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Eastern Ukraine is now one of the most mine-contaminated places on earth, endangering 220,000 children who live, play and go to and from school in areas littered with landmines, unexploded ordnance and other deadly explosive remnants of war, UNICEF warned on Dec 21.

The scale of destruction in Aleppo is massive and heavy equipment is urgently needed to remove debris.

A UNICEF-chartered plane landed in Sana’a, delivering nearly 6 million doses of essential vaccines to protect millions of children at risk of preventable diseases.

French pop artist Christine, of Christine and the Queens, chats with Imani, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at Rmawanja refugee settlement in Uganda.

"It is our duty to make every effort to mitigate the consequences of natural disasters for affected populations", said Michèle Rivasi, Co-President of the ACP-EU JPA.

Against a backdrop of intense human suffering, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) are joining forces to mitigate some of the effects of conflict in Greater Kasai. The two United Nations agencies will be using US$10 million in Belgian government funding to improve access to food for more than 100,000 people. Some 18,000 households – whether displaced, returnee or host families – stand to benefit.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a contribution of €4.4 million (US$5.2 million) from the Government of Germany, which will provide cash-based assistance to almost a quarter of a million Iraqis for one month.

Recent restrictions on imports of fuel to Yemen have sparked critical shortages and price hikes across the country, severely impacting access to safe water and other vital services for children including health care and sanitation. The cuts are the latest challenge to containing Yemen’s acute watery diarrhea and cholera outbreak. Yemen has for decades struggled with extreme water scarcity.

36,000 migrant children are in need of assistance in Libya, figures revealed on International Migrants Day show. Out of an estimated 400,000 migrants, nine per cent are children and, shockingly, more than 14,000 children are also unaccompanied.

A young child walking through the Chonkhola camp for Rohingya refugees in Chakdhala, Bangladesh. Refugees are unable to leave the camp; due to a diphtheria outbreak, everyone must be vaccinated before they can be moved to the main camps around Kutupalong.