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One million Afghan children face severe malnutrition, death: UNICEF
Oct 10, 2021 15:03The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for immediate humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, warning that at least one million children could face severe malnutrition and even death in the war-ravaged country this year.
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Mozambique rescues kidnapped children: UNICEF
Oct 06, 2021 08:55The United Nations says Mozambique has rescued a number of children who had been abducted by the al-Shabab terrorist group to be forcefully recruited as child soldiers.
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1 million Nigerian children to miss school due to mass kidnappings: UNICEF
Sep 16, 2021 01:29At least one million Nigerian children could miss school this year as the new term begins amid a rise in mass school kidnappings and insecurity, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Wednesday.
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Dozens of Palestinians injured in Israeli regime crackdown on protests
Aug 27, 2021 12:30Tens of Palestinians were wounded as Israeli regime troops attacked several protests against the illegal Zionist settlements across the occupied West Bank on Friday.
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UNICEF warns severe water shortage to affect millions in Lebanon
Aug 22, 2021 03:58The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that millions of people in Lebanon could face a critical shortage of water or be cut off completely in the coming days in the wake of a severe fuel crisis in the cash-strapped Arab nation.
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100,000+ children in Ethiopia’s Tigray at risk of death from malnutrition: UNICEF
Jul 30, 2021 11:40The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has voiced concern about the dire humanitarian situation in Ethiopia’s conflict-ridden region of Tigray, saying more than 100,000 children could suffer from life-threatening severe acute malnutrition in the next 12 months, a 10-fold jump in average annual levels.
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UNICEF to feed hungry British children for first time
Dec 16, 2020 15:40The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is launching a domestic emergency to feed those British children most badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Ethiopia conflict puts 2.3 million children in need: UNICEF
Nov 20, 2020 07:47The outbreak of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has left some 2.3 million children in urgent need of assistance and thousands more at risk in refugee camps, the UN children's agency said Friday.
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UNICEF raises eyebrows with praise for Saudi ‘humanitarian’ role in Yemen
Oct 07, 2020 08:56The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has in a controversial move praised what it called Saudi Arabia’s “humanitarian” role in Yemen, closing its eyes to years of atrocities committed by Riyadh and its allies against the civilian population there, leaving a large number of children dead, maimed and malnourished.
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Iran, UNICEF to launch scheme to contain coronavirus
Jul 05, 2020 02:16Iran’s Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare is going to launch a joint cooperation program with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in preventing and treating the novel coronavirus disease.