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Night time view of Baku, Azerbaijan.

IOM buses transport South Sudanese refugees from Pagak entry point to the Gore-Shembola refugee camp.

The Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) signed an agreement in support of WFP’s new five-year programme, which is designed to help the Government of Lao PDR achieve the Sustainable Development Goal targets, as well as Middle Income Country status on May 05.

WFP provides support to nearly seven million refugees in more than thirty countries.

Rohingya refugees, displaced by violence in Myanmar, at a camp in Coxs Bazar, Bangladesh.

"Cooperation between our two parliaments has emerged stronger from this Tunisian week", said European Parliament Vice-President David-Maria Sassoli as the event closed on Thursday. "We must now give concrete form to the shared experiences and good practices, to benefit all our citizens", he added.

Without urgent action to address stagnating levels of competitiveness, Africa’s economies will not create enough jobs for the young people entering the job market, according to a report released on May 4th. If current policies remain unchanged, fewer than one-quarter of the 450 million new jobs needed in Africa in the next 20 years will be created.

ED Beasley (center) and Regional Director Muhannad Hadi (left) speaking to Nagwan, an elderly 73-year-old woman displaced from her home in Syria. She depends on WFP food assistance so as not to overburden her brother, who has been hosting her since the Syrian conflict began.

Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura.

Journalists wait for the arrival of official delegations at the Geneva II Conference on Syria, in Montreux, Switzerland.