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The Government of Japan has contributed $US2.7 million to UN World Food Programme (WFP) operations in Mozambique. This will allow us to assist more than 82,000 drought-hit farmers in Gaza and Sofala provinces for three months, through programmes designed to restore livelihoods and improve resilience to climate change.

The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Morocco signed a financing agreement to improve the living conditions of rural people in mountain areas and reduce poverty by 30 per cent by 2030 on Dec 19.

Children and their parents gather around a fire to keep warm in the yard of a large warehouse in Jibreen, now used as a shelter for thousands of families who fled violence in eastern Aleppo.

With the situation in Aleppo, Syria’s war has reached an historic low. A great city and its population are in tatters and catastrophic failings have been exposed in the international community’s collective resolve. Together with other organizations, UNHCR is doing what it can for the many thousands of civilians who have been forced to flee.

The World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a one-million euro contribution from the European Union through the Instrument Contributing to Stability and Peace. This contribution takes the EU’s financial support to WFP in the Lake Chad region to 4,5 million euros. It will allow WFP to provide more than emergency relief for 12,500 families, comprised of 62,500 very vulnerable people in the west of the Sahelian belt.

More than 3 million Iraqis have been displaced by conflict since mid-June 2014.

The Executive Board of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) approved a new country strategy for Colombia, reaffirming the organization’s commitment to help the country overcome the effects of a 50-year conflict by promoting rural development on Dec 15.

Circa 1946 in Egypt, children, including two boys in a toy wagon made from salvaged wood, play in the UNRRA refugee camp in Tolumbat. Ante Peruvici, holding the teddy bear, is from Yugoslavia.

Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Children in Malawi watch a community drone demonstration in Lilongwe. In March, the Ministry of Health and UNICEF launched the first 10km auto programmed flight to speed up testing and diagnosis of HIV in infants.