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Joint Government And WFP Programme Helps Ultra-Poor Cope Better With Effects Of Climate Change

People are less likely to sell assets, go into debt or resort to skipping meals when their lives are disrupted by the effects of climate change, if they have received a simple package of training and cash grants, a new study has shown.

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WFP Appreciates China’s Support For More Than 15,000 Syrian Refugees In Lebanon

The World Food Programme (WFP) received this month a generous donation of US$500,000 from the People’s Republic of China to support WFP to provide food assistance for some 15,700 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugees in January.

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Responses to global ills must integrate peace and sustainable development, UN Member States told

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Secretary-General António Guterres (left) with Peter Thomson, President of the General Assembly, at the high-level...

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Schools reopen in East Mosul as violence subsides

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On 23 January, students go to class at a school in eastern Mosul. Schools are starting...

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