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Secretary-General António Guterres speaks to journalists at a press encounter.

People displaced by the floods take temporary refuge along a road in southern Nepal.

Children play table football in Bangui’s airport Mpoko camp for internally displaced persons.

Burkina Faso's security forces have ended their operation against suspected Islamic militants who opened fire on a restaurant in the country's capital, killing at least 18 people and wounding eight.

The United Nations says gunmen have attacked a U.N. peacekeeping base in the northern Mali city of Timbuktu, killing seven people.

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.