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United Nations agencies and NGO partners on January 24, appealed for US$4.63 billion in new funding to continue vital work in addressing the growing needs of refugees from Syria and communities hosting them in neighbouring countries.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a €700,000 contribution from the Government of Spain to support the health and nutritional status of pregnant and breastfeeding women in warn-torn Syria on Jan 23.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of USD 20 million from the Government of the United States of America for emergency food assistance for some 550,000 returnees and displaced people in Afghanistan. This emergency operation has already been running for five months and WFP has reached 200,000 people so far.

Supplies for Deir ez-Zor, Syria, are dropped from a height of 5,000 metres.

On 26 October 2016, following the on-going hostilities in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, newly arrived refugees on the way to the Al-Hol camp, close to the Iraqi border in Syria’s north -eastern Hasakeh Governorate.

German support for WFP in Syria and the region is making a difference for millions affected by the crisis. In Jordan, more than half a million Syrian refugees receive cash assistance to access food and other essentials.

A child takes a dip in a river in the Gambia.

A woman farmer working in a wheat field in rural Nepal.

Drug gangs using mobiles and couriers to deal remotely in UK rural areas, including coastal and market towns, will have phones shut down, under new plans announced by UK Home Secretary on 22 January.

Crops at the periurban agriculture cooperative Vivero Alamar, Cuba.