Source: World Health Organization, UN Children’s Fund Country: Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, World, Yemen More than one in 10 children – almost 20 million worldwide – failed to receive […]

Source: UN Children’s Fund, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Country: Somalia Only 16 per cent of IDP children and 26 per cent in rural communities are enrolled in primary schools. Drought, food insecurity, and poverty also hinder efforts to get more Somaliland children in schools. Education Cannot Wait allocates $6.7 million […]

India is on the frontlines of climate change with extreme heatwaves sweeping across much of the nation this summer. Endemic water shortages, exacerbated by prolonged droughts, likewise serve as stark reminders of the formidable challenges posed by a warming planet. Yet even as India is suffering from climate change it […]

By mid-century some three-quarters of cities worldwide will have climates barely recognizable to their inhabitants today. Meanwhile, a fifth of cities around the planet, including Singapore, Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Kuala Lumpur in Southeast Asia, will experience extreme climatic conditions that do not yet exist anywhere. This is according to […]

Source: Government of Angola Country: Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo Three-day vaccination campaign starts in the province of Lunda Norte to stop the spread of the epidemic from neighbourhood Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cambulo – At least 205,688 children between the ages of zero and five, out of […]