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Access to basic sanitation still lagging for millions in Eastern and Southern Africa

Sandy Chuol, 10, heads home with the jerrycan of clean water that she collected at a UNICEF-supported water point, in war-ravaged Malakal Town, South Sudan.

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1 in 3 people globally without access to safe drinking water

New report on inequalities in access to water, sanitation and hygiene also reveals more than half of the world does not have access to safe sanitation.

Jane Tiko feeds a therapeutic formula to her nine-month-old son Simon Ladok in the malnutrition ward in the Al-Sabbah children's hospital in Juba, South Sudan, Wednesday 15 March 2017. The ward is for children who suffer from malnutrition and associated complications.

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Record number facing critical lack of food in South Sudan

61 per cent of the population are projected to face crisis levels of food insecurity or worse

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UNICEF launches swift response to Ebola

After first cases and deaths confirmed in Uganda

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Pocket-sized innovation, giant impact

New app and online system launches in South Sudan to support most vulnerable children

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A Rwanda woman building her country for the next generation

Donata is overseeing construction of Rwanda’s newest early childhood development centre

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115 million boys and men around world married as children

First ever analysis on child grooms brings global child marriage figures to 765 million

Children pass in front of a flame fed by waste and rubber materials

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Areas in Africa where air pollution is reliably measured

More reliable ground-level measurements are required to combat this silent killer of children, particularly in Africa where the problem is growing and grave

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Recent reports

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The Macroeconomic and Social Investment Outlook for Children

Identifying potential threats and opportunities for children so that they prosper during good times and are protected during bad times

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Silent suffocation in Africa

Air pollution is a growing menace, affecting the poorest children the most

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Fiscal Space for Children and Human Capital in ESA

Options and strategic entry points to address investment gaps in 16 countries

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Students wash their hands at a newly built handwashing point at the primary school in Pemba District, Southern Province, Zambia.

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Scoping Study of WASH in Schools Programming in ESA

A review of evidence, bottlenecks and opportunities to meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets

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Sitting in her class, a young girl child writes in her textbook in Kangalita Primary school in a remote area, about 58 kilometers South of the town of Lodwar, in Turkana district in northern Kenya.

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