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African leaders are not doing enough to stop conflicts in Africa, said two-thirds of the nearly 86,000 youth surveyed in a recent mobile-based poll conducted in nine African countries.

Twins Aimamo and Ibrahim, 16, at a beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016. They live at Rainbow, a center for unaccompanied boys.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, address the at a joint news conference.

The European Commission (EC) and the World Bank Group (WBG) on 14 June announced their commitment to strengthen joint action on sustaining peace and increase development impact in situations affected by fragility, conflict and violence.

If Turkey goes on undermining rule of law principles and stripping Members of the Turkish Parliament of their immunities, then it should not expect to be granted an EU visa-free regime, said Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Tuesday in a debate with Selahattin Demirtaş, co-chair of pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). They also voiced solidarity with Mr Demirtaş’ efforts to revive the Kurdish peace process talks.

General Assembly President Mogens Lykketoft.

His Holiness Pope Francis pays an official visit to WFP headquarters in Rome and addresses the staff.

"The Cotonou Agreement remains unique in the world, and whatever form the next partnership takes, it will have to be tailored to today's world, and include wider civil society participation and stronger parliamentary oversight and diplomacy », said Michèle RIVASI (Greens/EFA, FR), EU Co-President ad interim of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, for its 31st session.

With a multitude of conflicts and crises causing record displacement around the world, resettlement has become an increasingly vital part of UNHCR’s efforts to find solutions and advocate for fairer responsibility-sharing for refugees, a UNHCR report released on 13 June at an annual meeting in Geneva says.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned an attack that occurred early morning in Orlando, Florida, in which 50 people were killed and dozens more were injured, on 12 June.