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SUDAN: More than 50,000 displaced within Kadugli as town nears siege conditions

Children and families living in near-siege conditions in Kadugli in southern Sudan have run out emergency food supplies as fighting escalates

PAKISTAN : A YEAR ON, ITS CHILDREN ARE STILL TRAUMATISED BY WORST FLOODS EVER

One year after Pakistan’s worst floods, children are terrified of a repeat of the disaster that submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,700 lives.

Children being locked up with adult sex offenders could “explode into a child protection crisis of epic proportions”

The fact that children arrive here having made treacherous journeys only to be locked up is already a breach of their rights and against their best interests.

Living on 21p a day: Six years after fleeing violence, Rohingya families survive on rice and oil

Six years after 750,000 Rohingya people fled violence in Myanmar to seek safety in Bangladesh, the health and wellbeing of more than half a million children is at risk.

Ukraine: Child casualties rise in deadly summer with over 540 children killed in 18 months of war

Since May 2023, a total of 148 children have been killed or injured in Ukraine, bringing the number of child casualties since the escalation of war on 24 Feb last year.

Nearly 500 Children die from hunger in Sudan as fighting halts life-saving treatment programmes

At least 498 children in Sudan and likely hundreds more have died from hunger, including two dozen babies in a state orphanage, as critical services run out of food.

NIGERIA: MORE THAN 1,600 SCHOOLCHILDREN KIDNAPPED IN NIGERIA SINCE THE 2014 CHIBOK GIRLS ABDUCTION

A total of 1,683 schoolchildren have been kidnapped in Nigeria since the 2014 abduction of 276 schoolgirls from Chibok in Borno State.

Afghanistan: Three in four children surveyed are eating less amid soaring hunger, as country marks two years of Taliban rule

Three quarters of children (76.1%) surveyed by Save the Children in Afghanistan said they are eating less than a year ago as the country faces soaring hunger.