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A crowd of journalists in Maluku transit camp, on the outskirts of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where citizens of that country, deported from Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, have gathered. (23 May 2014).

The lives of nearly a quarter of a million children are at significant risk as food and nutrition security rapidly deteriorate in parts of South Sudan, UNICEF said on May 27. The crisis comes as a result of ongoing conflict, diminished household food stocks and a shrinking economy.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has delivered more than 21 tonnes of critical life-saving medicines and medical/surgical supplies to Yemen.

More women and children have been used as suicide bombers in Northeast Nigeria in the first five months of this year than during the whole of last year, according to reports collated by UNICEF.

Refugees and migrants risk their lives travelling from Africa to Europe in over-crowded and unseaworthy vessels to escape persecution and violence or simply to find a better life.

UNHCR is trucking in clean water as one of the responses to the cholera outbreak in the Kagunga area of Tanzania.

The UN refugee agency and its partners are preparing aid for some 11,000 people who fled the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra and surrounding villages when they were overrun by militant forces this week.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.

The police in Bujumbura, Burundi, have increasingly broken up opposition party gatherings.