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African Development Bank, World Food Programme join hands to help South Sudan fight hunger and malnutrition

The Government of the Republic of South Sudan welcomed a contribution of US$ 43.57 million from the African Development Bank for the implementation of the country’s Short-Term Regional Emergency Response Project (STRERP) on October 24, 2018.

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World Food Programme chief pledges to continue support for displaced Syrians

The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), David Beasley, has ended a three-day visit to Lebanon, Syria and Jordan where he saw WFP operations in the three countries and met with displaced Syrian families in the Bekaa Valley in...

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UN expert calls for international investigation into ‘evident murder’ of Jamal Khashoggi

Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and...

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Meet Nepal’s change-makers

For as long as she could remember, Samjhana wanted to finish school and get an education. She completed secondary school and even managed to convince her father to let her go to college in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, far from her village.

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