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World cannot take water for granted, say UN officials at launch of global decade for action

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A woman in rural India carries containers of water to her home. Women in developing countries...

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Food crises continue to strike, and acute hunger intensifies

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Children in a refugee camp in Iraq.

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Japan provides WFP with US$2.5 million to fight malnutrition in Chad's Sahel

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is scaling up nutrition support for 65,000 people in Chad’s fragile Sahel region, thanks to a US$2.5 million contribution from the Government of Japan.

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Syrian Rebels Evacuating Part of Eastern Ghouta

More than 1,500 Syrian rebel fighters and their families are evacuating a town in the besieged Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta as the army moves closer to recapturing the entire capital.

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