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A family struggles through a dusty environment in Afghanistan.

Syrian refugee families living in host communities in Jordan are increasingly struggling to meet their basic needs, including educating and protecting their children, UNICEF said on Feb 25, 2018. 85 per cent of registered Syrian refugee children are living below the poverty line, according to UNICEF’s latest assessment.

A WFP staff member doing a headcount in East South Sudan.

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Food for Peace Office just announced a generous 35 million USD in-kind donation to the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Niger.

A woman walks through a village in Chad.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday in favor of a 30-day cease-fire in Syria, and demanded immediate lifting of sieges on war-ravaged enclaves like eastern Ghouta, where, Secretary-General António Guterres warned earlier this week, some 400,000 people are living “in hell on earth.”

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has completed a week of training for the Information Management and Analytical Centre (IMAC) staff of Tajikistan’s Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defence.

The United Nations humanitarian chief on Thursday called for action by the Security Council to halt the appalling destruction of Syria’s eastern Ghouta, where nearly 300 people have reportedly been killed in just the past few days, as “bombs and mortars have rained down on bakeries and medical facilities.”

A Rohingya refugee baby holds on to its mother after reaching the shores of Bangladesh after crossing by boat from Myanmar, in Cox's Bazar district, Bangladesh, November 2017.

Human Rights Watch has accused Somali government authorities of abusing children who are allegedly associated with militant group al-Shabab.