UN report raises alarm on need to invest in essential nutrition programmes for adolescent girls and women.

UN report raises alarm on need to invest in essential nutrition programmes for adolescent girls and women.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced since the conflict in Darfur began 20 years ago.
Catholic church head and other Christian leaders called for recommitment to the 2018 peace deal during the Africa trip.
Francis, who is on the first-ever papal visit to South Sudan, meets children displaced by conflict.
Pope Francis will arrive in Juba hoping to revive a peace process aimed at ending a decade-long conflict.
Pope Francis’ trip to the DRC is the first papal visit since John Paul II travelled there in 1985.
The head of the Catholic Church aims to help restore peace in two countries that have seen years of violence.
There are 2.2 million internally displaced people in South Sudan as a civil war that began in 2013 continues to simmer.
The final years of the eradication effort, led by the US’s Carter Center, will be the ‘most difficult’, expert says.
Thousands of demonstrator in Khartoum demand an end to military rule and justice for those killed since last year’s coup
Women and children make up the majority of those displaced as a result of the ‘ruthless conflict’ in the region.
The troops are off to eastern DRC to join a new regional force in trying to calm the latest round of fighting there.
The Vatican had previously announced that scheduled trips to both countries in July were postponed.
Abuses also include beheadings and people being burned alive in the Greater Upper Nile region, the commission says