In Diffa, Niger, a family uprooted from Malam Fatouri, Nigeria, by Boko Haram shelter at a site for displaced civilians on 18 August 2016. Photo: UNICEF / Sam Phelps

Over 6 Million Needy People to Get $100 Million UN Aid

January 31, 2017February 2, 2017 RMN News Aid, António Guterres, UN

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres released US$100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to sustain aid operations

Oil wells set alight by ISIL are visible from the newly retaken Iraqi town of al-Hud, outside Mosul, where IOM distributed 350 non-food item kits to recently displaced families. UN Photo: IOM / Jennifer Sparks (representational image)

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How President Trump Plans to Defeat ISIS Terrorists

January 30, 2017February 1, 2017 RMN News Donald Trump, Iraq, ISIS, Syria, Terrorists

With a strong force of over 70,000 fighters under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State is attacking different nations

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Vaccination Campaign Covers 4.7 Million Children in Nigeria

January 29, 2017January 30, 2017 RMN News Children, Nigeria, UNICEF, Vaccination

In a major vaccination campaign concluding this week, 4.7 million children are being vaccinated in response to a measles outbreak

On 01 November children sit in the back of a truck loaded with their belongings on their way back home in Anbar Governorate, Iraq

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WHO Provides Trauma Care to Conflict-Affected People in Mosul

January 28, 2017January 29, 2017 RMN News Iraq, Mosul, WHO

As the conflict in Mosul intensifies and greater numbers of civilians are caught in the crossfire, WHO and partners have

Violent extremists have carried out bombings in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on various occasions. Shown here is the aftermath of a car bomb attack on the city's Banadir Beach hotel on 25 August 2016. Photo: UN Somalia (file)

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Terrorist Bombing Attack in Somalia Kills Dozens of People

January 26, 2017January 27, 2017 RMN News Bombing, Somalia, Terrorist, United Nations

The Al-Shabab militant group carried out a coordinated gun-and-bomb attack Wednesday in Somalia, killing at least 28 people. It is

Iraqi civilians, who fled fighting in the city of Mosul, walk lit up by Iraqi special forces armoured vehicles, as they head to camps housing displaced people on November 2, 2016 in Bazwaia, Iraq. Photo: UNICEF

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Fresh Fighting in Mosul to Affect 750,000 Civilians

January 24, 2017January 25, 2017 RMN News Iraq, Mosul

One hundred days after military operations to retake Mosul started, humanitarian partners are expressing deep concern about the plight of