The Central African Republic’s three million children are the world’s most deprived, with widespread malnutrition, inadequate healthcare access and instability putting the country at high risk of a humanitarian crisis, UNICEF said on Tuesday. Half of the country’s children do not have access to health services, and almost 40% suffer …
Read More »Unicef warns of millions of children suffering from hunger in Sudan
The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) has issued an alert saying millions of children are going hungry in Sudan. Unicef boss, Catherine Russell says Sudan is one of the worst places in the world for children. She said the country has now the largest displacement of children anywhere, with millions …
Read More »More than 180 million children live in “severe food poverty” – UN
More than one in four children under the age of 5 in the world live in “severe food poverty”, or more than 180 million children who risk serious after-effects due to lack of a nutritious and diversified diet, Unicef warns. A “shocking” number of children “survive on a very poor …
Read More »Unicef warns of malnutrition among pregnant women and young mothers
The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from acute malnutrition has increased by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries at the “epicenter” of the world food crisis, UNICEF alerted in a report this Monday, underlining the deleterious consequences on their children. The report, based on analysis of data …
Read More »“More than 7 million children affected by earthquakes in Turkey and Syria”- UN
More than seven million children are affected by the devastating earthquakes that hit Turkey and Syria, Unicef said on Tuesday, fearing that several thousand of them may have lost their lives. “In Turkey, the total number of children living in the ten provinces affected by the two earthquakes amounted to …
Read More »Malawi: start of vaccination campaign against polio outbreak
Nearly 2.9 million children in Malawi will be vaccinated against polio, after a three-year-old girl fell ill in the capital, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF in Malawi announced on Thursday. Malawi declared a polio outbreak two weeks ago after tests confirmed the infection and showed the strain was linked …
Read More »UN condemns deadly cattle raids in South Sudan
The UN has condemned the killing of civilians in cattle raids at Jonglei state in eastern South Sudan and called for an investigation into the matter. The UN’s peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says armed youth from Murle community carried out attacks and cattle raids in Dungrut and Machined …
Read More »Nigeria: one million children to miss school due to mass abductions
United Nations of International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has indicated that nearly one million of Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity. Schools have become targets for mass abductions for ransom in northern Nigeria by armed …
Read More »UNICEF calls on all governments to reopen schools
UNICEF on Tuesday unveiled a “pandemic classroom” at the United Nations headquarters in New York. It is a way for the organization to draw attention to the need for governments to prioritize the reopening of schools. Around 214 million children worldwide, or 1 in 7, have missed more than three-quarters …
Read More »Unicef refuses a “white academic year” in DR Congo
Schools are still closed in the Democratic Republic of Congo since December 18, 2020. Accoding to the governemnt, this decision is taken to curb the spread of the second wave of the covid-19 pandemic. The UN agency asks the Congolese government to prioritize the reopening of schools while taking all …
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