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A swarm of desert locusts fill the sky near a farm.

More funding needed to combat locust swarms ‘unprecedented in modern times’

UN peacekeepers patrol the PK5 neighborhood of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic

Central African Republic: Security Council reflects on peace deal anniversary

Africa Security Council

Victims of the Ebola virus disease have been buried at a cemetery in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Newly licensed vaccine, ‘milestone in the fight’ against Ebola in Africa, UN health agency

Central African President, Faustin Archange Touadera, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the Chairman of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat and 14 armed groups initialed the Central African peace and reconciliation agreement over a year ago,

Year-old peace agreement must be implemented for ‘lasting peace’ in Central African Republic

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres, addressing the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 9 February, 2020.

AU Summit: Guterres calls for ‘collective, comprehensive, coordinated’ response to challenges facing Africa

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UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi meets internally displaced people in Burkina Faso’s Centre-North region.

Africa’s Sahel: Act now before the crisis ‘becomes unmanageable’, urges Grandi

IOM helped Mohammad Ahmad to set up a shop in OMduram market, near Khartoum, Sudan.

How mobile money is rebuilding lives in Sudan

The UN refugee agency has launched cash-for-work programmes which employ youth from host communities in Awaradi, Niger, to make bricks.

FROM THE FIELD: Niger supporting the most vulnerable, as crises mount

Pictured is some of the damage caused to the humanitarian hub in Ngala town, Borno State, Nigeria.

Major humanitarian hub in northeast Nigeria burned in attack