Politics

Photo:Civilians walk at the scene of an explosion in KM4 street in the Hodan district of Mogadishu, Somalia October 14, 2017.

Photo:Small farms in Madagascar are hard hit by erratic weather and locust invasion.

Photo:U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivers remarks on the U.S. system for asylum-seekers at the Executive Office for Immigration Review in Falls Church, Virginia, U.S. October 12, 2017

Photo:Scene from St. Petersburg, Russian Federation.

14 October 2017
A committee to strengthen cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) will discuss its work at the annual IPU forum, which began today in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Photo:Jeffrey Brez, Chief of NGO Relations, Advocacy and Special Events of DPI, 3rd from right, and Kaoru Nemoto, Director of UNIC Tokyo, 4th from right, represent the United Nations at a special event held in the margins of the Kyoto International Film and Art Festival.

Photo:Many people – women and children mainly – prepare to flee Kaga-Bandoro, Central African Republic, towards Chad. The men stay behind to take care of their livestock or businesses.

13 October 2017
Concluding her visit to Ukraine, the United Nations Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator underlined on Friday the urgent need for humanitarian funding to address the dire situation faced by millions of civilians during the coming winter months.

Photo: A Syrian father carrying his two children arrives at the international airport in Chile’s capital, Santiago.

Photo:Thousands of new Rohingya refugee arrivals cross the border near Anzuman Para village, Palong Khali, Bangladesh.

Photo:A seven-year-old girl crosses an improvised wooden bridge which she built after Hurricane Irma caused severe damaged in the Five Cays’ settlement of Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands.