Unicef Stories
The change mirrors a recent move by the United States (US), which announced that funding for HIV products will now go directly to governments.
Heavy rains are flooding Gaza displacement camps, killing a baby and forcing thousands to move. Officials warn of an imminent humanitarian disaster am...
Sudan is in the midst of the world’s most severe humanitarian crisis, since the conflict erupted 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilita...
Drone strikes on the army-held town of Kalogi in Sudan’s South Kordofan killed 79 people, including 43 children, hitting a kindergarten and hospital a...
Chief Officer Mana said Turkana has made "significant gains" in reducing Global Acute Malnutrition (GAM) rates despite persistent food insecurity and...
Meanwhile, the situation in and around El Fasher – which UN relief chief Tom Fletcher called a “potential crime scene” following its capture by militi...
Globally, one in three women experiences physical and/or sexual violence in her lifetime, mostly by an intimate partner — a stark reminder of the scal...
According to UNICEF, at least 67 children have been killed in “conflict-related incidents” since the Hamas-Israel pause in hostilities was announced o...
Children under five face the highest risk, with over 22 per cent living in extreme monetary poverty in 2024, compared with 15 per cent of teenagers. V...
Children’s Fund, UNICEF, highlighted the case of six-year-old twins Yahya and Nabeela, who were critically injured by an unexploded remnant of war in...
The study noted that seven in ten parents knew of the laws designed to protect children, yet two-thirds of children said they did not know where to se...
The film tells the story of a young girl who, after becoming pregnant in school, defies the odds to return and excel in her education.
Nafisa from Ghana, 16, spoke up for girls “whose dreams are shaken by crisis”, such as a friend in a nearby village who had to leave school after conf...
Reconstruction will cost over $7 billion, according to WHO estimates, covering humanitarian response, early recovery and long-term rebuilding.
Armed gangs now control over 85 per cent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as key roads, cutting families off from food, healthcare, p...
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said that, on average, one child has been killed or injured every 17 minutes, describing the figure as "unacceptable...
WHO stressed the urgent need for fuel, medical supplies, prosthetics, and assistive devices, alongside protection for health workers. Medical evacuati...
The announcement followed days of protests in major cities across the country, including the capital Antananarivo, over frequent power outages and wat...
In 2024, the findings show that over 311 million children in the region lived in households surviving on less than $3 (Sh388) a day, the revised globa...
In July, Save the Children deployed 25 outreach sites across Turkana to provide health and nutrition services for children and adults in the hardest-h...
The international community is currently dealing with multiple humanitarian crises across the world, including conflict-driven crises in the Democrati...
According to Dr Micah Kibera, a Nairobi-based clinical nutritionist, one of the most overlooked causes is the steady decline of physical activity in c...
UNICEF is urging African governments to protect children’s diets from unhealthy ingredients
Only 44 out of 92 UNICEF-supported outpatient nutrition treatment centres are still functional, which means thousands of malnourished children lack ac...
The heaviest impact is expected in regions that are already vulnerable. West and Central Africa could see 1.9 million children lose access to school,...
On the ground, several UN agencies reported devastation across four eastern provinces of Afghanistan including Nangarhar and Kunar, where staff and hu...
The certified villages — Akoros, Natomean, Emunyen A, Emunyen B, Kotome, RukRuk, and Alidat — form part of the Ilemkajokon Community Unit. Together, t...
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two years, has cut off all sup...
In Amhara, over 4.4 million children did not attend school in the 2024/25 academic year. Although the bureau aimed to register seven million students...
But wherever it happens, this sort of punishment has wide-ranging effects, including increased risk of anxiety and depression in addition to reduced c...
