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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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Statement attributable to Julien Harneis, UNICEF Representative in Yemen

"The number of children in Yemen who have been killed as a result of conflict over the last 10 weeks is four times that of all those confirmed to have been killed in 2014. At least 279 children have been killed and 402 injured since the escalation of...

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