A new UNICEF report has found that the number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled to 680,000.

A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill over the past week.

Thousands of children have been subjected to rape and sexual violence in the conflict-battered eastern Congo over the course of two months, the U.N. children’s agency said Friday, warning that existing funding gaps meant that hundreds of thousands were deprived of protection.

The head of the U.N. children's agency says the war in Sudan has created the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, with over 30 million people needing aid this year – 16 million of them children.

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury and ex-Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney will coach an England squad made up of athletes and celebrities for Soccer Aid 2025 at Old Trafford.

The U.N. children’s agency says children in conflict-ravaged Sudan as young as a year old have been raped since the beginning of 2024 and that sexual violence is being used as a tactic of war.

The U.N. children’s fund is accusing armed men, likely on both sides of the conflict in eastern Congo, of raping scores of children over the past weeks as rebels expand their footprint and push government forces out.

Khaby Lame, the Senegalese-Italian influencer who ranks as world’s most popular TikTok personality, has been named as a goodwill ambassador by the U.N.'s children’s agency.

Sudan's health ministry says cholera cases in the country have increased by almost 40% across 11 of the total 18 states in less than two weeks, alarming the U.N. health officials.

Authorities in Congo say the first batch of mpox vaccine has arrived in Congo’s capital, three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global emergency.

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak.

UNICEF says children in West and Central Africa are increasingly exposed to extreme heat, creating health concerns.

The U.N. says criminal gang violence in Haiti has displaced more than 300,000 children since March.

A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence.

Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency.

UNICEF says almost 100,000 children in Afghanistan direly need support, three months after earthquakes devastated the west of the country.

A United Nations report says that storms, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021.

UNICEF says Sudan's warring factions should better protect vulnerable children in the conflict zone, where hundreds of children have been killed and millions of young people “are trapped in an unrelenting nightmare.”.

The U.

Sudanese residents say heavy explosions and gunfire have rocked parts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s rival top generals.

The United Nations children’s agency says that after last summer’s devastating floods, 10 million people in Pakistan, including children, still live in flood-affected areas without access to safe drinking water.

Children are stuck in orphanages across Haiti, unable to leave the increasingly volatile country and start new lives with adoptive parents.

Pakistani officials say almost 3 million children in flood-hit areas may miss at least one semester because of damage the disaster has inflicted on schools.

Officials say the devastating floods in Pakistan’s worst-hit province have killed 17 more people in the past 48 hours, including nine children.

Vanessa Nakate’s climate activism over the past three years has propelled her to the world stage as UNICEF's newest goodwill ambassador.

About 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against diseases like diptheria, tetanus and pertussis.

In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the U.N., as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children flow into hospital wards.

Gangs are fighting each other and seizing territory in Haiti's capital with a new intensity and brutality.

Agricultural workers in the east and Horn of Africa are preparing for their most severe drought in forty years, as authorities warn that higher temperatures and less than normal rainfall was recorded by weather agencies in March and April this year.

The U.N. children's agency says nearly two-thirds of all Ukrainian children have fled their homes in the six weeks since Russia’s invasion.

A drive to vaccinate more than 9 million children against polio has been launched this week in four countries in southern and eastern Africa after an outbreak was confirmed in Malawi.

Drought threatens millions of people in the Horn of Africa region.

A group of protesters have stormed a ministry building in Beirut as the Lebanese pound hit new lows amid a worsening economic and political stalemate.

Ukraine's president is pleading with citizens to get vaccinated as daily infections have soared to another all-time high.

The leader of the 400 Mawozo gang that Haitian police say kidnapped 17 members of a missionary group is seen in a new video saying he will kill them if he doesn’t get what he is demanding.

The United Nations children’s agency says more than 100,000 children in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region could face the most extreme and life-threatening form of malnutrition in the next year.

The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population in one week, exceeding the rates in countries with far greater resources.

A UNICEF report says severe acute childhood malnutrition is expected to more than double this year in Haiti as the country struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, a spike in violence and dwindling resources.

COVID-19 vaccines are offloaded from a plane at Lagos airport, Tuesday March 2, 2021. Nigeria received vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. With more than 150,000 Nigerians infected with the virus and over 1,800 lives lost, the path to recovery for the people of Nigeria can finally begin,” said Peter Hawkins, UNICEF Nigeria Country Representative. “This is a very significant occasion -- the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccines into Nigeria is critical in curbing the pandemic. Nigeria is among 92 countries worldwide that will receive vaccines for free through the COVAX initiative.

Manuel Fontaine, UNICEF Director of the Office of Emergency Programmes, center, visits internally-displaced people in Adigrat Town, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Accounts of atrocities by Ethiopian and allied forces against residents of the country's northern region of Tigray were detailed in reports by The Associated Press and by Amnesty International. We are also deeply concerned by the worsening humanitarian crisis,” said Blinken in a statement issued Saturday. AdThose responsible for abuses in Tigray must be held accountable, Blinken added, calling for an independent, international investigation into the reports of human rights violations. The U.S. urged the immediate withdrawal from Tigray of troops from the neighboring country of Eritrea and from Amhara, the Ethiopian region bordering Tigray.

