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U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria on March 31, 2017 yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported on April 1, 2017.

Despite international efforts to address food insecurity, around 108 million people in the world were severely food insecure in 2016, a dramatic increase compared with 80 million in 2015, according to a new global report on food crises released in Brussels on Mar 31.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres interacting with a child at the Hassan Sham camp in northern Iraq.

Nur Ismail, 3, is treated for acute watery diarrhoea at the cholera treatment centre in Bay Regional Hospital, Baidoa, Bay region. His father, Hassan Ismail, is by his side.

The Mahmut family from Syria began a new life in Ottawa in 2016, under Canada’s humanitarian programme to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.

David Beasley.

An aerial view of the town of Kananga in DRC’s Kasaï-Central province outside which the remains of the two experts were found.

UNICEF welcomes the Italian Parliament for passing an historic law to boost support and protection for the record number of foreign unaccompanied and separated children who arrived in Italy – nearly 26,000 in 2016. With nearly 2,000 foreign children arriving on the Mediterranean in the first two months of 2017, the upward trend in arrivals is expected to continue this year making this law timely and relevant.