UN Photo/Tobin JonesA school girl during a class break in 2013 at the school run by the Hawa Abdi Centre in the Afgooye Corridor, Somalia, which has for decades helped tens of thousands of Somalis displaced by civil war.
The two main centres of UN activity in Africa are Nairobi, Kenya and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There are also, in Africa, many regional and country offices of UN system entities, UN political offices, and nine UN peacekeeping missions.