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Humanitarian action and emergencies

From insight to action: Examining mortality in Somalia

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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.

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

22 December 2022

Regional Call to Action

Horn Of Africa Drought Crisis: Climate Change Is Here Now

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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

A nutrition expert instructs a mother on how to prepare a meal for her child

Irish Aid provides Euro 1 million to UNICEF Eritrea for its Humanitarian Action for Children (HAC) for 2020

Since 2015, Ireland has provided the Eritrea Humanitarian Action for Children with €5.5 million

A child standing in flood water in Pibor, South Sudan.

25 October 2019

490,000 children affected by devastating floods

A child receives a drop of oral vaccine

Protecting children against measles and rubella

In Zimbabwe, a measles-rubella catch-up campaign succeeds in overcoming logistical and religious barriers.

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.

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

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.

Goodwill Ambassador Priyanka Chopra Jonas visits Ethiopia

to meet refugee children fleeing conflict and humanitarian crises

Two children pose against some rocks

After Cyclone Idai, uncertain futures for children

As floodwaters recede in Zimbabwe, UNICEF is working to protect orphaned and unaccompanied children who have lost everything.