A recent report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has shared that two-thirds of South Sudan’s population may face severe food shortages during next year’s April-to-July lean season due to floods, Read More
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The United Nations Children’s Fund has said that less than 50 percent of children under five years in Nigeria were registered at birth. In a statement released by UNICEF, it said children in Africa have Read More
The United Nations in a report has said that the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic heightened global hunger in African countries. The UN noted that this global hunger accounted for 282 million malnourished people in the Read More
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply an additional 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine to all 55-member states Read More
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the United Nation International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has raised the alarm on the increasing number of child labour worldwide. The duo said that the number of Read More
“I’ve never felt this much pain in my life — it’s unimaginable .At first, they were demanding 800 million naira from the families of the kidnapped students … then they started killing the students to show Read More
At least 5,000 people have been sent fleeing from their homes and 15 people dead after torrents of lava poured into their villages in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Mount Nyiragongo erupted for the first Read More
Amid fears of possible expiration, The United Nations Children’s agency (UNICEF) said it will redistribute more than 1.3 million doses of vaccines meant for the Democratic Republic of Congo. The agency had previously announced the Read More
UNICEF has said that more than 1.42 billion people, live in areas of high or extremely high water vulnerability in the world and one-third of Nigerian children do not have access to enough water. The agency’Read More
The United Nations Children’s Fund has said over the next decade, up to 10 million more girls will be at risk of becoming child brides as a result of the pandemic. UNICEF’s projection was Read More