World | WPN World People News

The Kutupalong-Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, is home to more than 600,000 stateless Rohingya refugees.

Nadezhda Petrova (centre), Vice-Director of the Tolstoy Museum in Moscow shows an attache case containing pages of Leo Tolstoy’s War And Peace at Geneva airport.

UNICEF chartered a plane carrying 1.6 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccines (OCV) to Khartoum the day before. The vaccines arrived to Sudan at a critical time as cholera cases continue to be reported. According to the Federal Ministry of Health, since the beginning of the outbreak on 8 September, eight deaths were reported in the Blue Nile and Sennar states.

Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are being supported by the United Nations to begin small businesses such as tailoring.

A World Food Programme food distribution point in Dhubab, Yemen.

Twenty-three boys and two girls were released on Oct 03, 2019 from Nigerian Army administrative custody after being cleared of suspected ties with armed groups. This brings the number of children released this year to 44.

A rights lawyer who took to horseback to help more than 10,000 stateless people gain nationality in Kyrgystan after the break-up of the Soviet Union, has been awarded the UN refugee agency’s prestigious 2019 Nansen Refugee Award.

Local youth join popular South Sudanese artist Emmanuel Kembe as he sings about peace, reconciliation and nation building. The concert was part of a series of peace events that have been conducted in the area by UNMISS, in collaboration with the local authorities.

The government of Guinea has effectively banned street protests for more than a year, citing threats to public security, Human Rights Watch said on Oct 03, 2019. Local authorities have prohibited at least 20 political or other demonstrations. Security forces have tear gassed those who defy the ban, and arrested dozens of demonstrators.

A Syrian family from Idlib who have recently arrived in Lesvos, Greece, take shelter in an olive grove adjacent to Moria reception centre.