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Over 55,000 grave crimes committed against children in African conflict zones in five years alone
There have been more than 55,882 grave violations against children in conflict affected areas in Africa between 2014 and 2018 according to new analysis by Save the Children [1]. This includes children being killed, maimed or sexually assaulted - despite commitments by African leaders to end all wars on the continent by 2020.
Hundreds of thousands in northwest Syria caught in humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies warn
As hostilities continue to escalate in northwest Syria, eight aid agencies are today making an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire as they warn that hundreds of thousands of people – the majority of them women and children – fleeing the unrelenting violence are caught in a humanitarian catastrophe.
Fears grow for Palestinian children enduring new wave of instability following Middle East ‘Peace Proposal’
Since the proposal was announced, protests and clashes have erupted across the occupied Palestinian territory and the region, with some parents in West Bank and Gaza choosing not to send their children to school for fear of violence. More than forty people have reportedly sustained injuries, mostly from tear gas inhalation. We deplore any acts of violence emboldened by, or in reaction to, the plan or any party’s response to it.
Save the Children expresses deep concern for the Middle East…
The reopening of Sanaa airport for medical flights ‘a lifeline’ for thousands of children
For the first time in three years, the Sanaa airport reopens today, restoring vital medical flights for children who are stuck in Yemen without access to life-saving treatment, Save the Children said.
Northwest Syria: Thousands of displaced children forced to flee their homes again as violence escalates in Idlib and Aleppo
As a new wave of violence hits Idlib and Western Aleppo, Save the Children confirms that as many as 200,000 children and their families have been forced to abandon their homes in northern Syria over the last two months.* According to the United Nations, 34 children – 14 girls and 20 boys – have died in the escalating violence since January 15th 2020. Throughout January, at least 37,000 children have been forced to flee in the bitter Syrian winter, often taking only what they can carry.**
9 million children could die in a decade unless world acts on pneumonia, leading agencies warn
Malnutrition, air pollution and lack of access to vaccines and antibiotics among the drivers of preventable deaths from pneumonia—which last year killed a child every 39 seconds
Plague of locusts ravages three East African countries as region prepares for another year of hunger
The worst plague of Desert Locusts in a generation is ravaging crops and other vegetation across the Horn of Africa with Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia battling to contain the escalating crisis. The outbreaks in Ethiopia and Somalia are the worst in 25 years and in Kenya the worst in 75 years.
PHILIPPINES: More than 20,000 children evacuated from the ‘danger zone’ around erupting volcano
Thousands of children in evacuation centres are scared and confused and need urgent support, warns Save the Children
