US postpones trilateral meeting on Syria with Russia and the UN, but a future meeting remains on the table
Good progress is being made in tackling neglected tropical diseases, which affect one in six people globally, including more than one-half billion children
About 1 billion people received treatment for neglected tropical diseases in 2015, bringing ancient scourges closer to elimination
Burundi militia calling for opponents to be impregnated so they can give birth to Imbonerakure, the government’s youth wing
More than 21,000 cases of cholera, including 533 deaths, reported in Somalia this year
In countries fighting Boko Haram in the Lake Chad region, 27 children have been used in suicide attacks by the Islamist group in the first three months of the year, UNICEF says
IOM says migrants treated as commodities to be bought, sold and discarded when they outlive their value
UN aid agencies warn they lack funding to avert a humanitarian catastrophe
Nationwide immunization campaign, which began on February 20, has taken longer than usual to complete because of security challenges
Children in eastern Ukraine live in a state of constant fear and uncertainty because of sporadic shelling, unpredictable fighting and violent deaths of loved ones
Depression affects some 300 million people worldwide making it the leading cause of ill-health and disability: WHO
Jan Egeland says humanitarian situation in Syria is deplorable, with nearly 5 million civilians in hard-to-reach, besieged areas deprived of food, medicine, other basics
$4.6 billion UN appeal for Syria is only 9 percent funded, putting security and stability of region at risk
Syria's warring parties hold substantive, in-depth talks on political settlement to end six-year civil war, Staffan de Mistura says
Syrian opposition still sees no role for President Bashar al-Assad in future government
Four polio cases reported in 2016 in Nigeria marked the first detection in Africa in two years; if no cases emerge within three years, affected countries will be declared polio-free
Efforts to wipe out tuberculosis will not succeed unless stigma, discrimination and marginalization of TB patients is brought to an end
Life-saving aid must be urgently scaled up to help 20 million people facing famine in Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and northeast Nigeria
Currently, more than one in every 18 Afghan children die before their first birthday
Cameroon has forcibly deported more than 2,600 Nigerian refugees this year in violation of international refugee law, UNHCR says
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