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The year’s top development stories: 2017 in review

by Lucy Lamble

A health official in the Nigerian town of Dikwa measures the arm circumference of a child as part of a drive to control malnutrition. (Photo: Florian Plaucheur/AFP/Getty Images)

As Donald Trump cut funding for family planning and people from east Africa to Yemen went hungry, peace finally gained a foothold in Colombia.

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