This photograph released by UNICEF Wednesday Feb. 24, 2021, shows the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arriving at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. Ghana has become the first country in the world to receive vaccines acquired through the United Nations-backed COVAX initiative with a delivery of 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India. Ghana is among 92 countries that will receive vaccines for free through the initiative, which is led by the WHO; Gavi, a vaccine group; and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations. Neighboring Ivory Coast will be the next to receive vaccines, and also will roll them out starting next week. Even as it celebrated receiving the first doses, Ghana noted the long road ahead.

The study from the Standing Together for Nutrition Consortium draws on economic and nutrition data gathered this year as well as targeted phone surveys. “An entire generation is at stake.”The fight against malnutrition had been an unheralded global success until the coronavirus pandemic struck. The number of children suffering from wasting stood at 54 million in 2010 and had dropped to 47 million last year. The consortium includes the World Bank, World Food Program, UNICEF and USAID as well as private health foundations and universities. He added that the pandemic makes the benefits of nutrition clear, because malnutrition leaves the body vulnerable to all kinds of disease, including coronavirus.

Tigray refugee children sing and dance inside a tent run by UNICEF for children's activities, in Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)NAIROBI – An international aid group said Friday that a staff member has been killed in Ethiopia’s conflict in its Tigray region. Frustration among humanitarian groups is widespread as the Tigray region remains largely unreachable and supply-laden trucks have waited for weeks at its borders. “Deeply concerned about humanitarian situation in Tigray region,” the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Francesco Rocca, tweeted on Thursday. “Lack of consistent access to civilians, hospitals without water, electricity and medicines, people in desperate need of aid.

LONDON – The World Health Organization, UNICEF and partners said there are about 2 million stillbirths every year, mostly in the developing world, according to the first-ever global estimates published Thursday. The U.N. health agency said that last year three of every four stillbirths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa or Southern Asia. The report warned that the coronavirus pandemic could worsen the global toll, estimating that a 50% reduction in health services during the pandemic could result in an additional 200,000 stillbirths in the next year in 117 developing countries. About half of stillbirths in sub-Saharan Africa and central Asia occur during labour, versus about 6% in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand. For example, in Canada, the report found that Inuit women suffer stillbirth rates nearly three times higher than the rest of Canada.

At least a third of children couldn’t access remote learning when the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, creating “a global education emergency,” the U.N. children’s agency said. At the height of lockdowns meant to curb the pandemic, nearly 1.5 billion children were affected by school closures, UNICEF said. “For at least 463 million children whose schools closed due to COVID-19, there was no such a thing as remote learning,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said. The highest number of children affection by region were in South Asia, at least 147 million, according to the report. The youngest children are also most likely to miss out on remote learning during critical years, the report said, largely due to challenges and limitations to online learning for young children and lack of assets at home.

Katy Perry has given birth to a baby girl named Daisy Dove Bloom. The pop superstar and her partner, actor Orlando Bloom, got UNICEF to announce the news on its Instagram account. Both Perry and Bloom are goodwill ambassadors for the United Nations agency that helps children. The baby is Perry's first. Bloom and his former wife, Miranda Kerr, have a son, Flynn, who was born in 2011.

The U.N. childrens agency says that millions of Yemeni children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across the war-torn Arab country amid a huge drop in humanitarian aid funding. UNICEF on Friday, June 26, 2020 released a new report, Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)CAIRO Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a "huge" drop in humanitarian aid funding, the U.N. childrens agency warned Friday. International relief agencies are alarmed by the significant decline in humanitarian funding promised earlier by donor countries. Around 9.6 million children do not have sufficient access to safe water, sanitation, or hygiene and two-thirds of the countrys roughly 30 million people rely on food assistance.

There's a "reasonable chance" the US will lose its measles elimination status in October because of measles outbreaks in New York state, the CDC said. (CNN) - More than 4,000 people have died from a measles outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, UNICEF, the United Nations' children's agency, said on Wednesday. "The number of measles cases in DRC this year is more than triple the number recorded for all of 2018. In Congo, measles immunization coverage was only 57% in 2018, UNICEF said. WHO reported in August that there had been almost three times as many measles cases in 2019 as had been reported by the same time in 2018.

A Ukrainian boy, who was injured during fighting, is one of 500,000 children at risk in water shortage, according to UNICEF. This year alone, the fighting has either disrupted or entirely halted the water supply for 3.2 million people, the children's rights organization said in a new statement released Wednesday. In 2018, water supply in eastern Ukraine was disrupted 89 times, UNICEF said in a report published in March. One single incident damaging a water facility can disrupt water supply for an entire region, Sebastien Truffaut, Chief of UNICEF's Water and Sanitation Program in Ukraine, told CNN. Soon after, Ukrainian government forces were sent to eastern Ukraine to confront pro-Russian rebels who were seizing government buildings in towns across the region.