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The humanitarian crisis that the Central African Republic endured last year persists. Due to violence perpetrated by armed groups, more than one in four Central Africans is either internally displaced or a refugee. In one year, the number of internally displaced persons has increased by more than 70 percent since the first quarter of 2017. This has prevented thousands of children from enjoying their basic right to education. The combination of these factors means that by 2018, 2.5 million Central Africans will need humanitarian assistance.

The attack reportedly targeting the offices of a humanitarian organisation in Jalalabad, Nangarhar, killed two people and wounded a dozen, including five children, according to initial information.

Two girls speak to a psychologist using a mobile phone in rural sindhupalchowk, Nepal. In the background, a house lies in ruin, destroyed by the devastating 2015 earthquakes in country.

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Justin Forysyth meeting Rohingya refugee families in Kutapalong refugee camp, Bangladesh.

The European Parliament should shrink from 751 to 705 MEPs when the UK leaves the EU, to make room for EU-wide electoral lists, say Constitutional Affairs MEPs.

UNICEF representative in Yemen Meritxell Relaño checks on a boy suffering from malnutrition at Al-Sabeen Hospital, Sana’a, Yemen.

Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, addresses the Security Council on the situation in Mali.

Pierre Krähenbühl, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, speaks at the launch of the fundraising campaign.

Newly appointed President of Liberia, George Weah (centre left), walks with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (centre right) during the inauguration ceremony in Monrovia.

After announcing the United States would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by the end of 2019, Vice President Mike Pence wraps up a four-day Middle East trip Tuesday by meeting with Israel's president and making visits to a Holocaust remembrance center and the Western Wall.