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WFP is scaling up its operations to try to avert famine in Somalia, with an aim to reach more than two million drought-affected people with lifesaving food and nutrition assistance within six months.

Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) addresses the Financing for Peace event at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Spring Meetings. At second left is the President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim.

Risking their lives to reach Europe from North Africa, a boatload of people, some of them likely in need of international protection, are rescued in the Mediterranean Sea by the Italian Navy.

The crisis in the Greater Kasaï region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is having a devastating impact on children, UNICEF warned on Apr 21. More than 1.5 million children, including 600,000 who have already been displaced from their homes, are at risk due to the extreme violence.

Students at a university library in Rabat, Morocco.

A family displaced by fighting between ISIS and Iraqi security forces carry their belongings as they walk through the destroyed western neighbourhood of Al Mamum, near Mosul, Iraq.

A boy who is an unaccompanied minor looks across the beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016.

The European Union is focussing this year on delivering results in areas that matter to all Europeans. EU institutions have agreed on a set of priorities ranging from boosting e-commerce to protecting the environment and strengthening borders. Four months into the year, check out which major legislative proposals MEPs have already approved.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes an additional US$2.7 million contribution from the United States to support pregnant and nursing women, and people living with HIV (PLHIV) or TB on anti-retroviral treatment. The funding will be used to buy, transport and distribute fortified blended food for the treatment of malnutrition among these vulnerable groups, whose situation has been made worse by the recent drought.

Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium, right) and Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission, address the press following the signing of a Joint UN-AU Framework for Enhancing Partnerships on Peace and Security.