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Yemen: ‘No justification for this carnage,’ says UNICEF chief, as children in need now outnumber population of Switzerland

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In June 2018, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore interacts with children in Yemen at...

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Mali joins call for increased efforts to end the plight of child malnutrition

The economy of Mali is losing 265 billion CFA francs (US$450 million) – more than 4 percent of annual GDP – to the effects of child undernutrition, a multi-agency study has found. The Cost of Hunger in Mali (COHA), blames the losses on increased...

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WFP welcomes vital US$6.5 million USAID contribution, which restores full rations to refugees in Rwanda

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a US$6.5 million contribution from the United States of America in support of Congolese and Burundian refugees in Rwanda. This contribution restores full food rations to these refugees and brings...

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Almost Three in Four Rohingya Children out of School and at Risk of Becoming a Lost Generation, Warns Save the Children

Save the Children is calling for an urgent and significant scale up of education programming for Rohingya children living in Bangladesh’s overcrowded refugee camps, ahead of the UN leadership’s most high-profile visit to Cox’s Bazar to date.

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