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News Hour: 163 stranded Malian migrants – 151 adults, seven children, five infants – return home on a charter flight from Tripoli, Libya. IOM Libya’s Christine Petré reported 37 of the migrants had been released from...

News Hour: UNICEF and Telefonica, one of the largest European telecommunication companies, will work together on UNICEF’s “Magic Box” initiative – an innovative use of data to inform and plan humanitarian responses to emergency situations. Magic...

News Hour: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is extremely concerned about the humanitarian situation facing families in western Mosul, where more than 750,000 people are living in dire conditions. While access to reliable information...

News Hour: IOM and the University of Johannesburg (UJ) held an awards ceremony last week at the UJ campus to commend students’ work on a 2016 social media campaign to combat human trafficking. As part of...

News Hour: The Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin Cousin, and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, are very concerned that critical shortages in food assistance are affecting some 2 million...

News Hour: As a devastating drought grips Somalia, UNICEF and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are warning that only a massive and immediate scale-up of humanitarian assistance can help the country avoid falling into...

News Hour: Joint assessment finds that conflict has left more than two-thirds of people in Yemen struggling to feed themselves SANA’A – The number of food insecure people in Yemen has risen by three million in...

News Hour: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday defended his choice of former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad to be the UN peace envoy to Libya after the United States blocked the appointment. The decision to...

News Hour: As part of its annual global humanitarian appeal, UNICEF is seeking $42 million to deliver life-saving aid for children in emergencies in two countries in the East Asia and Pacific region. The two East...

News Hour: This week IOM coordinated the first official UN mission to Yemen’s Lahj governorate since the outbreak of the conflict in March 2015. Lahj is located in south-western Yemen and has experienced intense fighting. During...