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In Mali, recurrent floods and droughts have made life difficult for farmers.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces grave hunger challenges in 2020: UN food relief agency

31 December 2019
Humanitarian Aid
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From left: Malala Yousafzai attends an education event at UN Headquarters; People walk along Port-au-Prince streets following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti; UN peacekeeper on patrol in Kidal, Mali; Smoke drifts into the sky from buildings and houses hit by shelling in Homs, Syria.

The 2010 – 2020 UN News Decade in Review, part one

23 December 2019
UN Affairs
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An IOM supported piped water supply project in a displaced persons camp in Dolow, Somalia. IOM, WFP and other agencies were able to cover the urgent needs of the displaced people in this camp thanks to the support of UNCERF.

UN chief urges emergency fund support as one of the ‘most effective investments’ in humanitarian action

9 December 2019
Humanitarian Aid
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The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) says in November 2018 two in three children in the Central African Republic need humanitarian assistance.

Partnerships key to taking landlocked countries out of poverty: UN Chief

5 December 2019
Economic Development
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A panoramic view outside Kathmandu, Nepal.

From landlocked to land-linked: how the UN is helping some of the world’s poorest countries

4 December 2019
Economic Development
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Primary School in Afghanistan.(File)

Wednesday’s Daily Brief: Afghan child abuse, DR Congo measles deaths, Palestinian solidarity

27 November 2019
Peace and Security
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The UN health agency, WHO, is encouraging adolescents to exercise more.

Four in five adolescents failing to exercise for even 60 minutes a day, UN health agency warns

22 November 2019
Health
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Millions of children across Yemen face serious threats due to malnutrition, in particular, and the lack of basic health services, in general.

Monday’s Daily Brief: Progress and pitfalls in child rights, millions of Afghans acutely food insecure, Middle East nuclear-free zone, social media and child detention

18 November 2019
Human Rights
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A mural commemorating journalists killed in Afghanistan has been painted on a blast wall in downtown Kabul.

Friday's Daily Brief: When journalists are targets, landslides in Cameroon, UN Female Police Officer of the Year award

1 November 2019
Human Rights
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A nurse administers an oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to a baby at the Kaloko Clinic, Ndola, Zambia.

World is closer than ever to seeing polio disappear for good

24 October 2019
Health
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