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1 million children affected by Cyclone Idai and subsequent floods in Mozambique, actual numbers feared much higher

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On 21 March 2019 in Mozambique, Helcio Filipe Antonio holds a boy named Anderson Tackdi the Samora Michel High School...

‘Mosques should be safe havens, not sites of terror’, says Guterres announcing UN plan to help safeguard religious sites

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres visit to the Islamic Cultural Centre of New York, on 22...

More children killed by unsafe water, than bullets, says UNICEF chief

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In the makeshift camp at Ain Issa, 50 km north of the Raqqa in the Syrian Arab Republic,...

Cyclone Idai: emergency getting ‘bigger by the hour’, warns UN food agency

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Food distribution in Beira, Mozambique. At this school turned into a shelter, 70 families...