22 Dec 2016
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UN vehicles travel along a road lined with remnants of destroyed buildings, Homs, Syria.
@ UNICEF/UNI178367/Tiku
The UN General Assembly has voted to establish an independent panel to assist in the investigation and prosecution of those responsible for war crimes or crimes against humanity in Syria.
22 Dec 2016
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Displaced children continue to smile despite toughest times at IDPs site in the fractured city of Bambari showing glimmers of hope for a peaceful future in the midst of conflict.
@ OCHA/Gemma Cortes
The World Food Programme requires US$21.5 million to maintain support to 150,000 vulnerable people displaced by violence in CAR. Without funding, WFP will be forced to halt its assistance in February 2017.
22 Dec 2016
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@ OCHA/Z.Nurmukhambetova
Access to essential services for the most vulnerable remains a serious issue, and humanitarian actors face challenges providing humanitarian assistance for 3.8 million people in need.
22 Dec 2016
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@ MINUSMA/Marco Dormino
New project will rebuild trust between communities and improve their relationship with security forces. In doing so Int'l Alert will support both groups in tackling violence, including extremism.
22 Dec 2016
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@ UN/Elfi Klabunde
Lack of clean drinking water and poor sanitation in the camps leads to diarrhoea and other illnesses, which means children cannot retain nutrients and suffer from malnutrition as a result.
22 Dec 2016
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@ UNHCR
The younger ‘returnees’ include those who have never lived in Afghanistan and some whose parents weren't even born there. Many now find themselves in a desperate situation, with neither jobs nor proper housing.
22 Dec 2016
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Participants in FAO’s cash for work project clean the main Al Jazeera irrigation canal as part of a project to resupply water for agricultural production for the first time since the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took the area in 2014.
@ FAO/Cengiz Yar
The Al Jazeera irrigation scheme used to be an essential source of water for agriculture, livestock and domestic use. Some 100 smaller canals in the system were damaged, bridges were also blown up.
22 Dec 2016
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UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq
@ OCHA / Philippe Kropf
The UN condemns the killing of civilians and aid workers in two separate incidents in eastern Mosul. More than 356,000 people affected by the military campaign have received aid.
21 Dec 2016
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@ OCHA/ Charlotte Cans
As of end-November, 111,504 migrants and refugees from the Horn of Africa are estimated to have arrived this year in Yemen, a record since monthly monitoring started in 2006.
21 Dec 2016
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@ WFP/Amadou Baraze
Much of northern, eastern, and central Borno State will remain in Emergency (IPC Phase 4) through at least May 2017. The limited availability of harvest stocks as well as restricted purchasing power will continue to limit food access.
21 Dec 2016
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@ WFP/Ricardo Franco
Land preparation and planting are underway but seed availability remains a concern as households were unable to adequately save grain due to two years of below-average production.
21 Dec 2016
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@ IOM
With the Progressive Resolution of Displacement Situations (PRDS) Framework, IOM embraces more inclusive approaches that recognize the needs and rights of all those affected by crises.
21 Dec 2016
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@ OCHA/Themba Linden
Fleeing residents told HRW that ISIS justified attacks on civilians because many had refused the group’s orders to join its retreat, as they feared they would be used as human shields.
20 Dec 2016
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@ UN Photo/Abel Kavanagh
Since 16 December, the UN has documented 113 arrests, including opposition leaders and sympathizers, civil society activists and human rights defenders, media professionals and others.
20 Dec 2016
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@ UNICEF/UN011240/Sokhin
Thousands of Fijians seek shelter during new round of storms as the worst-hit areas in western Fiji still recover from February's devastating Cyclone Winston.
20 Dec 2016
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Farmers in the Horn of Africa need urgent support to recover from consecutive lost harvests and to keep their breeding livestock healthy and productive at a time that pastures are the driest in years.
@ FAO/Tamiru Legesse
The growing numbers of refugees are expected to place even more burden on already strained food and nutrition security as 12 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia are food-insecure.
20 Dec 2016
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@ IOM
“The need for food is increasing among the IDPs we surveyed. It is the biggest unmet need of 66 percent of the IDPs... Non-food items, like blankets, continue to be second thing most in demand,” said IOM.
20 Dec 2016
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Syrian Arab Republic
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Up to one million children at risk across Middle East as winter sets in
@ UNICEF/UN043359/Al-Issa
UNICEF is facing a $38 million funding gap as it races to provide life-saving assistance, including warm clothing, blankets and winter supplies, to children and families as the cold settles in.
20 Dec 2016
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@ UNICEF/UN043951/Holt
Humanitarian space in South Sudan continues to shrink, with the UN reporting more than 90 access constraint incidents in November, 70% of which involved violence against aid workers or assets.
20 Dec 2016
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@ OCHA/Naomi Frerotte
The conflict, which is in danger of re-opening the ethnic-based fault lines of the past, has forced 327,400 Burundians to flee into neighbouring countries.
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