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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon holds press conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with Senior Advisors summing up activities as part of 26th African Union Summit.

A woman draws water from a collection tank in the ground, in Melbana Village, Mio District, in Ethiopia’s drought-affected Borena Zone. The collection tank has just been filled by a tanker truck delivering emergency water supplies.

Whereas on the public side of this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the well-heeled Establishment held forth as usual on an eclectic array of topics, and private conversations behind-the-scenes were dominated chiefly by panic over the escalating financial crash of the trans/Atlantic sector, Chinese President Xi Jinping did something much more important: With a spectacular trip to Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Iran, he laid the basis for the integration of Southwest Asia into the New Silk Road, and thereby created the prerequisite for ending the conflict between Shi’a and Sunni in the region. With the perspective for reconstruction and development offered by China, the concrete opportunity suddenly arises to overcome the refugee crisis by rebuilding the migrants’ devastated home countries.

On the eve of a major world conference on the Syria crisis, the British people will get the chance to play their part in transforming the lives of children caught up in the conflict, International Development Secretary Justine Greening announced on 30 January.

U.S. and coalition military forces have continued to attack Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant terrorists in Syria and Iraq, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported on January 29.

Shoppers throng the commercial hub of Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan. Here people can buy mobile phones, groceries, even wedding dresses.

Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura speaks to the press on the Intra-Syrian discussions which will take place in Geneva on 29 January 2016.

Congolese refugees line up to board a UNHCR truck heading from Ezo, in South Sudan's Western Equatoria State, to a new settlement at Makpandu.

The start of EU accession negotiations with Serbia and the progress made in normalising relations between Serbia and Kosovo was welcomed by Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs in two resolutions passed on Thursday. They also stressed that these relations would be helped if all EU member states were to recognise Kosovo.

On 24 January 2016, officials from the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) visited Anka and Umm Rai, North Darfur, and interacted with the displaced population who spoke about their concerns regarding the lack of food, shelter, water resources and medical facilities.