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UNICEF and Airtel Africa announce partnership to support children and families affected by COVID-19

As millions of children are affected by school closures due to COVID-19, Airtel Africa will help provide access to online learning and better enable cash transfers for children and their families in sub-Saharan Africa

Twins sitting and doing their school work by listening to the radio

Covid19 in Sierra Leone: Bridging the learning gap via radio

Working to keep Sierra Leone’s 2.6 million students learning and positively engaged

Young Girls in sheltering exercise

Education Under Threat in West and Central Africa

Learning at Peril

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Young Girls in sheltering exercise

School closures in West and Central Africa triple since 2017

UNICEF Child Alert warns that upsurge in attacks and threats of violence against schools, students and teachers have pushed more than 1.9 million children out of school

Girl at school in Diffa

27 February 2019

School closures in the Sahel double in the last two years due to growing insecurity – UNICEF

School closures in the Sahel double in the last two years due to growing insecurity – UNICEF

Odia, living for the past four months at the Centre de Transit et d'Orientation (CTO), a UNICEF-supported reintegration centre for children associated with armed groups, in Kasaï region

09 January 2019

Crisis in the Central African Republic

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

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On 28 May in Mali, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore speaks with people on the grounds of the health centre during her visit to the Centre de Sante Communautaire de Safo, in the suburbs of Bamako, the capital of Mali.

Children in Mali bear heaviest brunt of conflict as security situation worsens

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore calls for more investments in children on first visit to Mali

On 22 May 2018, children wash their hands to help contain the Ebola outbreak before entering a classroom in the north-western city of Mbandaka, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Children must be at heart of response to Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Dr. Elvis Badianga Kumbu examines baby Marie after his shift at the Presbyterian Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Friday 26 January 2018.

770,000 children under five suffering from acute malnutrition in Kasai region of Democratic Republic of the Congo

UNICEF report shows worrying humanitarian situation for children

Inter-ethnic conflicts, in the Provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu, have displaced more than 1.3 million people.

Kasai: A Childrens' Crisis

Coping with the impact of conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

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