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WFP Scales Up Food Delivery In Syria To Raqqa Governorate Through New Land Access

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached two new locations in Raqqa governorate with food assistance, using a newly opened land route that has allowed access for the first time in three years to Mansoura and other rural areas north of...

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Senior UN officials urge concrete action to end Yemen conflict, ease ‘appalling’ humanitarian situation

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War-torn Yemen is facing the world's worst cholera outbreak, the UN recently said.

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2.1 billion people lack safe drinking water at home, more than twice as many lack safe sanitation

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While drinking water from a hand pump, a child smiles, in Mzuzu, the capital of Northern Region and the third largest city...

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President Trump Extends Temporary Sanctions Relief on Sudan

President Donald Trump has postponed a final decision on whether to permanently lift economic sanctions against Sudan for another three months.

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