Gaborone, Feb. 27, ’25 (Xinhua) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), on Wednesday, donated 700,000 pula ($50,772) in emergency aid to Botswana’s Ministry of Child Welfare and Basic Education. The emergency aid is to help vulnerable children affected by the recent floods. The UN agency has heeded the government’s plea to develop child-centred interventions. It […]
More than 15 million children in Sudan are out of school due to the country’s ongoing conflict, the National Council for Child Welfare said on Tuesday. “We have more than 15 million children out of school,” Abdul Qadir Abdullah Abu, the Council’s Secretary-General, said at a press conference in Port Sudan, the capital of Red […]
By Our Correspondent The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in partnership with the States Emergency Management Agencies (SEMA) and other stakeholders have held a workshop on the update of the countrywide risk analysis for Nigeria. TheNewsZenith reports that NEMA convened the two-day workshop with technical support from UNICEF. Speaking at the event, NEMA’s Director-General, Mrs […]
By Abdulfatah Babatunde Gov. Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has solicited more hands of support and friendship with United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Yusuf made the request when he received the visiting Country Director of the UNICEF, Mrs Cristain Munduate in his office in Kano. He said such areas that required more support are education and […]
From Our Correspondent The Oyo State Health Insurance Agency (OYSHIA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have attributed the alarming rising child mortality rates to low enrollment in health insurance schemes in Nigeria. A Health Specialist with UNICEF, Ijeoma Agbo, made these remarks at a two-day media dialogue workshop, recently in Ibadan. TheNewsZenith reports that […]
UNICEF said, on Friday that 700,000 children in Sudan were likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, with tens of thousands who could die. A 10-month war in Sudan between its armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated the country’s infrastructure. This has prompted warnings of famine and […]
From Our Correspondent No fewer than 122 Nigerian children have died of diphtheria as of July 2023, UNICEF’s Communications Officer in Nigeria, Ms Safiya Akau, said in Dutse, Jigawa State, on Thursday. Akau said UNICEF was amplifying its efforts to counter the growing outbreak of the disease that has affected children in 27 states of […]
Malawi, on Tuesday, received a consignment of 2.9 million doses of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) for a single-dose reactive campaign to the Cholera outbreak. The recent outbreak has killed over 200 people since the country reported the first case in March. A joint statement released by the WHO, UNICEF and Malawi G“vernment said the OCV […]
The hunger and malnutrition crisis in South Sudan has escalated, fuelled by climate-induced disasters like flooding alongside civil strife, the United Nations agencies said on Thursday. The World Food Programme (WFP), the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a joint statement in Juba, South […]