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After first cases and deaths confirmed in Uganda

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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A mother and her new born baby at Karenga H/C IV.

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World not delivering quality maternal health care to poorest

Millions of mothers at risk due to prohibitive health care costs, lack of access to services and skilled professionals, and child marriage

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Priyanka Chopra Jonas met children and young people living in the Bambasi refugee camp and Hitsats and Adi-Harush camps, during a visit to Ethiopia with UNICEF.

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Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas visits Ethiopia

to meet refugee children fleeing conflict and humanitarian crises

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Vaccination of children affected by Cyclone Idai

And stepping up of life-saving cholera prevention work in northern areas affected by Cyclone Kenneth

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Additional 368,000 children at risk in Mozambique

after a second devastating storm – Cyclone Kenneth – hits the country in less than six weeks

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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.

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Education at risk for children in Mozambique

More than 3,400 classrooms damaged or destroyed in storm

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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.

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6,000 children reunited with families

After years of separation in South Sudan

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Gina walks to fetch water with her 5-year-old son, Rindra, in Antsirabe, Madagascar.

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