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EU Contributed Over €1 Billion to WFP In The Fight Against Hunger in 2017

Last year, the European Commission contributed over €1 billion to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), making it the second-largest donor to the agency in 2017. Millions of people across 48 countries had better access to lifesaving and...

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UNICEF seeks $3.6 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in catastrophic humanitarian crises

10-month-old Atica, a Rohingya refugee, sips water from a mug held by her sister, 11-year-old Musaddeka, after...

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Trump Issues Order to Keep Guantanamo Open

A new executive order, issued as U.S. President Donald Trump gave his State of the Union address, cancels a 2009 order in which President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba.

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UNHCR and partners seeks US$157 million to aid Boko Haram displaced

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, together with humanitarian partners, on Januray 31, launched an inter-agency funding appeal for US$157 million to help over a quarter of a million people affected by the Boko Haram insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin region...

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