The funds worth $600 million will be directed towards helping around 11 million people in Afghanistan, the global humanitarian agency says.
The spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said aid workers reported having to turn people away because they do not have enough medical oxygen or sufficient supplies of personal protective equipment.
The United Nations said some 3,000 people fled Syria’s northeastern province of Deir Ezzor last week, but at least 84 people, most of them children, died on the way to the Al Hol refugee camp in a neighbouring province.
The Saudi-led coalition with American backing continues to blockade Yemen, worsening a humanitarian crises that threatens the lives of millions of people.
The UN said it would study whether the blockade amounted to "collective punishment," banned under international law.
About 1.4 million children in the drought-devastated country are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2017, 50 percent more than estimated earlier this year.
UN says it has deployed dozens of observers in east Aleppo to monitor the last stage of the evacuation.
TRT World follows a Syrian refugee in Berlin as he protests the tragic events in his hometown of Aleppo. Once again, protest is the only way to show his opposition, but this time he knows it is likely in vain.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says the air attack on an aid convoy in Syria is a terrorist act and calls for complete cessation of all military aircraft movements over Syria.
An aid convoy was struck while traveling to Urm al-Kubra in Aleppo province, hours after the Syrian regime declared a week long truce to be over.
UN aid trucks to move only after Syrian regime issues letters authorising the deliveries, says United Nations Special Envoy for Syria.
United Nations has defended its actions, saying they were taken "in accordance with the core humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and independence."
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