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South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a humanitarian crisis, the U.N. mission there said. The trucks were held up at depots and the Ugandan border on Wednesday despite assurances from the minister of humanitarian affairs a day earlier that a new tax on trucks carrying fuel and other supplies did not apply to U.N. humanitarian operations, a spokesperson for the mission said. Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Albino Akok Atak and Information Minister Michael Makuei were not immedia...

U.S. Gaza aid envoy David Satterfield is set to step down shortly and will be replaced by former senior United Nations official Lise Grande, two sources familiar with the issue told Reuters on Wednesday. Satterfield was appointed six months ago as the U.S. special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues with a specific focus on leading the U.S. response to the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip. Grande is currently head of the independent U.S. Institute of Peace.

Through a notification system and improved and direct communications between humanitarians and military decision—makers on the ground. this is essential and must be implemented immediately. forthe is essential and must be implemented immediately. for the moment, is essential and must be implemented immediately. forthe moment, however aid operations face enormous difficulties, and are barely functional. they cannot operate in an organised systematic way, they can only seize opportunities to deliver aid whenever and wherever possible. humanitarians alone cannot address the enormity of the need...

The Edo State Police Command has reiterated its ban on officers searching phones during routine patrols and other operations, describing such actions as

U.S. non-profit World Central Kitchen said Tuesday it was suspending aid food operations in Gaza with immediate effect in the wake of the killing of seven of its workers in an "unforgivable" Israel Defense Forces airstri