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Syrian refugees crowd around an office in Domiz refugee camp in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Members of a family sit outside their simple home in northern Afghanistan's Faryab province.

Special Representative and head of the UN peacekeeping mission, known as MINUSCA Babacar Gaye (left) encourages ex-combatants to join the road to peace in the Central African Republic (CAR).

Somali refugees board a plane to return to Mogadishu from Dadaab camp in Kenya.

A refugee from Yemen hides from the scorching sun in Obock, northern Djibouti. Obock has become a safe haven for hundreds of people fleeing increasingly violent conflict in Yemen.

US President Barack Obama (left) greets Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on his arrival at the White House.

Young Congolese refugees in Zemio camp in Central African Republic.

Abu Seif began managing the camp less than three months ago. As the Imam of the local mosque, he had watched for more than a year as violence in neighbouring Anbar forced civilians from their homes.

Participants at the High Level Partnership Forum in Mogadishu, Somalia.

In Maderia, Ethiopia, health extension worker Elsebeth Aklilu takes a break from counselling women and their children on best nutrition practices, to breastfeed her own 10-month-old son.