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The number of attacks by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria and neighboring countries has risen, and half a million children have had to flee to safety in the past five months, bringing the total number of displaced children in the region to 1.4 million, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 18 September 2015 said.
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**Photo: Abdelaziz Bouteflika meets the President of Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner | Algeria, 2008 | Presidencia de la Nación Argentina | Wikimedia Commons
In Algeria, the plot cannot even compare to the best American thriller series. Plot twists, power plays and myths – all the ingredients of a great political thriller are present and all are fed by a code of silence to give a fictional sense of the power struggles at the top echelons of the state.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is eager to get countries to submit as soon as possible their action plans that will form the basis of the new universal climate change agreement to be adopted in December [30 November-11 December 2015] in Paris, a senior United Nations official dealing with the issue on 17 September 2015 said.
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Climate change has serious implications for agriculture and food security. Photo: FAO/L. Dematteis
Janos Pasztor, Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change, told a press conference at United Nations Headquarters that, to date, 62 out of 194 parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have submitted their Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC).
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