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Up to 10, 000 people across the Gambia are set to receive cash assistance from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), enabling them to buy food and meet their immediate needs.

In the photo: Ahmed, 3 years old, receives treatment for moderate acute malnutrition in a hospital in Hajjah, Yemen.

Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Martin Kobler briefs the Security Council.

Meeting on Russia featuring (middle) Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze

Displaced residents talk to UNHCR staff in the front line village of Luhanske, in eastern Ukraine.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, on February 7, launched a major campaign to spread awareness about the dangers of crossing the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea from Africa to war-stricken Yemen and highlighting the horrendous conditions and rising risks in Yemen.

A groundbreaking study of the impact of child undernutrition on Mali’s economy has launched in Mali. The latest in a series known as the Cost of Hunger in Africa (COHA) surveys, it will examine the effects of child undernutrition on health, education and national productivity in the country. It is being made possible by the generous support of the Government of Canada.

Permanent headquarters of the International Criminal Court at The Hague.

A family climbs out of their destroyed home to flee minutes after an ISIL suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle on the street outside their home in the Al Andalus neighbourhood of Mosul, Iraq.

Secretary-General António Guterres.