Around 30 young boys are hovering expectantly outside a community centre. They peer over each other’s shoulders to try to get a better look at the cardboard boxes filled with pictures. Report by Rebecca Fordham. Benghazi, 31 May 2011 “We are playing the ‘strange object game’,” says Diran Abdel Hafth, 15. “The idea is to … Continued

Violence has been raising in Tunisian camp. Their tents have been torched, their belongings looted and a temporary school for their children destroyed. Staying out in the open, amidst the charred remains of all they had left in the world, refugees in Tunisia’s Shousha camp are living in the shadow of fear and uncertainty. Report … Continued

At the Lake Muhazi Centre, an hour’s drive from the Rwandan capital, 30 adolescent boys have come together for a three-month course that offers counselling, education, recreational activities and vocational training. These are not your average young men – they used to be child soldiers in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo. Report by … Continued

UNICEF is improving transparency around vaccine supply by making vaccine prices available on its website. As the largest buyer of children’s vaccines, this move is in line with UNICEF’s commitment to ensure that vaccine supply is sustainable and affordable. UNICEF’s partners in immunisation welcome the positive development. Information on market dynamics that influence vaccine uptake … Continued

Ayman Ali, age 14, is lying on a stretcher bed in the medical tent of a boat arriving into Benghazi’s port from Misrata. Both his wrists are heavily bandaged and his eyes stare out ahead of him. Report by Rebecca Fordham. BENGHAZI, Libya (May 26, 2011). His cousin, 9-year-old Mamud Ali, lies on the bed … Continued

UNICEF provides shelter and sanitation to families and children displaced by conflict in Libya. Young boys are playing football in the yard and a group of girls are skipping to ring-a-roses in the far corner while their parents look on. A fourteen-year-old boy in a wheelchair is sitting in the shade talking to a group … Continued

The bullet hole is high on the whitewashed wall of what is, in other respects, a perfectly normal conference room, the kind you might find in a UNICEF office anywhere in the world. But to the staff of UNICEF’s Malakal office, the broken plaster – and its ricochet in the frame of a map on … Continued

Climate change seems to be blighting large parts of Africa. The effects are more pronounced than in the industrialized world, and people in developing nations are less able to deal with them. VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Chris Niles reports on how climate change is altering the lives of traditional communities in Ethiopia and Kenya, and how … Continued

BENGHAZI, Libya, 20 May 2011 – Etaj, 11, and Hanni, 12, (not their real names), are taking their drawing very seriously amid the surrounding clatter of chairs and chatter of other children. Report by Rebecca Fordham For them, creating art at this child-friendly space is an opportunity to creatively express what they are feeling and … Continued

 The political crisis in Côte d’Ivoire has had a tremendous effect on the country’s adolescents and children. Since the political crisis began last November, more than 300,000 Ivorians have fled their homes. Field report by Edward Bally VIDEO: UNICEF correspondent Anja Baron reports on UNICEF-supported counselling for returning school children during the political crisis in … Continued

UNICEF reports on a mass immunization campaign against polio in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Severine Nabintu, age 35, brought her six-month old child to the launch two weeks ago of a national immunization campaign against polio in South Kivu province in DR Congo. “I’ve brought my child to vaccinate him and protect him from … Continued

At first glance, it is difficult to imagine that Fatmah, 15, a native of Niger, is already a mother of two, though early marriages and families are not uncommon among Nigeriens. Report by Natasha Scripture Holding her youngest child, 10-month-old Assi, against her small frame, she looked anxious when she recalled the constant shelling that … Continued