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The year in humanitarian news

A timeline of what happened in 2020.

Coronavirus may have dominated global headlines, but plenty of other developments upended lives and livelihoods around the world in 2020. Here's our month-by-month timeline of the events that shaped the humanitarian year.

Compiled by Titilope Ajayi, TNH newsroom administrator.

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