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• Emergency food distributions launched to assist thousands displaced in DR Congo &#8211 UN agency August 16, 2017
  Food assistance will be provided to food insecure people displaced by conflict in the Kasai region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), says the United Nations food agency.
• More survivors, remains of deceased African migrants found on Yemen beach, says UN agency August 15, 2017
  Over the past three days, the UN migration agency has found more survivors and victims&#39 remains from last week&#39s tragedy &#8211 when hundreds of migrants were forced from two boats into the sea off the coast of Yemen.
• UN humanitarian team activated in Nepal in wake of severe floods and landslides August 15, 2017
  The Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) has been activated in Nepal to support response efforts in the aftermath of severe floods that have hit the nation, the office of the United Nations Resident Coordinator in the country has said.
• UN migration agency assists population in wake of devastating floods in Sierra Leone August 15, 2017
  After learning Monday that devastating floods and mudslides left hundreds dead in Sierra Leone, the United Nations migration agency released $150,000 in emergency, first-response aid relief for the West African country.
• First of 33,000 Congolese refugees relocated to new settlement in Angola &#8211 UN agency August 15, 2017
  More than 1,500 Congolese refugees who have fled violence and ethnic tensions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been relocated from reception centres in northern Angola to a newly established settlement, the United Nations refugee agency today said.
• Guterres says UN stands in solidarity with disaster-hit Sierra Leone August 14, 2017
  Amid a mudslide and flooding in Sierra Leone, Secretary-General António Guterres today reiterated that the United Nations stands in solidarity with the Government and people in the ongoing rescue efforts.