 in wars, climate disasters, earthquakes, epidemics and where crop failures occur,\u201d an OCHA statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency emphasized that its \u201cimmediate priority\u201d is securing $23 billion to save 87 million people, with the total climbing to $33 billion in 2026 to reach 135 million individuals \u201cthrough 23 country operations and six plans for refugees and migrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re shifting power to local organizations, putting more money directly into the hands of the people who need it, and behind it all, we are renewing and reimagining humanitarian action with idealism, humility and hope,\u201d UN Humanitarian Chief Tom Fletcher said.<\/p>\n<p>OCHA stressed that funding for the 2025 aid appeal was the &#8220;lowest in a decade&#8221; with $12 billion and the humanitarians reached &#8220;25 million less people than in 2024&#8221; due to &#8220;brutal&#8221; funding cuts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences were immediate: hunger surged, health systems came under crushing strain, education fell away, mine clearance stalled and families faced blow after blow: no shelter, no cash assistance, no protection services,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>The largest individual response plan in the 2026 appeal is for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, with $4.1 billion required to support 3 million people \u201cwho have faced shocking levels of violence and destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Sudan, the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis, $2.9 billion is needed for 20 million people. 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The UN on Monday launched its $33 billion \u201cLife By Life\u201d humanitarian appeal for 2026, aiming to support 135 million people, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced. \u201cThe UN and partners today launched their global humanitarian appeal to save millions of lives where shocks hit hardest \u2013 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[3298,5832,241,4037,212],"class_list":["post-62777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-aid","tag-funding","tag-mauritius","tag-ocha","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UN Launches $33B Aid Appeal for 2026 to Support 135M People - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"-article-header-tag&quot;&gt; Africa-Press - Mauritius. 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