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Climate change and impacts

20 November 2023

Children and leaders from four Southern African countries renew their commitment to children’s rights

Leaders of Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe rally around education and the climate crisis in Walvis Bay to mark World Children’s Day

Safidy Andrianantenaina

01 September 2023

Time to Act

African children in the climate change spotlight

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Mothers and their children at an IDP camp in Dollow, Somalia

22 December 2022

More than twenty million children suffering in the Horn of Africa as drought intensifies – UNICEF

UN children’s agency warns of funding shortfall as the region faces an unprecedented fifth consecutive failed rainy season and poor outlook for the sixth.

06 December 2022

UNICEF appeals for US$10.3 billion emergency funding to support children affected by conflict, catastrophe and climate crises around the world

Eastern and Southern Africa will need more than US$1.6 billion to deliver life-saving services to at least 27 million children in the region

Maho Voatsagnonbe, Ajaramee's mother, standing on the family cassava plantation field.

Working with Women and Girls to Centre Gender Equality in Cl

An advocacy brief from Eastern and Southern Africa ahead of the 66th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

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07 December 2021

UNICEF launches US$9.4 billion emergency funding appeal for children affected by conflict, the climate crisis and COVID-19

Eastern and Southern Africa will need US$1.09 billion to deliver life-saving services to 95 million children in the region

20 November 2021

Four Southern African Presidents gather with children in Botswana to celebrate World Children’s Day

Flooded land

10 September 2020

The Climate Crisis

Climate change impacts, trends and vulnerabilities: Children in sub-Saharan Africa

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SAFOULA Lovely, 10 years old, student in grade 10

Coronavirus, climate and locusts

East Africa’s children face crises on three fronts

Alamerew Salilew, junior geologist at the Regional Bureau of Water, Bahir Dar, Amhara

06 December 2018

Combining groundwater mapping with capacity building

To strengthen climate-resilient WASH in northern Amhara, Ethiopia