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• ‘Worst devastation I have seen,’ says UN refugee envoy Angelina Jolie, as she visits West Mosul June 18, 2018
  After visiting the shattered streets of West Mosul over the weekend, the long-standing United Nations Refugee Agency envoy, Angelina Jolie, said that she had never seen such devastation, in her 17-years of working in the field.
• Assault on key Yemeni port would endanger 300,000 children and ‘choke off’ aid for millions more: UNICEF chief June 12, 2018
  Any attack on the key Yemeni port of Hodeida would deepen one of the world’s worst malnutrition crises and put the lives of an estimated 300,000 children at risk, said the head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday.
• ‘Highly explosive’ escalation of conflict and displacement across Syria’s Idlib, says top UN official June 11, 2018
  The situation inside Syria’s Idlib threatens to become “highly explosive” amid an uptick in conflict between armed groups and a spike in the number of people displaced inside the war-torn country, a top UN aid official said on Monday.
• UN humanitarian coordinator condemns Central African Republic hospital attack as 'inhuman and unworthy' June 9, 2018
  Weapon-toting militiamen forced their way into a hospital in the conflict-ridden Central African Republic (CAR) on Saturday; an act that was condemned by the United Nations humanitarian coordinator on the ground, as  “an outrageous violation of international humanitarian law.”
• From drought to floods in Somalia; displacement and hunger worsen, says UN June 8, 2018
  After four consecutive poor rainy seasons that brought Somalia to the brink of famine, the country is now seeing near-record rainfall, and with it, flooding that has already displaced hundreds of thousands of people, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
• 250,000 people ‘may lose everything - even their lives’ in assault on key Yemeni port city: UN humanitarian coordinator June 8, 2018
  Any attack on the key port city of Hodeidah in Yemen “will impact hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians” and would entail around 250,000 civilians losing everything - “even their lives” - the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the war-torn country said on Friday.