Tens of thousands of families displaced by fighting in DR Congo’s South Kivu as UNICEF scales up humanitarian response
Stories & Blogs UNICEF (Press Release )Children face killings, recruitment by armed groups, and sexual violence as conflict cripples schools, health services, and access to clean water.
“The new generation is different”: In Djibouti, survivors and allies lobby to end female genital mutilation.
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (News )“I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil.
Explainer: How does family planning save lives?
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (News )When a war forcibly displaces tens of thousands of people, UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, equips displacement camps and medical personnel with critical supplies…
Giving birth under fire in North Kivu, as conflict grips the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (News )As fighting intensified in North Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Francine Toyata clutched her pregnant belly, waves of pain coursing through her.
For World Children’s Day, children across southern Africa came together to demand a better future
Stories & Blogs UNICEF (Story )Children from seven nations—Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—gathered to share their dreams, concerns, and solutions, urging leaders to prioritise their voices
Generations unite in Nigeria’s HPV vaccine campaign.
Stories & Blogs UNICEF (Story )A community health mobilizer in Nigeria is combating vaccine misinformation and building trust, one family member at a time.