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The Government of Ethiopia and humanitarian partners have released a response Plan to address fresh internal displacement around Gedeo (SNNPR) and West Guji (Oromia) Zones. The Appeal prioritizes life-saving support for over 818,000 men, women and children displaced as a result of inter-communal violence that has escalated since early June 2018.

A 38-year-old widow who lost her husband in the Central African Republic war escaped to the Ngam refugee site in the Adamawa region of Cameroon with her five children; one of whom recently died.

UNHCR staff wait in Tripoli to assist refugees and migrants upon disembarkation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, discussed implementing a 2015 peace agreement that has failed to end the violence in eastern Ukraine, according to Russian media.

Japan has decided to cancel evacuation drills staged to prepare the country for ballistic missile attacks from North Korea, citing the recent diplomatic thaw following last week’s summit between Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Save the Children believes the Presidential Executive Order addressing family separation achieves one thing: further harming already vulnerable children.

A Rohingya woman and her child at a makeshift camp outside Sittwe in Myanmar's western Rakhine State.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (2nd left) meets with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov of the Russia Federation in Moscow.

European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli presents the SDG flag he flew abroad the International Space Station to UNOOSA Director Simonetta Di Pippo.

Anti-Slavery International has worked for almost a decade on protecting children who are forced by their schoolmasters in their Koranic school to beg on the streets in Senegal, West Africa, making them vulnerable to abuse. But the issue is prevalent in adjoining countries too, where forced- begging is a common practice.