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A woman tends to her herd of goats in Niger, a country in Sub-Saharan Africa that recorded the lowest Human Development Index (HDI) value in 2017. As a region, Sub-Saharan Africa fared poorly on development indicators, including health, education and income.

UNICEF welcomes the release of 833 children from the ranks of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Maiduguri, northeast Nigeria, as part of its commitment to end and prevent the recruitment and use of children.

UNICEF and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) renewed their commitment to fighting poverty and promoting the health and wellbeing of children and young people in Asia and the Pacific, in a memorandum of understanding signed in Bali, Indonesia on October 11, 2018.

View of damaged cars and houses at Balaroa National Park, West Palu, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia after the earthquake and tsunami that struck there on September 28, 2018.

A young girl writes on a whiteboard during class at a school in Dohuk governorate, Iraq.

Two-year-old Abner laughs while being carried by his father, James Choc, in San Felipe Village in Belize, August 2016.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) this week welcomes a generous contribution of US$218 million (€185 million) from Germany to continue providing a lifeline of support for Syrians affected by the ongoing conflict.

An aerial view of Zaíatri refugee camp near Mafraq, Jordan, host to tens of thousands of Syrians displaced by conflict. 7 December 2012.

Extreme weather conditions during Syria's seventh year of conflict has caused domestic cereal production to decline sharply, two UN agencies announced on October 09, 2018.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomes a contribution of US$8 million from the Russian Federation to improve the food security and nutrition situation of 100,000 vulnerable smallholder farmers across the Kyrgyz Republic.