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Germany has contributed €25.5 million (US$28.5 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist more than 710,000 hungry people in the four-nation Lake Chad Basin region that is battling a Boko Haram insurgency.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is constructing a Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) in the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) –the northern area of Pakistan, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada. This will be the seventh HRF built in Pakistan as part of a strategic network of storage facilities to help the Government and humanitarian community better prepare for and respond to disasters.

August 17, 2007. Resma, 9, illuminates the platform below her neighbour's tin roof where she and her family took refuge during the storm, in the village of Amua in Barisal District. The area was one of the hardest hit by Cyclone Sidr.

A nine-year-old child and his younger, eight-year-old, brother sit in their room, drawing and colouring. They are living live with foster parents in Lipova commune, Bacau county, Romania.

An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan.

A textile factory in Lesotho.

Stanislava is a 15-year-old girl. After her birth she was placed in several old type state institutions for children. Now she lives in a family type placement center (small group home) for children with disabilities and attends mainstream school.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is concerned about about the humanitarian conditions inside western Mosul’s old city, where as many as 180,000 people are reportedly hungry and living in miserable conditions.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is deploying cutting-edge blockchain technology to make cash-based transfers faster, cheaper and more secure.

The UN held a wreath-laying ceremony honouring fallen peacekeepers in observance of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers (29 May). A peacekeeper taking part in the ceremony.