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The Government of China has made its largest single donation to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) with US$34 million towards its emergency operations to support people who are at risk of famine in Somalia, Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen, as well as those affected by severe food shortages in Kenya and Chad.

A girl displaced with her family by Boko Haram insurgents from their home on an island in Lake Chad, in Melea village, Lake Region, Chad.

People queue to fill containers with water from a tank provided by UNICEF in Sana'a, Yemen. Some 14.5 million people in the country have no access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation.

The Government of Japan has made a US$3.7 million contribution to food and nutrition security activities run by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF in Malawi. Of this sum, US$2.57 million went to WFP and US$1.13 million to UNICEF.

April 18, 2017 (centre) Syrian refugee and education activist Muzoon Almellehan speaks with [NAME CHANGED] Hassima, 16, a Nigerian refugee who escaped Boko Haram captivity.

WFP is scaling up its operations to try to avert famine in Somalia, with an aim to reach more than two million drought-affected people with lifesaving food and nutrition assistance within six months.

Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) addresses the Financing for Peace event at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings. At second left is the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim.

Risking their lives to reach Europe from North Africa, a boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy.

The crisis in the Greater Kasaï region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having a devastating impact on children, UNICEF warned on Apr 21. More than 1.5 million children, including 600,000 who have already been displaced from their homes, are at risk due to the extreme violence.

Students at a university library in Rabat, Morocco.