Executive Director Peter Power has just returned from a fact-finding mission to famine-risk zones in Somalia. I first met eight-month-old Hassan at the beginning of my week-long trip to northern Somalia, on my first visit to a UNICEF Stabilisation Centre in Hargeisa, Somaliland. The clinic has been set up to deal with Severely Acutely Malnourished children with … Continued

Millions of children under the age of five received successfully measles vaccination in Syria this month. UNICEF helped by providing 3 million doses of measles vaccine, and by letting parents know about the campaign through posters and flyers. Before the current crisis, Syria’s immunisation coverage was one of the best in the region at 80 … Continued

  Today in Yemen, 2.2 million children are malnourished, including 462,000 who are severely acutely malnourished. Yemen’s food crisis is being made even more difficult by the outbreak of Cholera in recent weeks. Some 332 people have died from the disease, with 32,000 suspected cases of cholera reported. Up to a third of cases are estimated … Continued

  Tajudeen Oyewale, Deputy Representative at UNICEF DRC, visited an Ebola treatment centre last week to assess the response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Going to the epicenter of an Ebola outbreak is not easy – you need to mentally prepare. In fact, when I informed my colleagues in … Continued

Record numbers of children are migrating alone right now, according to a new report released by UNICEF today. In fact, the number has increased nearly five-fold since 2010, with at least 300,000 unaccompanied and separated children counted in some 80 countries in the combined years of 2015 and 2016. According to our research: 200,000 unaccompanied … Continued

UNICEF Child Protection specialist describes the difficult process of reintegrating children abducted by Boko Haram back into their communities.

On 2 May 2017 UNICEF delivered critical supplies to Syrian children as part of the first humanitarian convoy to reach the besieged city of Duma in over six months.

As the guns in eastern Mosul in Iraq finally start to quieten, children are starting to rebuild their lives

Five years of unrest and conflict have left more than 10 million children in Yemen in urgent need of help. With the countries health service near collapse, the situation has become terrible for children. A child dies every 10 minutes in Yemen from preventable causes like diarrhoea, breathing infections and malnutrition. The violence has ruined … Continued

In Syria, water has been used as a weapon of war by all parties to the conflict

  The Syrian conflict is now in its seventh year and it is children who are paying the heaviest price. No child in Syria is spared the horror of war. They can’t escape the violence, not in schools, hospitals, playgrounds, parks or even their own homes. For Syrian children, each year of conflict has been … Continued

  Entire villages have lost their crops and livestock, forcing families to leave their homes in search of food and water. Asha, a young widow, and her four children were forced to leave their home when all their livestock died.  With the help of their neighbours they travelled to a temporary shelter in search of food and … Continued