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The Federal Government of Somalia and the United Nations today unveiled the 2019 portfolio of the UN Secretary-General’s Peacebuilding Fund, with 14 million USD earmarked for support of new state-building projects in the country. UNSOM

In Beirut, a very special bus roams the city, bringing joy and education to children working on the streets. UNHCR

At a special cultural event in the Juba protection site held on Saturday 16 February, thousands of displaced families came together with UN personnel tasked with protecting them to celebrate the peace agreement signed last year and to make a joint commitment to work together to implement it. UNMISS

The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) launched Sunday (17 Feb) a three-year-long national strategy to enhance awareness of its key policy agendas and initiatives among the Somali people at a high-level donor’s conference in the national capital. UNSOM

A year after North and South Korea made history by marching together in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is considering a request for unified Korean teams to enter qualification for the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020. IOC

The biggest UN humanitarian convoy yet to operate inside Syria has successfully distributed aid to 40,000 desperate people in a hard-to-access desert camp at Rukban, near the country’s southern border with Jordan, the organization announced on Friday. UNTV CH

UN chief António Guterres said Palestinians have endured “more than a half-century of occupation and denial of their legitimate right to self-determination” adding that Israelis and Palestinians continued to “suffer from deadly cycles of violence.” UNIFEED

Cross-border movements of displaced communities from South Sudan’s Yei area are raising concerns about the risk of the Ebola virus being transported across the border into South Sudan. Currently living in a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, some displaced people often crisscross the porous border in search of food from the homes they fled in Yei due to unrest. UNMISS

United Nations aid agencies with their national and international humanitarian partners launched today the 2019 Joint Response Plan for the Rohingya humanitarian crisis. The appeal seeks to raise US$ 920 million to meet the massive needs of more than 900,000 refugees from Myanmar and over 330,000 vulnerable Bangladesh's host communities. UNTV CH

A surge in sexual violence in South Sudan’s Unity state targeting victims as young as eight years old has underlined the need for urgent measures from the Government to protect them and bring perpetrators to justice, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday. UNTV CH