Page

Press centre

Access news, multimedia resources and expert commentary on children’s issues and UNICEF’s work across the region.

Children use their tablet and work with each other at the UNICEF supported Debate e-Learning Centre in a village on the outskirts of Kassala, the capital of the state of Kassala in Eastern Sudan.

Available in:
English
العربية

Subscribe to get the latest news from UNICEF in the Middle East and North Africa

Latest news from the region

Young children are walking around in the neighborhood in boots despite the hot weather because they still worry about the floods and drowning, they have been displaced to a whole new city that they are still trying to familiarize themselves with.

Press release

28 September 2023

More than 16,000 children are displaced following Libya floods - UNICEF

Visit the page

nutrition, Sudan, malnutrition, infant nutrition, health, boy, girl, infant, nutrition screening, MUAC

Statement

24 September 2023

Tens of thousands of Sudanese children on the brink of death before the year ends

Read now

On 12 April 2022 in Ashti camp, Arbat City, Iraq, 10-month-old Shahad Mahmood (sitting in the lap of her grandmother) gets ready to receive a routine immunisation at her home.

Press release

18 September 2023

Two-thirds of global goals for children’s rights and well-being off-pace to meet 2030 targe

Visit the page

Press release

14 September 2023

Nearly 300,000 children affected in Libya after Storm Daniel devastates entire communities - UNICEF

Visit the page

Sabna Mohamed sits with her 9-month-old daughter, Fatuma, at their home in Wager village, North Delta locality, Kassala State, Sudan.

Press release

14 September 2023

Children bearing brunt of stalled progress on extreme poverty reduction worldwide

Visit the page

Morocco. People walk past destroyed houses after an earthquake in the mountain village of Tafeghaghte, southwest of the city of Marrakesh

News note

11 September 2023

At least 100,000 children affected by Morocco earthquake - UNICEF

Read now

Press release

30 August 2023

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre announces new US$3.5 million contribution to UNICEF’s life-saving nutrition, water and sanitation support to the earthquake-affected children and familie

Visit the page

Group Photo - FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO join efforts to address child malnutrition affecting millions of children in the region

Press release

28 August 2023

FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO join efforts to address child malnutrition affecting millions of children in the region

Visit the page

Children get water access at home for the first time in 2022 thanks to UNICEF innovative 'revolving fund' program

Press release

28 August 2023

UN Committee on the Rights of the Child calls on states to take action in first guidance on children's rights and the environment, with a focus on clim

Visit the page

On 15 August 2023, a child poses for a photograph at a gathering point for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in Wad Madani, Sudan.

Press release

24 August 2023

More than two million children displaced by brutal conflict in Sudan as violence spreads to new areas

Visit the page

Statement

01 August 2023

Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week

Read now