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Dreaming of the Ivy League in Sudan

A student in a camp for internally displaced persons aces an exam – and brings his dream of Columbia University a step closer

20/06/2019

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Hope in their hands: Refugee children on their keepsakes

Syrian refugee children share the stories behind their most precious objects

17/06/2019

A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.

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One woman and six newborns die every two hours from complications during pregnancy or childbirth in Yemen - UNICEF

14/06/2019

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Children killed, injured, detained and abused amid escalating violence and unrest in Sudan

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

11/06/2019

Syria. Children rest beneath a tree at a makeshift camp in Aqrabat village.

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Fleeing violence in Syria

Escalating violence in northwest Syria has left tens of thousands of children at imminent risk of injury, death and displacement

10/06/2019

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Tens of thousands of children in grave danger as violence escalates in northwest Syria

Statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore

30/05/2019

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Children’s lives and well-being in danger as fighting intensifies in Tripoli, Libya

Joint statement by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, and Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict

18/04/2019

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North Sinai attack reportedly kills two children

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

10/04/2019

Yemen. A baby suffering from malnutrition.

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Blast in Sana’a kills another 14 children in school and injures 16, most under the age of nine

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

09/04/2019

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“I didn’t believe my sister was still alive”

Four years into the Yemen conflict, families are struggling to feed themselves. That’s having a devastating impact on their health

29/03/2019

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