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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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World
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Region
3/25/2023 3:00:14 PM
Nearly 11 million children in Yemen are in need of humanitarian assistance after eight years of conflict and without urgent action, millions could face ever greater risks of hunger and malnourishment, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday.
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World
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Africa
3/20/2023 5:48:55 PM
Malawi faces increased risk of a surge in cholera cases following the devastation caused by Cyclone Freddy that has destroyed water systems and toilets, the health ministry warned Monday.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
2/27/2023 12:41:52 PM
Japan and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have announced a new partnership to provide humanitarian assistance to vulnerable children and families in the governorates of North Sinai and Ismailia, with Japan contributing over $833,000 to the project.
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World
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International
11/23/2022 5:25:15 PM
A cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing number of children amid a surge in malnutrition, UNICEF announced Wednesday.
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COP27
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Climate change
11/8/2022 1:57:00 PM
Number of children affected by flooding in Chad, Gambia, Pakistan and north-east Bangladesh highest in over 30 years.
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World
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International
9/21/2022 1:23:22 PM
Devastating floods in Pakistan's worst-hit province have killed 10 more people in the past day, including four children, officials said Wednesday as the U.N. children's agency renewed its appeal for $39 million to help the most vulnerable flood victims.
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World
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International
9/20/2022 10:29:34 PM
At least 11 schoolchildren died in an air strike and firing on a Myanmar village, according to the United Nations children's agency, an attack the country's junta said targeted rebels hiding in the area.
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