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Afghanistan: After attack on funeral in Kabul, UN envoy calls for urgent measures to halt cycle of violence

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Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA,...

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Germany Contributes €25.5 Million To WFP’s Emergency Response In Lake Chad Basin

Germany has contributed €25.5 million (US$28.5 million) to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to assist more than 710,000 hungry people in the four-nation Lake Chad Basin region that is battling a Boko Haram insurgency.

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Canada Funds Strategic Humanitarian Response Facility In Gilgit Pakistan

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is constructing a Humanitarian Response Facility (HRF) in the Gilgit Baltistan (GB) –the northern area of Pakistan, thanks to funding from the Government of Canada. This will be the seventh HRF built in...

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1.3 million children urgently need humanitarian assistance after storms batter Bay of Bengal

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August 17, 2007. Resma, 9, illuminates the platform below her neighbour's tin roof...

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