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Prolonged drought pushing families in Ethiopia to the brink

February 1, 2022

More than 6.8 million people in drought-impacted areas will be in need of urgent humanitarian assistance by mid-March 2022
At least six children killed in northwest Syria overnight

February 3, 2022

Statement by Bertrand Bainvel, acting UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa
On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF warns COVID-19 threatens to reverse decades of progress

February 3, 2022

Millions of girls are at increased risk of female genital mutilation as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A crisis within a crisis: Increased investment critical to end female genital mutilation as COVID-19 rages on

February 4, 2022

Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
UNICEF Geneva Palais Briefing note on the crisis in the Horn of Africa, as well as the impact of Tropical Storm Ana and Cyclone Batsirai on children and communities

February 8, 2022

Summary of what was said by UNICEF Regional Director for Eastern & Southern Africa Mohamed M Fall at February 8, 2022 press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNICEF meets child survivors of the attack on northeast Syria prison

February 6, 2022

UNICEF met with some of the children still detained in the Ghwayran detention centre, in al-Hasakah, northeast Syria.
ACT-Accelerator calls for fair share-based financing of US$ 23 billion to end pandemic as global emergency in 2022

February 9, 2022

World leaders launched a call to end the pandemic as a global emergency in 2022 by funding the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator
UNICEF working to assist tens of thousands following cyclone Batsirai In Madagascar

February 9, 2022

UNICEF and partners in Madagascar are urgently working to support people in need of humanitarian assistance following the devastating impact of cyclone Batsirai
Life “over there”

Posted by UNICEF Canada · February 12, 2022

Children who were previously associated with armed groups describe the terrible war happening in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Urgent support needed for 1.4 million children likely to suffer from acute malnutrition in Somalia

February 15, 2022

Funding immediately needed to procure nutrition supplies and avert deaths