Photo:Sri Lankan government, WHO and IOM representatives at the closing ceremony of the second Global Consultation on Migrant Health.
Politics
In 1980, a California man named John E. Fox opened a wine store near San Francisco called Premier Cru. More than a decade later, when the business was struggling financially, Fox devised a way to make a lot of money—all at his customers’ expense.
23 February 2017
Photo:UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura (second right) takes questions from journalists during a press conference prior to the Intra-Syrian negotiations, Geneva. 22 February 2017.
Photo:Ngala, Borno state: More than one million people received WFP life-saving food or nutrition support in northeastern Nigeria in December 2016.
Photo:An 11-month-old child having his arm cirmeasured at a health centre at the Banki IDP camp in Borno state, northeast Nigeria.
Photo:An Iraqi family who fled fighting in Mosul collect aid items at Hasansham camp.
21 February 2017
The United Nations refugee agency is focusing efforts on camp construction in and around the Iraqi city of Mosul, where renewed fighting could displace up to 250,000 people.
Photo:A man from the city of Sa'ada, sits outside his tent in the Dharwan settlement outside Yemen’s capital Sana’a. He fled with his eight sons to the temporary settlement after his house was destroyed by Yemen’s devastating conflict.
Photo:In February 2016, villagers gather at the Ula Arba water point, in Ziway Dugda Woreda, Arsi zone Oromia region, Ethiopia.
Photo:A 15-year-old boy, former child soldier on his way to school in a South Sudan town.