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UN and partners seek almost $US500 million to avert humanitarian disaster in Iraq
These two Yazidi ladies were forced to flee their home in northern Iraq to escape from militant forces. They are among the many needing help.
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Security Council condemns South Sudan violence, expresses concern over expulsion of UN relief coordinator
Peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMISS) man a guard post overlooking a POC (Protection of Civilians) site in Juba.
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Iraq on the brink of humanitarian disaster due to surging conflict and massive funding shortfall warns UN
Displaced women and children queue for food distributions in the Al Takiya Al Kasnazaniya Collective Centre encampment in Baghdad Governorate Iraq.
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‘We can no longer stand by and watch,’ UN official says, urging global action against spread of extremism
A woman and her children in a camp for internally displaced persons, in Yola, the capital of Adamawa, Nigeria, after members of the Boko Haram rebel group attacked their home.
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South Sudan fighting triggers new mass displacement, warns UN refugee agency
South Sudanese refugees wait to be registered at a crossing into Ethiopia earlier in 2015.
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Burundi: UN urges return to political dialogue amid ongoing tensions, humanitarian crisis
Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, Said Djinnit speaks to the press in Bujumbura, Burundi on 29 May 2015.
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UN relief wing boosts emergency support to refugees fleeing Burundi crisis
Burundians fleeing pre-election violence rest on the shores of Lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a gruelling 22-hour boat journey. More than 100,000 Burundians have fled over the past month, arriving in Tanzania, Rwanda and the DRC.
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In Iraq, UN reports insecurity and violence taking ‘terrible toll’ on civilians from all communities
The Abu Ghraib Camp where people who have been displaced from Ramadi province in Anbar Governorate have been relocated.
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Kachins chat about the challenges of displacement over the air waves
Internally displaced Kachin teenagers at a camp in Myitkyina, Myanmar.
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Renewed fighting in northern Mali forces 57,000 to flee their homes
A Malian woman with her children outside their makeshift shelter on the grounds of a former hotel in Mopti. Fighting forced them to flee their home in northern Mali.
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