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2.4 million children in Yemen could go malnourished amid pandemic: UNICEF
Jun 26, 2020 11:29The United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, has warned that the shortage of humanitarian assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic threatens to push more children in Yemen to the brink of starvation.
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One out of three young children undernourished or overweight: UNICEF
Oct 15, 2019 09:36A third of the world's nearly 700 million children under five years old are undernourished or overweight and face lifelong health problems as a consequence, according to a grim UN assessment of childhood nutrition released Tuesday.
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2018 deadliest year for children in Syria: UNICEF
Mar 12, 2019 09:01The United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) says more than 1,100 Syrian children were killed in 2018, making it the deadliest year since 2011, when foreign-sponsored terrorism began in the West Asian country.
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Saudi war damages education sector in Yemen: UNICEF
Mar 11, 2019 04:27The United Nations children's agency estimates that out of seven million school-aged children in Yemen over two million are not being educated amid a Saudi-led coalition’s war against the impoverished Arab state.
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UNICEF condemns latest Saudi-led airstrike on Yemeni children
Aug 25, 2018 02:51The UN International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has denounced a recent Saudi deadly airstrike in Yemen’s Hudaydah province that killed over two dozen children.
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UNICEF warns of 'lost generation' of Rohingya children
Aug 23, 2018 09:16The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim children lack proper education both in Myanmar and border camps in Bangladesh, warning that the Myanmarese kids could become “a lost generation.”
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About 83 killed in 'war on children' across Mideast in past month, says UNICEF
Feb 05, 2018 15:44The UN children's agency (UNICEF) says at least 83 children were killed in Middle East war zones in January.
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Youngsters in countries with conflict 3 times more illiterate: UNICEF
Feb 01, 2018 10:07Nearly 30 percent of young people between the ages of 15 and 24 in countries affected by conflict and disaster are illiterate, triple the global rate, the UN children's agency said Wednesday.
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Children in war-hit regions come under attack at ‘shocking’ scale in 2017: UNICEF
Dec 28, 2017 10:19The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has described 2017 as a devastating year for children trapped in conflict zones across the globe, saying the scale of attacks on children in war-ravaged regions reached “shocking” levels in the year.
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UNICEF: More than 11 million children in Yemen in acute need of aid
Nov 26, 2017 14:04The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) says more than 11 million Yemeni children in Yemen are in acute need of aid, stressing that it is estimated that every 10 minutes a child dies of a preventable disease there as Saudi Arabia pushes ahead with its devastating aerial bombardment campaign against the conflict-plagued Arab country