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Food costs should cause 'shock and outrage' as countries in conflict see spiralling prices

Fresh research by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), released to coincide with World Food Day, shows food becoming ever less affordable in countries in conflict or subject to political instability. In dozens more countries, persistently...

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UN relief official in Yemen condemns ‘horrific’ attack on passenger buses

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A bridge damaged by an air strike in Yemen’s Hudaydah governorate (file photo). Over 170 people have been...

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80 per cent of school children returned to school in Ebola-affected areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

One month after the beginning of the school year, 80 per cent of school-aged children have returned to school in Beni and Mabalako health zones, the two epicentres of the current Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)....

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Improve collection of data on disasters, Secretary-General Guterres urges on International Day

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A ten-year-old child stands in front of his home, which was destroyed by the tsunami in Central Sulawesi.

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