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As fighting spreads in Yemen in February 2017, a recently displaced family receives UNHCR assistance, a tent to live in, in the coastal governate of Al Hudaydah. Some 34,000 people fled their homes in Al Mokha and Dhubab districts as the conflict intensified.

On 5 February, a woman plays with her 2-year-old son, Kuot Kune, at the UNICEF-supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital, where Kuot is being treated for severe acute malnutrition, in Juba, the capital.

On 27 May, a soldier with an AK-47 rifle slung over his right shoulder stands near children just released from armed groups, in Bangui, the capital.

Displaced women and children under a hot sun in South Sudan's Maban County, where food shortages are causing tension.

The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, are very concerned that critical shortages in food assistance are affecting some 2 million refugees in 10 countries across Africa.

Billboards displaying a variety of advertisements along a street in Mogadishu, capital of the Horn of Africa nation Somalia.

An OSCE-supported five-day training course on presentation skills for instructors of the National Security Committee’s Border Guard Service and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre for Combating Illicit Trafficking of Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors (CARICC) concluded on 17 February 2017 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

BRUNSWICK, Maine - A CH-53E Super Stallion with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 lands in snow during Exercise Frigid Condor near Brunswick, Maine, Jan. 22, 2017. HMH-464 conducted the exercise to increase the squadron’s operational readiness in extreme conditions. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is investigating ways to potentially detect supercooled liquid clouds from the air, which can cause hazardous icing conditions for aircraft.

The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada (Ceta) received Parliament’s backing on Wednesday and the next day the country's prime minister addressed MEPs. “With Ceta, together we have built something important. Especially at this moment, on your continent and mine," Trudeau said. He added: "Europe is a vital player in addressing the challenges we face as an international community."

President Donald Trump has launched a deadly serious War on Drugs. On Feb. 8, in a speech before the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association (MCCA) in Washington, the President said that the drug scourge was destroying the potential of America’s youth and America’s future, and must be crushed, naming the newly installed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Gen (ret.) John Kelly, as the man to lead the effort.