Home | UNICEF Eastern and Southern Africa

News from across the region

Jenifer Tete

Article

17 year old head of household committed to stay in school

Jenifer Tete's story from Uganda

On 21 March 2019 in Mozambique, Helcio Filipe Antonio holds a boy named Anderson Tackdi the Samora Michel High School in Beira. The Samora Michelle High School is one of the places used as a living space for people from Buzi, Mozambique that has been displaced by the floods caused by Cyclone Idai.

Press release

Education at risk for children in Mozambique

More than 3,400 classrooms damaged or destroyed in storm

Tears of happiness when Emmanuela* 36, met her children in Bentiu Protection of Civilian (POC) site after five years of separation on 16th, April 2019.

Press release

6,000 children reunited with families

After years of separation in South Sudan

A child receives an oral vaccine

Press release

Cyclone-affected communities vaccinated against cholera

Campaign targets nearly 500,000 people in Chimanimani and Chipinge, Zimbabwe

Portrait of a adolescent boy

Photo Essay

Abdimajid Hassan: a refugee’s story

How sports, play-based learning, and education provide brighter futures and support the integration of refugees into Ethiopia’s host communities.

A health worker measures the upper-arm circumference of an infant

Article

On the move in Malawi

Mobile clinic helps malnourished children

View more stories

Go to press centre

Recent reports

A student, holding a UNICEF-provided computer tablet, speaks about the human digestive system in front of her class at a school in Bagai, northern Cameroon.

Report

Raising Learning Outcomes

The opportunities and challenges of ICT for learning

See the full report

A smiling adolescent girl, holding school supplies and a calculator, leans against the blackboard during a class.

Report

All In, in Eastern and Southern Africa

Catalysing the HIV response for adolescents

See the full report

Congolese refugee Everest Andama, 27, cradles his five-year-old daughter.

Report

ESA Institutional Support in in PMR Initiative 2014-2017

Moving from islands of excellence to implementation at scale in programme monitoring and response for child health

See the full report

Community Adolescent Treatment Supporters (CATS) under go training for a mobile application at a Resource Centre in Kotwa, Zimbabwe

Report

Using knowledge exchange to support innovations in PMR

Using a community of practice to support near real-time monitoring of local health and nutrition interventions in the region

See the full report

More research and reports

Our presence in the region

Newborn infant boy who suffers from jaundice and sepsis and weighs only 1.3 kilograms, has his hand held by his grandmother.

Page

UNICEF works to protect the rights of every child across the region

Sleeping baby in South Sudan.

Page

Learn about UNICEF's mandate to uphold the rights of all children

Map of East and Southern Africa

Page

Explore our presence across the region where we are on the ground for the good of children.

Regional director portrait

Page

Leila Pakkala, Regional Director

Meet UNICEF’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Leila Pakkala