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South Sudan famine ebbs, but situation still desperate as hunger spreads

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Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in...

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As crises multiply, UN revises annual aid appeal to assist over 100 million around the world

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A medical worker registers young patients in the small rural village of An-Nassiri, located about...

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World population to hit 9.8 billion by 2050, despite nearly universal lower fertility rates – UN

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A view of passengers aboard trains connecting the suburbs of Kolkata, India.

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Statement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, on returns to northeast Nigeria

I am extremely worried that large numbers of Nigerian refugees hosted in Cameroon are again returning to northeast Nigeria - into a situation dangerously unprepared to receive them.

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