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Bartalla Camp.

Though the battle for Mosul has ended, extensive damage to homes and essential infrastructure has left thousands of displaced families with nothing to return to and in continued need of emergency food assistance to survive.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached two new locations in Raqqa governorate with food assistance, using a newly opened land route that has allowed access for the first time in three years to Mansoura and other rural areas north of Raqqa city.

War-torn Yemen is facing the world's worst cholera outbreak, the UN recently said.

While drinking water from a hand pump, a child smiles, in Mzuzu, the capital of Northern Region and the third largest city, by population, in Malawi.

President Donald Trump has postponed a final decision on whether to permanently lift economic sanctions against Sudan for another three months.

A U.S. judge in Detroit has halted the deportation of nearly 1,500 Iraqis, many of them Christians, pending full consideration of their claims for asylum.

The World Food Programme (WFP) in Mauritania welcomes vital contributions worth US$5 million from the governments of Germany, Japan, the European Union (ECHO), France, Spain, and Monaco, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Two women and a baby in a village near the city of Makeni, in the northern province of Sierra Leone.

A contribution of US$20 million from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) will enable the World Food Programme (WFP) in Afghanistan to provide food assistance to more than 577,000 people in need. Nearly 70 percent of the money will be spent in Afghanistan to buy locally-milled, nutrient-enriched flour and salt.