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A community health worker with UNICEF partner Swiss-Kaalmo, based in Salamey Idale IDP camp in Somalia, goes door to door to spread health messages to mothers and children living in the camp.

Farmers prepare land to plant turmeric. Bheri Ganga village, Surkhet district, western Nepal.

On 5 August 2016 in Aleppo city in the Syrian Arab Republic, a child with spinal muscular atrophy who needs special medical care, now lives on the streets of western Aleppo city, after fleeing with her family from attacks and intense fighting.

On 17 February 2017 in Juba, Hellen Maneno holds her baby Emmanuel Laki, a child with severe malnutrition, at the malnutrition ward in Al Shabbab hospital in Juba, South Sudan.

In February 2016, villagers gather at the Ula Arba water point, in Ziway Dugda Woreda, Arsi zone Oromia region, Ethiopia.

As fighting spreads in Yemen in February 2017, a recently displaced family receives UNHCR assistance, a tent to live in, in the coastal governate of Al Hudaydah. Some 34,000 people fled their homes in Al Mokha and Dhubab districts as the conflict intensified.

On 5 February, a woman plays with her 2-year-old son, Kuot Kune, at the UNICEF-supported Al-Shabbah Children’s Hospital, where Kuot is being treated for severe acute malnutrition, in Juba, the capital.

On 27 May, a soldier with an AK-47 rifle slung over his right shoulder stands near children just released from armed groups, in Bangui, the capital.

Displaced women and children under a hot sun in South Sudan's Maban County, where food shortages are causing tension.

The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, are very concerned that critical shortages in food assistance are affecting some 2 million refugees in 10 countries across Africa.