We are scaling up to reach families hit by conflict in North Kordofan. We will seize every opening to expand life-saving aid in and around El Obeid. The parties must deescalate, protect civilians and ensure humanitarian access.
Tom Fletcher
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United Nations Humanitarian Chief. Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof. Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
As part of UN Secretary General’s #UN80 initiative, UN humanitarian agencies are integrating our procurement, logistics and supply chains to reduce duplication and costs, and deliver aid more efficiently.
Venezuela earthquakes, a Pakistan pilgrimage, Gaza, Sudan, Ebola, latest on Humanitarian Reset and campaign to save 87m lives this year. Via Floyd, an Odyssey, game theory and a rules based international sport … Latest Humanifesto: www.linkedin.com/pulse/humani...
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22 July 2026 I’ve just finished a week in Pakistan, focused on the reality of the climate crisis. I saw Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Foreign Minister Dar to discuss the diplomacy around the US/Ir...
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A heartbreaking sight, the Passu Glacier dying on our watch. We need bolder leadership on climate now or it will be too late.
We must ensure more young people are part of debate on climate crisis action. My interview with @dawnnews.tv from Islamabad👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7hg...
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A place of beauty and danger. Our failure to slow vandalism of our climate is making more places uninhabitable.
For Nasreen and so many others in Hunza, choices made far away are creating the floods that threaten her life and livelihood. We’re helping her community install early warning systems and build defences. But it’s not enough. We need bolder global leadership on climate.
The high mountains of Gilgit Baltistan: a place of beauty, and danger. Landscape unchanged for centuries. Until now. Thoughts on pilgrimage, politics of climate vandalism, and a perilous future.
Communities who have lived in Gilgit-Baltistan for centuries are having to move or adapt because of climate crises. They told me of their fears for future, and determination to survive. We are helping them build defences, install early warning systems, and train for the worst.
Arrived in Gilgit-Baltistan. Communities have lived here in the high places for millennia. But rising temperatures are causing flash floods, landslides and avalanches. A landscape and a way of life is threatened.
Visited Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority with Chairman Lt. Gen Inam to build our preparations for the climate disasters ahead.
With #Pakistan Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar in Islamabad. Practical session on vital diplomacy in Middle East, Pakistan/Afghanistan humanitarian convoys, UN reform and global disaster preparedness.
Excellent discussion in Islamabad with Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. We discussed intense diplomatic efforts on Middle East, humanitarian convoys across Pakistan/Afghanistan border, and partnership on global disaster preparedness.
Excellent to meet Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha Vásquez in Panama City to discuss our lifesaving effort in Venezuela and enhancing our preparedness in Panama, including for El Niño.
The choice is clear: we can wait for disaster, or we can invest in resilience. El Niño is back. My statement:
The courage of the Venezuelans holding their communities together. My interview with Diario TalCual👇🏼 youtu.be/1eaNYYExK6o?...
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La resiliencia de los venezolanos es extraordinaria. En menos de dos minutos, miles de personas lo perdieron todo por los terremotos. Ahora debemos seguir brindando agua, alimentos, refugio, protección y solidaridad con resultados concretos.
Useful catch up call from Caracas with Palestinian Prime Minister Mustafa. Amid immense challenges, 41,000 students in Gaza just sat high school exams, a cause for hope. We aim for a surge of practical support on waste and water.
Coordination sounds boring. But when disaster strikes, it saves lives. Responding to #Venezuela earthquakes over last fortnight demanded watertight alignment of local authorities, states, search and rescue teams, private sector, and NGOs. This is the stadium where it happens.
La solidaridad que hemos visto en estas 2 semanas ha sido extraordinaria. Equipos de rescate, ayuda humanitaria llegando a las personas, comunidades uniéndose. Ahora necesitamos que esa solidaridad continúe para apoyar a 1,3 millones de personas afectadas. Mi mensaje a Osmary Hernandez de @cnn.com
We know how to stop #Ebola. We have a plan and the people to deliver it. To deliver we need full access and more investment in preparedness. Any delay will be measured in lives lost.
The Humanitarian Reset in action. As we transition from earthquake search and rescue to support for survivors, humanitarians are working in a prioritised, coordinated way. At this centre in La Guaira, Venezuela, we’re helping 2000 people through their moment of upheaval.
Imagine waiting by your ruined home in desperate hope that if rescue teams fall silent it might be because they hear your child. Is more help coming? There must be only one answer to their question. My message from #Caracas at global Ministerial Conference on earthquakes.
Gracias a la Presidenta Encargada Delcy Rodriguez por nuestra conversación constructiva sobre cómo ampliar la respuesta humanitaria frente a los devastadores terremotos. Reafirmamos nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo de Venezuela.
Caraballeda, La Guaira, one of the areas hardest hit by Venezuela’s earthquakes. So many lives destroyed in two minutes of terror. 13 days on, mothers gather here, holding on to the hope that their children might somehow still be alive.
My interview with @skynewsrss.bsky.social on our coordinated global humanitarian response to the earthquakes in #Venezuela.
We cannot allow El Obeid to become another El Fasher.
The risk of cross-border #Ebola spread is real. To bolster readiness, I've allocated $2M for Burundi and $6M for South Sudan from UN's Emergency Fund CERF to strengthen surveillance, testing, community engagement and equitable access to health care in high-risk areas.
Over 25m people reached. $10b raised. Real momentum behind our plan to save 87 million lives this year. Thank you to all making this possible. Let’s keep going. Find out more: bit.ly/4kJpkbA and bit.ly/4oGYVgD. Radical transparency.
