UNICEF supporting emergency food aid for UK children over holidays

Thousands of families in the United Kingdom impacted by COVID-19 are to receive “one-off…emergency” food assistance from UN Children’s Fund UNICEF over the upcoming holiday period and beyond, it has announced.

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1.5 million children lack treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa

21 Jan 2022

At least 1.5 million children are not receiving life-saving treatment for severe wasting in Eastern and Southern Africa, warned the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday.

Deaths of children in northeast Syria ‘could have been averted’: UNICEF

13 Aug 2020

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has expressed “deep alarm” over reports that eight children – all under the age of five – have died in Syria’s Al Hol camp, where several thousand children are languishing in dire conditions.

Violence, COVID-19, contribute to rising humanitarian needs in the Sahel

16 Oct 2020

A surge in armed violence, coupled with the economic and social fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, are contributing to worsening conditions for children in the Central Sahel, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Friday.