ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Some 22,500 children died from air pollution in Nigeria’s most populous southwestern state of Lagos in 2021, according to environmental authorities. The figures were revealed by Dolapo Fasawe, head of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency (LASEPA), on the sidelines of the opening ceremony for the ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An 11-year-old Palestinian girl and her brother, who have been injured in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, left the territory on Wednesday for treatment in Türkiye. The trip of the Palestinian children accompanied by their parents, has been organized upon instructions from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Depriving girls of secondary education caused a loss of at least $500 million to the Afghan economy in the last 12 months, according to an analysis by the UN’s children fund. UNICEF said keeping girls out of secondary school costs Afghanistan 2.5% of its annual GDP. “If the current cohort of three […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has finally acknowledged the killing of five Palestinian children in an aerial raid during the recent three-day offensive on the Gaza Strip. Defense Ministry officials confirmed Israel’s responsibility in the tragic incident, which occurred on August 7 in a cemetery in the Jabaliya area, northern Gaza, leadi...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Around 20 years ago, Mohammad Nassar, 62, lost his son, Shadi, who was participating in resistance activities against the Israeli occupation during the second Palestinian intifada. Nassar has since been in a constant struggle to retrieve Shadi’s body from Israeli authorities. “I want to bury him with full dignity...
TAIZ, YEMEN (AA): A mortar shell fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saturday injured 11 children in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Taiz Police stated that the Houthis carried out the mortar attack on Taiz’s Zeid al-Mushki District. The statement added that the children, mostly under the age of 10, were seriously and […]
PARIS (AA) – France’s attorney general at the Court of Cassation has underlined the principle of “state obligation” to bring back all French nationals living in camps in Syria. “We have to bring all of them back,” Francois Molins told RTL radio. This came days after the government, in a major policy shift, set aside […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated follow...
GENEVA – Unless the world immediately shifts its total focus away from the war in Ukraine, there will be an explosion of child deaths in the Horn of Africa, a UN official has warned, urging the international community to act immediately. Rania Dagash, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, spoke at a […...
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has called for providing international protection to Palestinian children against Israeli violations. “Israel is practicing all types of crimes against Palestinian children, including killing, abduction, assassination, siege and house arrest,” Hamas said in a statement marking the Inter...
