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Yemen’s children threatened by aid funding shortfall: UN
The UN warned Friday it could be forced to slash support for children in Yemen without a funding boost, a war-torn country where it said dozens ... Middle East -
Children needing aid in central Sahel double to 10 mln: UNICEF
Ten million children in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in “extreme jeopardy” and desperately need humanitarian assistance due to worsening violence, ... World News -
Most of Lebanon’s children have not been in school for months
On a recent school day, the Rene Mouawad High School in Beirut was empty, its classrooms dark, just like all of Lebanon’s public schools have been for ... Middle East -
Undernutrition in mothers rising sharply, UNICEF says
The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers suffering from undernutrition has increased by 25 percent since 2020 in 12 countries at the epicenter ... World News -
Over 7 mln children affected by devastating earthquake in Turkey, Syria: UN
More than seven million children have been affected by the massive earthquake and a major aftershock that devastated Turkey and Syria last week, the ... Middle East -
Haiti’s cholera vaccination campaign complicated by gang control
Haiti on Sunday is launching a campaign to vaccinate more than 10 percent of its population against cholera, but gang control of large swaths of ... World News -
UNICEF launches world’s first $30 mln child-focused climate risk financing initiative
The United Nations’ Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday launched a new child-focused initiative designed to increase countries’ disaster ... World News -
Young people rethinking parenthood in future due to climate change: UNICEF
A global poll by the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (UNICEF) revealed that climate change has made young people across the world reconsider their ... Middle East -
Somalia famine risk worst in half a century: UNICEF
Somalia faces famine on a scale last seen half a century ago, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Tuesday as it set a new target of more ... World News -
Russia-Ukraine war forces four million children into poverty: UN
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the resulting economic fallout have thrown four million children into poverty across eastern Europe and Central Asia, ... World News -
Lebanon migrant shipwreck death toll increases to 100
Syrian authorities have recovered 100 bodies from a Lebanese migrant boat that sank off Syria last week, state media reported about one of the ... Middle East -
Water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan could get ‘out of control’ as deaths rise
At least nine more people have died from water-borne diseases in flood-hit areas of Pakistan, officials said on Tuesday, warning they risked losing ... World News -
Syria’s Kurds appeal for UN help after three die of cholera
Three people have died of cholera in northern and eastern Syria, the region’s Kurdish administration said Saturday, appealing for international help ... Middle East -
More than 700 children have died in Somalia nutrition centers this year till July: UN
Hundreds of children have already died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after the global ... World News -
UN denounces airstrike in Ethiopia that ‘hit kindergarten’
The UN children’s agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that “hit a kindergarten” in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, killing at least four ... World News -
Lebanon child poverty: 84 pct of households unable to cover necessities, UNICEF says
Soaring prices and widespread unemployment brought on by the pandemic and the severe economic crisis in Lebanon have plunged thousands of families ... Middle East -
UN agencies launch new global alliance to end AIDS in children by 2030
Concerned by the stalling of progress for children grappling with HIV, a new global alliance has been launched to end AIDS in children by 2030, the ... World News -
Lebanon’s children at health risk as water supply systems teeter on brink: Report
Millions of people, particularly children, in crisis-stricken Lebanon are facing severe health risks as the country’s water supply systems remain on ... Middle East -
UN sounds ‘red alert’ on global immunization backslide
Increased misinformation and the disruption of global supply chains due to COVID-19 are behind the biggest sustained drop in childhood vaccinations in ... World News -
UN warns Sri Lanka could face ‘full-blown humanitarian emergency’
The United Nations warned Friday that cash-strapped Sri Lanka’s unprecedented economic crisis could develop into a dire humanitarian crisis, with ... World News -
Lebanon crisis exposes children to deadly viruses: UN
Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained ... Middle East -
Mines killed, injured more than 500 children in Iraq: UN
At least 519 children have been killed or injured by landmines and unexploded ordnance in Iraq in the past five years, UN agencies have warned.“More ... Middle East -
47 children killed, maimed in Yemen in two months: UNICEF
Forty-seven children were “killed or maimed” in Yemen’s civil war in January and February following a surge in violence, the United Nations children’s ... Gulf -
UNICEF to pay stipend to Afghan primary, secondary teachers
The United Nations children’s agency would pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organization said, with salaries unpaid ... World News -
Yemeni separated conjoined twins return home from Jordan: UNICEF
Conjoined twin boys from war-torn Yemen who were successfully separated in surgery in Jordan returned to the capital Sanaa this month, the UN ... Gulf -
Donors back $280 mln transfer from trust fund to WFP for Afghan food, health needs
Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP) and UNICEF to support nutrition and health ... World News -
Generation of children ‘at stake’ in Lebanon crisis: UNICEF
The UN children’s agency Tuesday called on Lebanon to take urgent action to protect children after it documented a spike in child labor rates and food ... Features -
West Africa has highest numbers of child soldiers: UNICEF
Trapped in conflicts, the children of West and Central Africa are the most recruited by armed groups in the world and also have the highest number of ... World News -
UN official says Taliban to announce framework for girls’ education ‘soon’
The Taliban will announce a framework that allows girls to attend school in Afghanistan “soon,” a senior United Nations official said, after four ... World News -
God spare us the woes of ‘humanitarian considerations’
Whosoever, like me, is an avid follower of Western TV channels dedicated to geographical and historical investigations, often has their pleasure ... In Translation