At least 20 Sudanese children were killed in January, most of them in the Kordofan and Darfur regions in western Sudan, ...

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Thursday that Sudan has become the world’s largest internal displacement crisis, with an ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the continent ...

Cholera cases are on the rise in eastern and southern Africa, leaving 28.4 million people in need across 11 countries. UNICEF is working with partners to improve critical health, water, sanitation and ...

UNICEF has signed an agreement that secures supply of the MVA-BN mpox vaccine at the lowest market price and ensures access to the vaccine for 77 low- and lower-middle-income countries. This marks a ...

Addis Ababa/New York — Today, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and UNICEF announced an extended partnership dedicated to strengthening primary healthcare, supply ...

"The future of humanity is increasingly African." That's the prediction in a new UNICEF report, which estimates that by the end of this century, 40 percent of the world's people will be African — up ...

The number of women who married as children in Africa is set to double by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a new report from UNICEF. Even though child marriage is declining as a ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund set in motion a worldwide social media campaign Tuesday to raise awareness about children in the Sahel region in northern Africa who are in urgent need of food aid.

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