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Millions of people in Bangladesh have been impacted by climate shocks, like flooding.

Race is on to limit extreme weather impact on most vulnerable: Guterres

19 August 2021

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Security and humanitarian challenges plague Mali, considered the UN's most dangerous peacekeeping mission.

UN deputy chief warns of ‘hurricane of humanitarian crises’

16 July 2021

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A mother prepares food for her children with cereal she received from a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution site in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

155 million faced acute food insecurity in 2020, conflict the key driver

5 May 2021

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World Food Programme (WFP) food distribution in Kaya, Burkina Faso.

Aid agencies call for urgent action to prevent famine in hunger hotspots

6 November 2020

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Marie-Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire, an epidemiologiist with the World Health Organisation team tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, travels by helicopter to Butembo in the east of the country.

UN salutes real-life heroes doing ‘extraordinary things, in extraordinary times’

19 August 2020

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World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, visits the Al Sabeen maternal hospital in Sana'a, Yemen.

Finding hope in calamity: how UN humanitarians cope on the frontline

10 July 2020

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Ethiopia experienced a severe food crisis in 2019, with hunger and malnutrition rates soaring to alarming levels.

Keep critical food supply chains operating to save lives during COVID-19, urges new UN-backed report

21 April 2020

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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

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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

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A volunteer at the Primary Health Centre in on of Cox's Bazaar's vast refugee camps inoculates the baby of an 18-year-old mother, Bangladesh 2019.

Paying tribute and strengthening the role of #WomenHumanitarians on World Humanitarian Day

19 August 2019

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