Politics

Photo:Displaced Aleppo, Syria, residents wait in line to receive food distributed by the World Food Programme.

11 August 2017
More than 600,000 displaced Syrians returned home in the first seven months of 2017, the United Nations migration agency and partners have found.

Photo:A 79-yaer old retiree crosses a checkpoint in the village of Marinka in eastern Ukraine. Her journey to collect her social benefit payments and access medical care for her disabled son involves several buses and waiting in line to cross the de facto border.

Photo:Server Karametov, 76 year old Crimean Tatar, after his arbitrary arrest in August 2017.

August 10, 2017
Just when you think the situation cannot get any worse for Crimean Tatars in Crimea, it does.

Photo:A woman walks past empty shelves at a drugstore in Caracas, February 23, 2016.

August 10, 2017

Photo:UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Geert Cappelaere, interacts with children at a UNICEF-supported Child Friendly Space in Tripoli, Libya.

Photo:A mother with her children in Monguno, Borno state, northeast Nigeria.

Photo:IOM together with the Nigerien Civil Protection rescue 23 Gambian and Senegalese migrants who had been abandoned by their drivers.

Photo:In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nurse from the Kabea Kamwanga hospital treats a malnourished and malaria-infected child with medicines donated by UNICEF (May 2017).

7 August 2017
The Government of Kenya should urge all parties to maintain the highest standards of behaviour before, during and after Tuesday's general elections to avoid a repeat of the violence that took place in 2007, three United Nations human rights experts have said.

Photo:Billboard advertising the 2016 Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit in Mbabane, Swaziland.