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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.

 

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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.

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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. 

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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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FIVE-FOLD INCREASE IN CHILDREN UPROOTED BY VIOLENCE IN WEST AFRICA’S CENTRAL SAHEL

Escalating violence has led to a five-fold surge in the number of children forced from their homes over the past five years in central Sahel.

Intense rains and floods close schools, destroy crops in the Peruvian Amazon

Intense rains and floods close schools, destroy crops in the Peruvian Amazon

  • More than 8,700 people including 3,700 children from indigenous and rural communities affected 

  • Classrooms and health centers submerged under water, crop losses are exacerbating hunger, and lack of water has led to disease outbreaks. 

A group of Rohingya children play puzzles in a session carried out by the Geutanyoe Foundation, Save the Children's local partner, in a camp in Aceh, Indonesia.

Spike in arrivals of unaccompanied Rohingya children in Indonesia highlights increasing desperation – Save the Children

About 250 unaccompanied Rohingya children arrived in Indonesia in the last three months of 2023.

Children drew some boats on the wall of a room in the Rohingya camp in Aceh

"No person should have to make a dangerous journey in search of a better life" says Save the Children after boat carrying Rohingya capsizes off coast of Indonesia

A boat carrying Rohingya refugees reportedly capsized off the coast of Kuala Bubon in Indonesia.

A woman with an empty pan in Gaza

“I am seeing my son dying and I can’t do anything”: Children and families in Northern Gaza just weeks away from famine

Save the Children press release on hunger in Gaza showing children and families facing imminent famine

Two neighbouring southern Africa nations are battling completely opposite weather disasters this month, with Zambia experiencing its worst drought in two decades while Malawi battles floods that have displaced thousands, Save the Children said.  Rains have failed in Zambia for seven weeks consecutively at a time wh

A Tale of Two El Niños: Malawi underwater while neighbour Zambia dries out

Two neighbouring southern Africa nations are battling completely opposite weather disasters this month, with Zambia experiencing its worst drought in

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MORE THAN ONE MILLION CHILDREN TRAPPED AS GANG VIOLENCE RAGES IN HAITI

More than one million children in Haiti – a quarter of the nation’s children – are living in areas controlled or under the influence of armed groups.

A man with a Save the Children vest walks along a street in Demak, Indonesia.

INDONESIA: Floods force more than 15,000 children from their homes in Sumatra as Indonesia battles second climate crisis in a month

Flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have affected about 15,500 children and 40,000 families.