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South Sudan: as top officials spotlight crisis, UN warns of ‘dramatic' decline in food security

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Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos (right) and UNESCO Envoy for Peace and...

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More than 16,000 children lost parents or caregivers to Ebola - many are taken in by the communities: UNICEF

Some 16,600 children are registered as having lost one or both parents, or their primary caregivers to Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but less than 3 per cent have had to be placed outside family or community care, UNICEF said on 6...

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Libya: UN mission condemns attack on oilfield, calls for immediate ceasefire

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Participants at the Libya dialogue, Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 27 January 2015.

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South Sudan: UN agency warns of catastrophic food shortages if conflict continues

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A child sips on therapeutic milk at a hospital in Juba, South Sudan, where nearly one...

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