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Save the Children: Sudanese schoolchildren are not a target
Save the Children is deeply saddened by the fatal shootings that led to the deaths of at least five schoolchildren in El Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, and the injuries of many more. The children were protesting the beginning of the school year amid the political uncertainty in Sudan.
Save the Children on UN report on children in armed conflict: “States with powerful friends can get away with destroying children’s lives”
With at least 1,689 Yemeni children killed or maimed in 2018, children are still bearing the brunt of the conflict in Yemen, Save the Children warned today. Some 729 of the child casualties were a result of attacks by the Saudi and Emirati-led coalition, in addition to 15 attacks on schools and hospitals, according to the annual UN-report on Children and Armed Conflict.
More children killed in Idlib in last four weeks than all of 2018
The number of children killed in Idlib in the last four weeks has exceeded the total for 2018, Save the Children and its partner organization Hurras Network have found, as the latest escalation of fighting claimed the lives of eight children on Monday.
Stories from children in Arsal, Lebanon:
“We are not able to play anymore. We sleep out here, in the open…we sleep on bricks, stack bricks and sleep. What can we do?”
Save the Children welcomes highest alert on Ebola outbreak
Save the Children welcomes the decision by the WHO to declare the Ebola outbreak that has been raging in DRC for nearly a year a public health emergency of international concern. This is the time to prevent the virus from spreading any further and for that, the international community must urgently scale up its response and support to the affected countries, Save the Children warns.
SOUTH ASIA FLOODS: More than three million children affected by severe flooding across India, Bangladesh and Nepal
More than a week of heavy monsoon rains in South Asia has led to major flooding in three countries affecting 3.2 million children.
New study reveals massive funding gaps for child protection in crises
A new report launched on Friday by aid agency Save the Children reveals huge funding gaps for child protection in humanitarian crises – leaving children unprotected from violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation, even as they face conflict, displacement and disaster.
AID AGENCIES CALL FOR URGENT ACTION AS FOOD CRISIS LOOMS IN MOZAMBIQUE
Four months after two deadly cyclones swept through northern Mozambique, the food security situation is increasingly worsening. At least 433,000 families have had their farming land destroyed, robbing them of their main source of food and an income. People have now been forced to rely on food handouts to survive.
