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During a press conference in Washington on the Global Financial Stability Report, IMF Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, Tobias Adrian, told reporters “the economic recovery has remained resilient despite market volatility. But investors and policymakers should not take too much comfort from today’s relatively easy financial conditions.” IMF

As the only female fighter pilot in the El Salvador contingent in the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), Sandra Hernandez feels her work “can help bring security and some more stability and tranquilly to the Malian people.” MINUSMA

Senegalese police and gendarmes deployed in the Central African Republic under the United Nations banner received medals during a ceremony held on Wednesday in capital Bangui. MINUSCA

Since 2004, more than 5,000 people have either been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in South Sudan, the United Nations Mine Action Service in South Sudan has announced, while commemorating the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action in the capital, Juba. UNMISS

In the face of forthcoming monsoon season, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) and its partners have begun relocating to higher grounds the Rohingya families sheltering in Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh, warning that many thousands will still face landslides and flooding when the monsoons arrive. UNHCR

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) spokesperson said the Fund was proposing increased fiscal and banking integration in Europe, and part of that goal is creating a ‘rainy day fund’ for countries to draw on as a sort of insurance policy. IMF

Since armed conflict divided eastern Ukraine back in 2014, almost 1.3 million pensioners have found themselves caught in the middle, living in territory now outside of government control but dependent on state institutions for their hard-earned retirement pensions. To get their pensions, the old and frail are forced repeatedly to make a difficult, costly and dangerous journey across the “line of contact”. UNHCR

The Secretary-General of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA), led a joint mission to the Central African Republic (CAR) from 15 to 17 March 2018. MINUSCA

On Greece's Samos Island, about 1,400 refugees are braving harsh winter conditions at the island's sole reception center. One Syrian family, after months in the overcrowded facility, has secured a transfer to the mainland, where the UN Refugee Agency is helping to provide safer housing and a fresh start after the trauma of war. UNHCR

Born at the outbreak of Syria’s seven-year conflict, Mohammed lost his home and more to the war before a specialist school in Lebanon offered fresh hope. UNHCR