Photo:Families flee their homes in Mosul, Iraq, heading for an army outpost in the Samah neighbourhood where they will be taken away from the heavy fighting engulfing the city.
Politics
Photo:Chair of the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria Paulo Pinheiro.
28 December 2016
Condemning the murder of Filipino journalist Larry Que on 19 December, the head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has called on authorities to investigate his death.
Photo:Internally displaced children attending classes at a displacement camp in Maiduguri, Borno state.
Photo:A young girl looks through a hole in the wall from damage from conflict in a school in Ramadi, Anbar Governorate, Iraq.
Photo:Boys play football in the yard of the school in Les Cayes, Department du Sud, Haiti, which is being used as a living space or shelter for several hundred people who have lost their homes to Hurricane Matthew.
Photo:Delegates attend the National Leadership Forum (NLF) in Baidoa, Somalia, on 23 June 2016.
BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon , 23 December 2016
As strong winds buffeted their tent and rain turned the surrounding land in this highland valley to mud, Syrian refugee Mohammed’s wife went into labour.
24 December 2016
Expressing concern over renewed violence in the Somali city of Gaalkacyo, the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for the country, Michael Keating, has called on all parties to honor the ceasefire agreement.