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WFP Cuts Food Rations For Refugees In Kenya Amidst Funding Shortfalls

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) will cut food rations by 30 percent for the 420,000 refugees in living in Dadaab and Kakuma camps in northern Kenya due to insufficient funding.

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UNICEF appeals for US$76.1 million to assist children affected by the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh

UNICEF is launching a US$76.1 million appeal for its emergency humanitarian response to the Rohingya refugee crisis in southern Bangladesh.

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'Nothing enduring can be built on violence,' UN Assembly President says, recalling words of Gandhi

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The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN...

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For Yemenis and migrants, protracted conflict an 'endless nightmare' – head of UN agency

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A suspected cholera patient is rushed into Al Joumhouri Hospital in Sana’a, Yemen.

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