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A family of farmers watch as locust-control workers spray pesticides on their land in Madagascar’s Betroka region. Photo: FAO/Yasuyoshi Chiba

UN agencies warn of deteriorating food security in Southern Madagascar

A health worker measures a baby girl’s arm, at an outpatient therapeutic feeding centre at the Protection of Civilians site on the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal, capital of Upper Nile State. Photo: UNICEF/Christine Nesbit

South Sudan: UN calls for immediate access to conflict-affected areas to prevent 'catastrophe'

Burning barricades in Bujumbura, as turmoil erupted in Burundi. Photo: Desire Nimubona/IRIN

Burundi: post-election crisis forces UN and partners to seek $32 million in revised relief plan

Le Représentant spécial du Secrétaire général en RDC, Martin Kobler, avec des Casques bleus de la MONUSCO en mai 2015. Photo : MONUSCO

DR Congo: political tensions ‘running high’ ahead of 2016 elections, UN officials warn

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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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

Foreign Minister of Eritrea, Osman Mohammed Saleh, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Outdated UN system a reflection of world’s dysfunction, Eritrean Minister tells Assembly

Permanent Representative of Côte d’Ivoire to the United Nations, Claude Stanislas Bouah-Kamon, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s seventieth session. UN Photo/Cia Pak

Côte d’Ivoire tells Assembly it stands as living example of UN’s role in averting chaos

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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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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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