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Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, in addition to hundreds of thousands who have been displaced inside the country, says UN refugee agency spokesperson Olga Sarrado. SOUNDBITE
Mothers of some of Mexico's nearly 100,000 missing people gather in Mexico City to protest on Mother's Day. IMAGES
During a UN press briefing, Georgios Petropoulos, the head of the OCHA sub-office in Gaza speaking from Rafah says that more than 100,000 people have fled Rafah. SOUNDBITE
European officials arrive at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris as France hosts an international conference on Sudan, exactly a year after war broke out in the northeast African country, leading to a humanitarian and political crisis. IMAGES
Officials arrive at the Kigali Genocide Memorial as Rwanda marks 30 years since a genocide orchestrated by Hutu extremists tore their country apart. IMAGES
Nearly 30,000 supporters of the coup in Niger gather in a stadium in the capital, Niamey. The rally takes place as the deadline set by the west African bloc -- the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) -- for the military to relinquish control of the country, or face possible armed intervention, is set to lapse. IMAGES