UNICEF says 75% of Nigerian Children Can’t Read
Seventy-five per cent of Nigerian children between the ages of seven and 14 are reportedly incapable of reading a single sentence or even resolving a...
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UNICEF Raises Alarm Over Russia’s Explosive Munitions Consequences On Ukraine’s Children
Half a million children have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine by Russia’s invasion and devastating aerial assault, the U.N. children’s agency (UNICEF)...
Reports of excessive use of force against children in Sudan
“The increase in inter-communal violence in West Darfur, most recently in Jebel Moon has resulted in a high death toll, including children. Families continue to...
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UNICEF Partners Liquid Intelligent Technologies To Bridge Giga’s Digital Divide In Africa
UNICEF and Liquid Intelligent Technologies (Liquid.Tech), a business of Cassava Technologies, a pan-African technology group, announced today a partnership in support of Giga’s work to...
Mastercard Foundation, Africa CDC’s Saving Lives and Livelihoods Give 15 million Vaccines
The Mastercard Foundation (www.MastercardFdn.org) and Africa CDC jointly announced that 15.2 million vaccines purchased under the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative are currently being distributed across...
Nokia, UNICEF, Orange Foundation Partner To Empower Young People In Morocco
Nokia (Nokia.com), UNICEF and Orange Foundation to empower young people with digital, entrepreneurial and environmental skills, as well as knowledge about climate change as part...
Early Pregnancies Rife As 13-Year-Olds Bear Children In Lesotho
More teenage girls are admitted to the maternity ward of Quthing government hospital than women of childbearing age. “We see them mostly because we admit...
United States Donates 3.6m COVID-19 Pfizer Vaccines to Egypt
The U.S Embassy welcomed the arrival of the third shipment in three weeks of Pfizer’s Coronavirus vaccines to Cairo on October 30. This shipment of...
G20 Members Received 15 Times More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Than Sub-Saharan African Countries
Ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit this weekend, 48 UNICEF Africa ambassadors and supporters unite, calling on countries to deliver doses by December G20 countries...
Germany Donates 163,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses To Somalia
Somalia scaled up its battle to end the COVID-19 pandemic after receiving 163 000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines from the Government of Germany through the...