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Men and boys who “turn a blind eye” to violence against women, must accept that they are “accomplices to violence” according to the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed.

a cargo flight from WFP’s newly established Global Humanitarian Response Hub in Liège, Belgium arrived in Burkina Faso carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical cargo and personal protective equipment like masks and gloves on behalf of UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

A Rohingya refugee family sit in the doorway of their new monsoon-ready shelter in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.

Children use their tablet to learn in a village on the outskirts of Kassala in Eastern Sudan.

Seven suspects accused of taking just over $132 million from VBS Mutual bank in South Africa have pleaded not guilty to dozens of fraud and theft charges.

A first batch of 10,000 COVID-19 tests arrived in Sana’a on a UNICEF-chartered plane , to increase the COVID-19 testing capacity amid the rapid increase of cases in Yemen on June 18. An additional shipment of 8,000 tests is expected to arrive in Aden in the coming days.

The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission could get a report from Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield Friday that could move the South American country closer to confirming the results of March presidential and regional elections.

South Korea's unification minister resigned Friday over heightened tensions on the Korean Peninsula, days after the North destroyed its liaison office with the South.

South Africa will soon begin reopening full-service restaurants and casinos under strict conditions after nearly three months of being under lockdown restriction to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.