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More than 3 million Iraqis have been displaced by conflict since mid-June 2014.

The Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) approved a new country strategy for Colombia, reaffirming the organization’s commitment to help the country overcome the effects of a 50-year conflict by promoting rural development on Dec 15.

Circa 1946 in Egypt, children, including two boys in a toy wagon made from salvaged wood, play in the UNRRA refugee camp in Tolumbat. Ante Peruvici, holding the teddy bear, is from Yugoslavia.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Children in Malawi watch a community drone demonstration in Lilongwe. In March, the Ministry of Health and UNICEF launched the first 10km auto programmed flight to speed up testing and diagnosis of HIV in infants.

On 26 October 2016, children associated with the Cobra faction wait to be demobilized in Pibor. A total of 145 children from the Cobra Faction and SPLA-IO were disarmed and released by the two armed groups.

The situation in Aleppo following the breakdown of a deal to evacuate rebels and civilians from the long-besieged Syrian city was the focus of a debate in Parliament this morning. Ahead of tomorrow’s EU summit, MEPs described the situation variously as “hell on earth”, a “death factory” and the “meltdown of humanity”. They called for an immediate cessation of hostilities as well as access for humanitarian aid. A number of speakers were highly critical of Russia’s role in the conflict.

A child standing amid debris on a street in Aleppo.

EU member states should “refrain from inciting fear and hatred among their citizens towards migrants and asylum-seekers for political gain”, MEPs say in a resolution on the situation of fundamental rights in the EU, passed on Tuesday.

While finding water is a daily struggle for most family, food is equally difficult to source. As thousands of people lost their homes and their sources of income, they also became unable to properly feed their children.