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UN officials condemn ‘virtual silence’ about escalating violence in Yemen

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Faj Attan neighbourhood in Sana’a, Yemen, is regularly hit by airstrikes. Most of the population has left.

Libyan parties reach consensus on main elements of political agreement – UN envoy

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Special Representative and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) Bernardino León.

One war forced a family to flee Somali, and now another has forced them to return

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A boat from Yemen docks at the port of Bossaso in the Puntland of Somalia, the main entry point for people arriving from Yemen...

UNHCR urges full and swift implementation of European Commission proposals on refugee crisis

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A father cradling his sick child waits in the rain to board a bus to a police pre-registration centre in Hungary.