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Young friends at Bangui’s Mpoko airport site for displaced people, Central African Republic, November 2015

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a US$15 million emergency contribution from the Government of Japan to support WFP’s response to the refugee crisis in Bangladesh.

Families in Kani Bardina village, Sulaymaniyah governorate, receive health check-ups and assistance from IOM Iraq Mobile Medical team, following an earthquake on the evening 12 November.

This Italian Navy landing craft is carrying 186 people who have been rescued at sea.

Russia on Thursday vetoed a U.S.-sponsored Security Council resolution that would have extended the international probe into chemical weapons use in Syria.

In order to give new impetus to cooperation and the development of African nations, MEPs recommend a new EU-Africa strategy also aimed at strengthening the resilience of African countries, in a resolution adopted on Thursday.

The EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Council (SA Council) held its fourth meeting on 16 November 2017. This meeting was chaired by Ms Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Ms Ana Brnabic, Prime Minister of Serbia, led the Serbian delegation. Mr Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, represented the European Commission.

Two children in a Bronx, New York, school solidifying their friendship with a spontaneous expression of mutual understanding.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extremely concerned by the destruction this week of food intended for hungry people in the besieged enclave of Eastern Ghouta, about 15 kilometres from the Syrian capital, Damascus. The food was destroyed during fighting inside the enclave when food distribution points belonging to one of WFP’s local partners in Duma were hit. Fortunately, no people were in the buildings at the time of the strikes.