In 2024, at least 5,230 children sustained injuries requiring rehabilitation that is inaccessible due to continued attacks on healthcare, leaving them with a high likelihood of disability.
Latest data reveals 1,041,000 people, many displaced multiple times, are struggling amid an intensifying crisis. Children bear the greatest burden of displacement, making up over half of the numbers.
Children are disproportionately hit by climate change due to their physiological and developmental characteristics. Under-fives bear 88% of the global disease burden associated with climate change.
Conflict in DR Congo has created one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with nearly 7 million people, including at least 3.5 million children, displaced and one in four people in need of aid.
Each day without a ceasefire risks more children’s futures. Even after one, restoring schools and the physical and mental safety children need to be able to resume learning will be a mammoth task.
The systems providing essential social services are on the brink of a collapse, said UNICEF. We can invest in rebuilding them and provide lifesaving health and nutrition services amid the conflict.
Madagascar + 1 more
This is the second cyclone to hit Mozambique in only a month; in Madagascar, Dikeledi resulted in three deaths, 352 people displaced and 750 children out of school.
On 8 January 2025, an aerial attack in Kyauk Nima Village in Ramree Township reportedly killed more than 40 civilians, and destroyed about 500 homes, with children and women among the casualties.
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) is teaming up with ReliefWeb to share its latest analyses, data, and resources related to the world’s most pressing food emergencies. FEWS NET’s latest reporting on global food security is available via ReliefWeb updates.
Extreme seasonal flooding in South Sudan is expected to persist through November, leaving devastation in its wake. While...
