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EP President Martin Schulz welcoming EU Council President Donald Tusk for a lively debate on the December EU summit outcome and migration measures.

Boats on the shore along Bab el-Mandeb, the narrow strait separating Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. The area is fenced to keep smugglers and kidnappers out.

A makeshift refugee shelter beside the highway east of Diffa, Niger.

A young girl stands outside a tent at the Vinojug reception centre for refugees and migrants in Gevgelija, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

With up to 3,000 refugees and migrants passing through Slovenia each day, UNICEF and the Government of Slovenia Tuesday announced a partnership aimed at improving the care and protection of children on the move.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday called on the Government and all parties in Yemen as well as States in the region to commit to a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire to enable the rapid resumption of already delayed peace talks which the United Nations is facilitating.

United Nations humanitarian agencies expressed concern Monday that an estimated 200,000 people are facing “sharply deteriorating conditions” in the besieged western side of Deir-Ez-Zor city in Syria, while the top UN relief official stressed that the world body continues to act “impartially, neutrally and independently” to reach people in need throughout the country.

The international community must make greater efforts to end the conflict in Syria or risk prolonging the world's biggest humanitarian crisis for many years to come, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on Monday.

Speaking on a visit to Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp three weeks after taking up office, Grandi said he had chosen to travel to the region on his first overseas trip to focus minds on finding solutions to the nearly five-year-old conflict.

Life in the Nizip refugee camp, in south-eastern Turkey, has been a succession of long days and small tasks.

President Schulz condemned the terror attacks in Istanbul and Ouagadougou on 12 and 15 January and called for more EU-wide cooperation to counter terrorism. He pledged that terrorism would be fought on the basis of democratic values, using the police, the rule of law, and EU-wide cooperation.