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‘If you want to protect your image, protect children,’ Ban tells debate on war-affected children

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Children affected by violence attend temporary schools in the refugee camp of Kabelewa. Forced displacement in the Diffa region, Niger's poorest, is becoming regular and is conducted by the armed group Boko Haram.

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Some 60,000 flee recent South Sudan violence, bringing exodus to 900,000 since 2013 – UN

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Refugees from South Sudan arrive in Elegu, northern Uganda.

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UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor visits refugee and displaced children on Iraq frontline

UNICEF Ambassador Ewan McGregor travelled to northern Iraq last week to see how the conflicts sweeping across Iraq and Syria are devastating children’s lives. Tens of thousands of children have been killed, injured, separated from their parents, forced to work, tortured and recruited into fighting.

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Yemen: Focusing on local suppliers, UN agency reaches thousands more in need of food aid

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WFP provides food vouchers to 55,000 people in hard-to-reach district of Taiz city, Al Qahira, Yemen.

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On Friendship Day, Ban says lives can be enriched, future enhanced through unity and camaraderie

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Young Children at the ELCRN hostel in Otjimbingwe, Namibia.

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Weather app reaches half a million downloads

With changeable weather as the school holidays get into full swing UK Met Office weather app comes into its own.

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PACE rapporteur demands explanations over far-reaching media restrictions in Turkey

The General Rapporteur on media freedom of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly has warned that sweeping new restrictions on the media in Turkey could “undermine public trust” in its institutions and hand a victory to the instigators of the failed coup d’état.

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After Terrorist Attacks, Cooperation With Russia Is Even More Urgent

While France has been hit by five horrendous terror attacks since the beginning of 2015, and brutal attacks have occurred in the same time frame in more than 30 countries (often more than once) in Europe, Asia, the United States, and Africa—the reality of the terrorist threat has now been experienced firsthand in Germany, with the attacks in Würzburg and Munich, whatever the biography or description of the perpetrators turns out to be (whether political Islamists or “self-radicalized” lone assassins). Without a doubt, the problem of international terrorism is one of the major threats to humanity as a whole.

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Yemeni peace talks extended for another week – UN envoy

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In Yemen, internally displaced children stand outside their family tent after the family fled their home in Saada province and found refuge in Darwin camp, in the northern province of Amran.

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93,000 Households from Pastoralists Counties in Kenya to Benefit from a US$77 World Bank Financing

The Government of Kenya on July 30 launched Kenya’s component of the US$197m Regional Pastoral Livelihoods Resilience Project (RPLRP). Over 93,000 households whose livelihoods rely mainly on pastoral activities in the 14 participating counties are expected to benefit directly from the project.

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