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A woman purchasing cabbage from a farmer in a vegetable field in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a Fighting Famine” campaign in Spain to warn about the severe food crisis that puts 20 million people at risk of dying of hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the Northeast of Nigeria. In these places, 1.4 million children are suffering from severe malnutrition and their lives are at risk.

The UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, at a special International Youth Day event in Baghdad, hosted by the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Iraq.

Displaced Aleppo, Syria, residents wait in line to receive food distributed by the World Food Programme.

The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a contribution of US$8 million from the Government of Germany to WFP’s recovery operation in South Sudan on Aug 11. The funds will enable WFP to support initiatives to strengthen the resilience of over 180,000 people through food assistance and cash transfers.

IOM staff assists Somali and Ethiopian migrants who were forced into the sea by smugglers.

A mother with her children in Monguno, Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

UNICEF Regional Director Geert Cappelaere meets children at a UNICEF-supported Child Friendly Space in the Municipality of Janzour in Tripoli, Libya.

Canada's consular affairs office said Thursday that one of its diplomats in Cuba was suffering from the same mysterious hearing loss that apparently forced several U.S. diplomats to leave Havana.

Guam’s governor says his Pacific island is concerned but not in a panic in the face of new threats by North Korea to launch ballistic missiles toward the U.S. territory located about 3,400 kilometers from Pyongyang.