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‘Essential shifts’ needed for UN to tackle new peacekeeping challenges, report reveals

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Special intervention brigade forces from Tanzania, part of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of...

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South Sudan: amid ‘intensifying’ crisis, UN and European Union mobilize $275 million in aid

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In Pathai, a settlement in Jonglei State, South Sudan, persons displaced by conflict await registration...

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Some 23,000 refugees flee latest Syria fighting into southern Turkey

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A Syrian refugee lifts a little girl over a broken border fence into Turkish territory, near the Turkish Akcakale border...

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UNHCR calls for urgent European support for Greece

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A child sleeps outside the screening centre at Moria on Lesvos. Refugees and migrants live in tents outside the screening...

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