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UN Agencies Unite to Strengthen Community Resilience in Gulf of Guinea Amid Displacement Crisis
DAKAR – As the number of refugees fleeing armed conflict and human rights violations in the Central Sahel has sharply increased over the past 12 months in West Africa’s coastal countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations Wor...
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The Gulf of Guinea Joint Response Plan
The Gulf of Guinea Joint Response Plan led by WFP, UNICEF, UNHCR and IOM is a humanitarian response plan that interacts with existing development interventions in the northern regions of Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana and Togo. Its aim is to support national authorities to bridge the gap between humanitarian and deve...
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In Côte d’Ivoire, protecting children and young people on the move during COVID-19
ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire – Almost a year since the COVID-19 crisis began, the pandemic has had a devastating impact on the safety and well-being of children – especially those on the move. An estimated 33 million children are international migrants; tens of millions more have migrated or been forcibly displaced ...
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The crisis in Central Sahel
The surge in armed violence across Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger is having a devastating impact on children’s survival, education, protection and development: 7.2 million children are in need of humanitarian assistance. The Sahel, a region of immense potential, has long been one of the most vulnerable regions in Af...
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Nutrition Crisis in Mali
The nutritional situation of children under 5 years in the Sahel countries remains worrying and may worsen further during the lean season due to poor rainfall recorded in 2017. This year, 1.6 million children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition, which is a 50 percent increase from 2012, the Sahe...
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Democratic Republic of the Congo: violence in Tanganyika and South Kivu fuels one of the world’s worst displacement crises for children – UNICEF
KINSHASA/NEW YORK, 25 January 2018 – At least 1.3 million people, including more than 800,000 children, have been displaced by inter-ethnic violence and clashes between the regular army, militia and armed groups in the provinces of Tanganyika and South Kivu in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), UN...
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Beyond Chibok
The number of children involved in ‘suicide’ attacks in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger has risen sharply over the past year, from 4 in 2014 to 44 in 2015. Released two years after the abduction of over 200 schoolgirls in Chibok, this report shows alarming trends in four countries affected by Boko Haram over the...