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Students at the Hamar Jajab School in Mogadishu, Somalia on 20 January 2015. UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

Hailing Somalia’s ratification, UN renews call for universalization of child rights treaty

Displaced Central African Republic families in Mpoko site for internally displaced persons, October 2014. Photo: OCHA/Gemma Cortes.

Top UN relief official calls for end to Central African Republic violence, resumption of aid

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Rwandan refugees, who fled the genocide, returning in July 1994 from Goma, Zaire, (now the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC). UN Photo/John Isaac

One of Africa’s longest-standing refugee situations set to end soon, says UN agency

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President of the seventieth session of the General Assembly, Mogens Lykketoft (centre), closes the annual general debate. UN Photo/Cia Pak

UN General Assembly President hails annual debate as ‘historic and seminal’

Une station de bus au Nigéria visée par un attentat à la bombe par Boko Haram. Photo Ikechukwu Ibe/IRIN

Boko Haram violence an 'affront to humanity,' Ban declares, reaffirms UN support to Nigerian Government

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Livraison par hélicoptère de kits de subsistance de la FAO dans une zone difficile d’accès au Soudan du Sud. Photo : FAO

South Sudan: UN agency air operation delivers agriculture aid to hard-to-access areas

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Des ex-combattants FDLR se rendent volontairement à la MONUSCO. Photo : la MONUSCO

UN chief takes note of judgement by German court against Rwandan rebel leaders

Le Ministre des affaires étrangères de la Guinée, François Lounceny Fall, lors de la journée de clôture du débat général de la 70ème Assemblée générale des Nations Unies. Photo : ONU/Cia Pak

With transparent elections imminent, ‘dynamic democracy’ taking root in Guinea, Minster tells UN

Le Ministre des affaires étrangères du Soudan, Ibrahim Ahmed Ghandour, devant l’Assemblée générale. Photo ONU/Cia Pak

Despite sanctions, Sudan remains determined to work towards new Global Goals, Minister tells UN

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