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Parliament gave its green light for €100 million in EU emergency aid for refugees within the EU and €2 million to hire new staff for the EU law enforcement agency EUROPOL’s European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC), in a vote on Wednesday. Given the urgency of these measures, MEPs fast-tracked their approval of the funds, in the first draft amending budget of 2016. The procedure was completed in just over a month.

Internally displaced children walk home from a UNHCR supported school in Altos de la Florida, Soacha, Colombia.

Parliament calls on member states to honour their pledges and speed up the relocation of asylum seekers from Greece and Italy

A displaced Congolese woman sits outside a shelter in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, 2014 file photo.

Salta Bintou Hassan, 11, lost her arm after a suicide attack on Bagasola market, Chad, in October 2015. She spent two months in hospital in the capital, N'Djamena.

A wide view of the proceedings on informal dialogues with candidates for the position of UN Secretary-General.

In Somaliland and Puntland, close to two million people are affected by the drought amid the El Niño phenomenon.

A mother feeds her two youngest children outside their tent in a makeshift camp near Idomeni.

The market place in Basateen, the Somali-majority area of Aden in south Yemen has a mix of food stalls, qat sellers and craftsmen.

A WFP air drop.