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Two sick children from Rukban die in less than one week

Statement from Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

13/12/2018

South Sudan. Children sit in a child friendly space in South Sudan

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Making South Sudan’s families whole again

Five years of violence has torn thousands of South Sudanese families apart

13/12/2018

On 10 December 2018 in the Syrian Arab Republic, a child in Douma, East Ghouta. The siege on East Ghouta, including Douma city, was lifted in April 2018 after almost seven years of besiegement and conflict. Douma is home to the largest population in East Ghouta with more than 250,000 people living amidst large scale urban destruction, wide contamination with explosive remnants of war and limited access to essential services.

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Half of Syria’s children have grown up only seeing violence as conflict nears eight-year mark: UNICEF

UNICEF Chief wraps up five-day visit to war-torn country, says reaching all children, wherever they are, and meeting their needs remains critical

13/12/2018

Caseworker Simon Char is recording information about Falluoch Jeremia, 11, and his family. He hasn’t seen his parents in two years. Last time they saw each other was when bullets were flying in Malakal. They got separated and haven’t seen each other since. The information recorded, Simon will use to try and locate his parents. UNICEF and partners have reunified close to 6000 children since the conflict broke out in 2013. Still, over 12,000 children are waiting for family tracing and reunification.

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15,000 children without parents or missing, five years after out-break of fighting in South Sudan

13/12/2018

Silhouettes of children in front of a sunset, South Sudan

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Former child soldier reunited with family in South Sudan

19,000 children have been recruited into armed forces since the start of the conflict

12/12/2018

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In Nigeria, a new start for children who survived abductions

When Fati was taken by an armed group in her hometown, she thought she'd never see her family again

12/12/2018

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Latest threat to displaced children in Iraq: winter

UNICEF racing against time to protect over 151,000 internally displaced children

10/12/2018

Central African Republic. A child is treated for malnutrition in Bangui

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Crisis in the Central African Republic

In a neglected emergency, children need aid, protection – and a future

04/12/2018

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Statement on the situation in Bentiu, South Sudan

Joint statement by Mark Lowcock, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, and Natalia Kanem, United Nations Population Fund Executive Director

03/12/2018

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Conflict shuts a third of schools in Hudaydah

More than 60,000 boys and girls are out of school because of the fighting in and around Yemen's port city

30/11/2018

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