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A girl takes a shot during a basketball training session in Mogadishu, Somalia.

On 13 February 2017, first grade students participate in a drill to practice their response to a shelling by taking cover in a part of the school building with strong walls beacuse the school doesnt have a basement.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on April 6th, announced the appointment of internationally acclaimed actress and philanthropist Kristin Davis as its Goodwill Ambassador.

Meeting of the Security Council to discuss the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Khan Shaykhun area of southern Idlib, Syria.

Families that fled fighting in eastern Aleppo, Syria, take refuge in a large warehouse in Jibreen.

Syrian refugees draw water at Kawergosk camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, in March 2014. The Syria conflict is now in its seventh year.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US $3.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan to provide desperately needed food assistance to tens of thousands of internally displaced people in Northeast Nigeria on Apr 04.

Boarding a pirate vessel off the coast of Somalia.

As the ‘Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria and the Region’ opens, UNHCR and UNDP – on behalf of the 240 international and national partners and the host governments in the region – are extremely concerned by the current low funding levels of the response to help millions of Syrian refugees and the communities hosting them.

Boys pass rubble and destroyed buildings on their way to a nearby private school offering basic lessons, in the city of Maarat al-Numaan, Idlib Governorate.