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UN food relief agency to double aid to Niger’s conflict-torn Diffa region

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A child wanders in the refugee camp of Assaga, near Diffa, Niger. More than 135 displacement sites have...

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African youth to African leaders: “You must do more to end conflicts in Africa”

African leaders are not doing enough to stop conflicts in Africa, said two-thirds of the nearly 86,000 youth surveyed in a recent mobile-based poll conducted in nine African countries.

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“If you try to run, they shoot you; if you stop working they beat you. It was just like the slave trade.”

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Twins Aimamo and Ibrahim, 16, at a beach in Trabia, Italy, on May 14, 2016. They live at Rainbow, a center for...

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In Brussels, Ban urges joint efforts against terrorism and in addressing displacement

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, address the at a...

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