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36,000 migrant children are in need of assistance in Libya, figures revealed on International Migrants Day show. Out of an estimated 400,000 migrants, nine per cent are children and, shockingly, more than 14,000 children are also unaccompanied.

A young child walking through the Chonkhola camp for Rohingya refugees in Chakdhala, Bangladesh. Refugees are unable to leave the camp; due to a diphtheria outbreak, everyone must be vaccinated before they can be moved to the main camps around Kutupalong.

As the security situation in eastern Ukraine deteriorates, Ertugrul Apakan, Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), called for restraint and full adherence to the agreed ceasefire, on December 19.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on December 18 released a set of recommendations to the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU).

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Mr. Edward Kallon, strongly deplores the deadly ambush on a convoy carrying humanitarian food supplies for conflict-affected persons on Saturday 16 December, and expressed grave concern over the limitations that attacks of this nature may have on the delivery of life-saving supplies to people in need in north-east Nigeria.

A power outage at the international airport in the southern U.S. city of Atlanta has disrupted all flights in and out of the hub.

Interpol has canceled the Red Corner Notice it issued on the request of the Indian government against controversial Islamic scholar Zakir Naik, citing insufficient evidence against Naik. But India’s National Investigative Agency (NIA) said it will file a fresh request.

UNHCR staff and Niger government officials meet refugees off an evacuation flight from Libya at Diori Hamani International Airport in the capital, Niamey, in November.

President Donald Trump is set to unveil on Monday his strategy to counter what he considers the most dire global threats to the United States.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey hopes to open an embassy to a Palestinian state in East Jerusalem in the future..