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A pause in hostilities in Gaza will protect children from bombs and bullets for as long as it holds but must be the turning point to secure a definitive ceasefire and to rapidly increase humanitarian aid to children facing malnutrition and disease, said Save the Children.

Escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has displaced 100,000 people - more than half of whom are children - since the start of this year, with the conflict blocking access for aid teams, said Save the Children.

Children made up just under half - 44% - of predominantly Rohingya refugees leaving Bangladesh and Myanmar by boat in 2024 as the number of people taking to sea continues to rise.

At least 18.2 million children were born into hunger, or about 35 children a minute, in 2024.

Around 103 million children - one in three - living in conflict or fragile countries around the world were out of school in 2024.

"Children are famine’s first victims and are already facing avoidable and excruciating deaths due to malnutrition and disease," Mary Lupul, Save the Children's Sudan Humanitarian Director.

Families living in Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp are resorting to desperate measure like eating one meal a day and some as far as eating animal feed to survive after four months of famine has children facing extreme food shortages with 19 months of fighting taking toll on besieged North Darfur region, Save the Children said.

Save the Children condemns killing of staff member in Israeli air strike in Gaza

Save the Children is alarmed by reports that children have been killed and displaced in the latest escalation of violence in northwestern Syria.

About 235,000 children forced from their homes by bombs, bullets and displacement orders in Gaza are at risk of disease as heavy rains flood tents and turn camps into swamps.