Africa

Un travailleur de santé mesure le bras d’un petit garçon pour évaluer son état nutritionnel à Juba, au Soudan du Sud. Photo UNICEF/Christine Nesbitt

UN agencies boost effort to avoid ‘catastrophic loss’ of young children’s lives in South Sudan

Members of the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit, a South African and majority-women ranger group. Photo: Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit

Mostly female anti-poaching unit from South Africa wins top UN environmental prize

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Peacekeeping chief Hervé Ladsous announcing at a press conference that the UN has established a weapons-free zone in the town of Bambari in the Central African Republic (CAR). Special Representative in CAR Parfait Onanga-Anyanga is at right. UN Photo/Bits

UN peacekeeping chief announces weapons-free zone in Central African Republic town

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Une jeune fille pendant la pause. Le gouvernement mongol a introduit plusieurs programmes destinés à améliorer le système educatif, l'education primaire dans les régions rurales particulièrement. Photo: Khasar Sandag/Banque Mondiale

Literacy for all 'must stand at the heart' of new sustainable development agenda – UNESCO chief

Truckers from Guinea wait to be screened for Ebola at the busy Konadu checkpoint in Lofa County, Liberia.

Liberia again declared free of Ebola transmission as number of cases remains stable in wider West Africa

FAO Director-General Jose Graziano Da Silva (right) and Walt MacNee, Vice Chairman, MasterCard Worldwide sign new partnership agreement. Photo: FAO/Alessia Pierdomenico

UN agency and MasterCard join forces to support refugees and small-scale farmers

Ugandan soldiers serving with the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), walk across a bridge near the town of Janaale, Somalia.

Somalia: UN envoy condemns attack on African Union base

Children at a protection of civilians site in Juba, South Sudan, run by the UN Mission, perform at a special cultural event in March 2015. UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Fresh peace deal ‘first step’ in resolving South Sudan crisis – Security Council

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Girls herdng goats in Somalia where in certain areas drought has contributed to severe water shortages and livestock deaths. Photo: FAO/Simon Maina

In Somalia some 855,000 people face acute food insecurity

Relatives of abducted children speak out for the disappeared in Lamwo district, northern Uganda. Photo: IRIN/Philippa Croome

Prohibition of enforced disappearance is 'absolute,' UN declares, urging action to ramp-up searches for missing

Africa International Day of Enforced Disappearances

Zambian youth at a UNDP consultation. Investment in youth and their input is crucial to long-term and sustainable development. Photo: UNDP Zambia

Youth: not simply human beings, but human becomings

People in conflict-affected areas of South Sudan collect food from WFP. Photo: WFP/Peter Testuzza

UN humanitarian agencies reach thousands of South Sudanese cut off for months