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WFP Ends Emergency Operation That Helped Many Cope With Severe Drought In Swaziland

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has phased out its emergency operation in Swaziland, after helping up to 230,000 people through drought over the past year. The close of the operation – carried out in support of the Government’s national...

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Myanmar’s investments in children’s early development are paying dividends

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A midwife provides a regular health check for a pregnant woman in Tone Le Village, Tone Le Sub Centre, Nyaung Shwe...

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1 in 5 children in rich countries lives in relative income poverty, 1 in 8 faces food insecurity – UNICEF

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Walid Mechrhale, 14, stands outside the Alkadia youth centre, in the city of Turin, Piedmont Region, Italy.

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General Assembly approves creation of new UN Counter-Terrorism Office

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Peter Thomson (left), President of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly. At his side is...

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