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Somali families displaced by drought and near-famine conditions last year are now on the move again, with catastrophic flash flooding forcing nearly 175,000 people out of their homes, leaving them more vulnerable to malnutrition and diseases such as Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD) and cholera.

Europe is home to an estimated 5.4 million migrant children

Inside an Afghan radio studio, where women’s voices call for democracy and human rights.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to scale up their collaboration over the next five years and re-affirm their commitment to achieving food security for all in the country on May 03.

A woman and her child in Takasaba, Niger.

A girl receives a dose of vitamin A at a basic health centre in Khan Pur Baga Sher Village in Pakistan's Punjab Province.

Libyan officials say an attack on the country's electoral commission in the capital Tripoli has killed at least 12 people.

At least one of the attackers blew himself up inside while other militants stormed the building.

A judge in Myanmar has rejected a request to throw out the testimony of a witness who said two Reuters reporters on trial for allegedly possessing state secrets were framed by police.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, has condemned the twin suicide attacks on 1 May in the town of Mubi, Adamawa State, north-east Nigeria, that have left dozens of people dead and scores injured in one of the deadliest attacks the town has witnessed.

UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, is grateful to Indonesian and Malaysian authorities for rescuing and disembarking three boats carrying a total of 140 Rohingya refugees who fled Myanmar by sea in April. The refugees are safe and in generally good condition.