Insights from the BBC, The New Arab, Reuters, and ReliefWeb The News Nearly four million children in Sudan face acute malnutrition as a result of the ongoing conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, the head of the United Nations children’s agency warned. Catherine Russell told the BBC that as many as […]
A new report released Thursday by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) found that 181 million children worldwide under the age of five — or one in four — live in severe food poverty. Food poverty, the report defines, is the state of consuming either nothing or up to two out of eight food groups […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the north and west, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday. Unusually heavy seasonal rains have been wreaking havoc on multiple parts of the country, killing hundreds of people and destroying property and crops. The U.N. food agency […]
Tens of thousands of children in Afghanistan remain affected by ongoing flash floods, especially in the north and west, the UN children’s agency said. Unusually heavy seasonal rains have been wreaking havoc on multiple parts of the country, killing hundreds of people and destroying property and crops. The UN food agency has warned that many […]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A new study by the United Nations children’s agency says developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths by 2030. UNICEF said improved energy resilience would also contribute $296 million to the country’s fragile economy over the next 20 years by reducing maternal, adult and […]
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) warned on Monday that a military besiegement and ground incursion in Rafah would pose “catastrophic risks” to the 600,000 children taking shelter there. “Rafah is now a city of children, who have nowhere safe to go in Gaza. If large scale military operations start, not only will […]
Fighting between the Shiite militia Hezbollah and Israel is plunging tens of thousands of children and young people and their families into misery in southern Lebanon, aid workers say. Almost daily airstrikes from Israel are destroying the livelihoods of the people, many of whom were already living in precarious conditions, said the UN’s aid organization […]
Gaza’s children and young people are becoming increasingly desperate about food supplies, according to the UN’s children’s relief organization UNICEF. Children are dreaming of a slice of cucumber or begging for a tomato, James Elder, UNICEF’s spokesman said in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Young people who spoke to the organization said they hoped to […]
More than 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued by the United Nations children’s agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, Unicef estimated in the […]
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, children in the frontline areas have been forced to spend 3,000 to 5,000 hours or four to seven months in shelters. Source: United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF Quote: “The war in Ukraine has shattered childhoods and wreaked havoc on children’s mental health and ability to learn. […]
Around 17,000 Palestinian children and young people are living in the Gaza Strip without their parents or siblings, the UN children’s aid organization UNICEF said on Friday. Israel has been bombarding the coastal strip in a bid to root out the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, which controls Gaza and launched terrorist attacks on Israel on […]
Caesarean section operations are being performed without anaesthetic in the Gaza Strip at times due to the lack of medicines available, according to a UNICEF spokeswoman. The UN children’s charity said there was not only a lack of anaesthetic drugs in hospitals, but also that mothers are having to leave hospital three hours after having […]