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World Hunger Again On The Rise, Driven By Conflict And Climate Change, New UN Report Says

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on world food security and nutrition...

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Civilian Joint Task Force in Northeast Nigeria Signs Action Plan to End Recruitment of Children

The UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, and UNICEF in Nigeria welcome the signing by the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, of an Action Plan to end and...

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DR Congo: Children’s access to education under threat from ongoing violence in Kasai region

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After a year of disruption and uncertainty, children are returning to school in the Kasai. The classroom is an important...

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UN condemns DPRK ballistic missile launch; stresses country cease such activities

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Secretary-General António Guterres.

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