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4 Oct 2024
Death rates from cholera outbreaks surge in Sudan and Nigeria as flooding, conflict hinder treatment
Death rates from major cholera outbreaks in Sudan and Nigeria have surged to up to three times the global average putting thousands of children at risk as cases continue to rise as conflict and flooding hamper access to treatment, said Save the Children.
3 Oct 2024
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AIDA Statement: One year of devastation: marking the unprecedented atrocity crimes and suffering in Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel
Statement from The Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA) on the past year of the situation unfolding in Gaza.
3 Oct 2024
One in Six Children in Haiti one step away from famine conditions – Save the Children
One in six children in Haiti are now one step away from famine-like conditions.
2 Oct 2024
LEBANON: Shelters struggling to house families with an unprecedented one million people on the move and new relocation orders issued by Israeli military forces
At least one million people in Lebanon – a fifth of the population – are now displaced, with half leaving their homes in the past four days.
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Heat-stricken Bangladesh extends school closures
Bangladesh has ordered the closure of all primary and secondary schools for another week following country-wide closures brought about by a heatwave.
Afghanistan: Nearly 400,000 children to receive medicines from humanitarian aid flight after rise in preventable illnesses
Nearly 400,000 children to receive medicines from humanitarian aid flight after rise in preventable illnesses
Corporal Punishment: At current rate, 60 years needed to meet 2030 target for global ban to protect children
It will take another 60 years to meet a global target to eliminate of all forms of corporal punishment unless the current rate of progress is sped up.
GAZA: Aid workers find ghost town and children living amid rubble in Khan Younis
PR on destruction in Khan Younis and children digging in rubble
Bangladesh: Extreme heat closes all schools and forces 33 million children out of classrooms
Extreme heat has forced the closure of all schools in Bangladesh this week, impacting 33 million children
PEDAL POWER: Community health workers in Cote d’Ivoire get on their bikes to tackle malaria in remote villages
Thousands of community health workers in Cote d’Ivoire are tackling malaria by cycling between remote villages to treat children and educate families.
HAITI: 600 children daily dodging gunfire as they flee Haitian capital in month of violence
Nearly 600 children a day on average have fled their homes in Port-au-Prince since early March as the capital faces renewed attacks.
Vietnam’s El Niño-induced drought leaves about 73,900 households in Mekong River Delta with limited access to fresh water
About 73,900 households in Vietnam’s Mekong River Delta have limited access to fresh water following a weeks-long heatwave. Save the Children.