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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
12/1/2023 6:31:00 PM
The United Nations children's agency UNICEF condemned the resumption of fighting, saying: "Today, those in power have decided that the killing of children would recommence."
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
11/22/2023 11:00:07 PM
The head of the United Nations children's agency on Wednesday called the besieged Gaza Strip "the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," and said that the hard-won truce deal between Israel and Hamas was not enough to save their lives.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/7/2023 10:56:09 AM
Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population, in collaboration with UNFPA Egypt, WHO, and UNICEF, launched the country’s National Midwifery Strategy in early November, according to a statement from the ministry.
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World
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Africa
10/23/2023 10:30:55 PM
Three nurses care for a 10-year-old girl at a clinic treating dozens of patients in Kano, northern Nigeria, amid the country's worst diphtheria outbreak which has killed hundreds of people since the start of the year.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/22/2023 7:50:09 PM
The humanitarian situation for the 2.3 million Palestinians struggling to survive under the complete Israeli blockade on food, water, and fuel for two weeks in the Gaza Strip is reaching catastrophic levels — according to all reports from inside the strip as well as the UN and international aid organizations.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/22/2023 3:48:27 PM
The lives of at least 120 newborn babies in incubators in war-torn Gaza's hospitals are at risk as fuel runs out in the blockaded strip, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Sunday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/14/2023 2:40:55 PM
The U.N. children’s agency is calling for an immediate cease-fire and humanitarian access into the Gaza Strip, saying hundreds of thousands of children and their families have started fleeing northern Gaza.
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World
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International
9/13/2023 11:14:28 AM
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a sharp slowdown in the fight to end child poverty, with 333 million children still living in extreme poverty, according to a report published Wednesday.
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World
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War in Ukraine
8/29/2023 5:09:30 PM
Years of disrupted schooling have left Ukrainian children struggling to learn language, maths and reading skills in the wake of the pandemic and Russia's invasion, the United Nations warned Tuesday.
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World
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International
8/25/2023 5:36:03 PM
The United Nations children’s agency on Friday warned that a year on from Pakistan's devastating floods, an estimated 4 million children continue to need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services as a shortage of funds remains a hurdle in recovery.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/15/2023 9:38:01 PM
A broader range of perspectives must be heard if fear-mongering and the suppression of inconvenient truths are not to push us towards the wrong solutions to the world’s problems.
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Egypt
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Society
8/13/2023 7:47:54 PM
According to a recent review of the industry, UNICEF Egypt's Head of Education Shiraz Shakra listed the top three obstacles facing Egypt's educational system on Sunday, emphasizing the need to give these issues top priority and improve education in Egypt to make it more accessible, egalitarian, and of high quality.
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World
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International
7/14/2023 3:30:38 PM
Some 289 children are known to have died in the first half of 2023 while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, the United Nations said Friday.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/5/2023 8:57:02 PM
Around 18 million doses of the first malaria vaccine will be delivered to 12 African countries by 2025, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and the Vaccine Alliance said Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
6/28/2023 5:19:38 PM
The United Nations said Wednesday it was "ringing the alarm" on the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked northeast Nigeria, with surging numbers of people needing help.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/16/2023 5:14:59 PM
The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk".
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World
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Africa
5/23/2023 5:19:50 PM
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday that children in the Horn of Africa face an unprecedented crisis that includes hunger, displacement, water shortages, and insecurity.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
5/2/2023 9:22:53 PM
A new report looks at the attitudes of young people across the Arab world covering such issues as identity, present problems, and future hopes and aspirations, writes
Eman Ragab
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Life & Style
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Health
4/20/2023 2:31:34 PM
Nearly 13 million children missed one or more vaccinations in Africa between 2019 and 2021 because of the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving the continent vulnerable to even more outbreaks of disease and facing a “child survival crisis,” a new report from UNICEF said Thursday.
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Opinion
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4/8/2023 12:52:33 AM
A joint message by the Egypt Country Representatives of WHO, FAO, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNAIDS, UNHCR, IOM and the Resident Coordinator in Egypt on the event of the World Health Day, 7 April 2023.
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