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Of these, 189,000 are girls who face the risk of early marriages and Female Genital Mutilation. The 231,000 boys risk being recruited into dangerous and illegal activities.

Violence has internally displaced more than 1.8 million people, almost 10% of the country’s population, a number that keeps rising every day. Many of those displaced now rely on aid to survive.

Conflict and displacement, compounded by extreme weather events, has led to increased protection needs for thousands of affected refugees, internally displaced people and members of host communities.

While casualties from airstrikes, shellfire and shooting reduced significantly since the start of the truce in April, the number of injuries and deaths by mines and unexploded ordnance remained high.

In the Somali region, 930,000 people need emergency and reproductive health support and more than 565,000 have reduced access to protection services, including women, children and GBV survivors.

For the first time since the introduction of the IPC, more than 20,000 people in Ghor are facing catastrophic levels of hunger because of a harsh winter and disastrous agricultural conditions.

UNICEF's education response integrates mental health and psychosocial support, as well as explosive ordnance risk education (EORE), targeting children who are most at risk.

From January to mid-April, Niger registered more than 36,000 new arrivals from Nigeria, Mali and Burkina Faso - an average of more than 2,500 new arrivals every week - for a total of 360,000 refugees.