The ongoing crisis in the Horn of Africa will remain a significant part of UNICEF’s global humanitarian response in the coming year, according to the ‘Humanitarian Action for Children 2012’ report, which launches tomorrow. Report by Chris Niles.
UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Louis-Georges Arsenault discusses UNICEF’s annual appeal for emergency funding. The [...]
MBANDAKA, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 16 January 2012 – “At the beginning I thought she had just diarrhea, but when she didn’t stop vomiting I took her to the hospital, where they told me it might be cholera,” said Getou Bofala, 35. Report by Cornelia Walther
She had been sitting at the bedside of her [...]
Pibor County, in South Sudan’s Jonglei State, is the site of recent conflict between members of the Murle and the Lou Nuer tribes. The violence has forced thousands of people to take refuge in surrounding bush areas. Here, UNICEF’s Sunil Verma reports from an assessment mission organized by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. [...]
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I’d been in Haiti after the earthquake in July 2010 and it took me a long time to try to come to terms with what I’d seen. To witness people desperately trying to survive – enduring anywhere they could find a scrap of land to live on. Back then, six months on from the earthquake, [...]
Even as the battle against hunger continues in the drought-hit Horn of Africa, another crisis has begun to unfold in eight countries across West Africa. Report by Priyanka Pruthi
VIDEO: December 2011 – UNICEF correspondent Priyanka Pruthi reports on the growing crisis in Africa’s Sahel region, where more than a million children are at risk of [...]
From famine in the Horn of Africa to flooding in Pakistan and uprisings across the Middle East, 2011 was a challenging year for families in the developing world. Report by Chris Niles
31 December 2011: Watch UNICEF’s year in review.
Extreme weather, rising food prices, and political conflict displaced millions and pushed families to desperation as they [...]
Work must begin “at once” to prevent a disastrous food crisis in West Africa, according to UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake.
“More than one million children in the Sahel region of Africa could face life-threatening malnutrition in 2012 if the global community does not take immediate action,” Lake said in a statement.
Poor harvests are putting the [...]
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