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The EU Humanitarian Aid Operations and UNICEF Unveil New Initiative to Safeguard Crisis-Impacted Children in North-East Nigeria
ABUJA, 19 June 2023, – UNICEF in partnership with the EU Humanitarian Aid Operations today launched a groundbreaking programme to expedite life-saving responses, and deliver essential nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene supplies to children in Nigeria’s conflict affected North-East region. This new collaboration be...
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More than 1.5 million children at risk as devastating floods hit Nigeria
ABUJA/NEW YORK, 21 October 2022–, More than 2.5 million people in Nigeria are in need of humanitarian assistance – 60 per cent of which are children – and are at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in the past decade, UNICEF warned today. The floods, whi...
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UNICEF’s women drivers at the forefront of delivering for children in north-east Nigeria
Whenever she drives around the city of Maiduguri, north-east Nigeria, her eyes fixed on the road, Vivian Ahmed, 39, commands attention. Ahmed, a mother of three is one of a small but growing group of female drivers employed by UNICEF in Nigeria. Driving from meetings with officials to communities and to camps for ...
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Humanitarians demand action on climate change
To commemorate 2021 World Humanitarian Day, humanitarian workers in Nigeria lent their voices to efforts to end the impact of climate challenges facing the most vulnerable, including children, who usually bear the brunt of climate change. “We must speak for vulnerable people. I am happy that climate change is at t...
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Deaths of children through unexploded ordnance unacceptable - UNICEF
ABUJA, 14 August 2021, –, UNICEF today condemned the deaths of three children in Borno, north-east Nigeria, who were reportedly killed by unexploded remnants of war. The avoidable deaths of the children – as young as 12 years – who were playing on Mblu Bridge in Ngala, is yet another sad reminder that children remain direct and indirect targets of the protracted conflict…
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A Carnage Before Dawn
On the night of the 1st of March 2018, the news was transmitted, an armed group had overrun the military installations in the town of Rann, Kala Balge LGA, a town at the Nigeria/Cameroonian border in Borno State. I immediately sprung up with utter surprise and reached for my mobile phone to call my friend and coll...
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UNICEF seeks $3.3 billion in emergency assistance for 48 million children caught up in conflict and other crises
NEW YORK/GENEVA, 31 January 2017, – 48 million children living through some of the world’s worst conflicts and other humanitarian emergencies will benefit from UNICEF’s 2017 appeal, which was launched today. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq, from South Sudan to Nigeria, children are under direct attack, their homes, ...