UNICEF Nigeria has taken significant steps to address the ongoing diphtheria outbreak in the country by procuring 9.3 million doses of diphtheria vaccines to be distributed…
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Hunger is widespread and chronic in Nigeria, and its prevalence is one phenomenon that statistics cannot fully capture; not even the global hunger index does justice…
The number of pregnant women and nursing mothers who are malnourished has climbed by 25% since 2020 in 12 countries affected by global food crisis. UNICEF…
Malawi has received 2.9 million doses of oral cholera vaccine as an outbreak continues to spread across the country. The vaccine consignment comes as the death…
Nearly seven million children in Sudan are not going to school as worsening crises threaten to disrupt the education of millions more, the UN and an…
On the occasion of the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF and WHO have expressed the importance of breastfeeding and called on governments to allocate increased resources…
A UNICEF official has stated that Ethiopia’s drought-stricken population could face a full-blown famine without immediate help. Ethiopia Representative, Gianfranco Rotigliano stated that his agency is…
Today is the International Day of the African Child. It is a day set aside to draw attention to the plights of the African children. On…
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria says that out of the more than 18.5 million out of school children currently in Nigeria, 60 percent…
According to UNICEF, Zimbabwe’s maternal mortality rate has decreased from 960 deaths per 100 000 live births in 2010 to 462 deaths per 100 000 live…