The United Nations children’s fund says at least 45 million children are facing severe food insecurity worsened by climate change in several eastern and southern African countries. UNICEF director for eastern and southern Africa Eva Kadilli said millions of people are living through multiple and often overlapping crises. These have been inte...
Kabul, Afghanistan – – AFP Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls still remaining out of secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 following the end of decades long US [&hellip...
Schools across the U.S. are finding ways to support Muslim students who are observing the Ramadan fast. Public schools in Dearborn, Michigan, are offering other activities during lunch time. In St. Paul, Minnesota, the East African Elementary Magnet School does something similar for its Muslim students who are mostly of Somali background, offe...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan is one of several countries around the world in the grip of a food crisis, where a mix of politics, economics and nature’s ravages is taking a heavy toll on vast sections of a vulnerable population. In a country emerging from decades of war and turmoil, women and children are among […]
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP Tears in his eyes, Mohammed al-Sabbagh shouts into a mobile phone, imploring his niece on the other end to “be strong” as she languishes under rubble in Gaza. The call was made near the start of a three-day ordeal for the girl, 15-year-old Hala Hazem Hamada, who was finally rescued [&helli...
GAZA (AA) – Starving children in the besieged Gaza Strip are getting poisoned by fodder they have to eat due to food shortage caused by continuous Israeli bombing. Israel, which has been attacking Gaza from air, land and sea for about five months, does not allow water, food, medicine, fuel and electricity to be delivered […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Dozens of Palestinian children in Gaza City in the northern part of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday rallied to protest the scarcity of food and water under the Israeli siege. The children marched in the streets of Gaza City holding banners reading “bread becomes my dream” and “we want food”. ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian puppet maker Yousef al-Hindi is using his art to put the spotlight on the suffering of the people of Gaza, especially the children. He designed a Marionette, a puppet manipulated with strings, to send a message to the world on behalf of the children in Gaza. “I am trying […]
Lahore, Pakistan – AFP In a Pakistan paediatric ward, a chorus of infant coughs and straining lungs is the toll of a frigid winter, compounded by choking smog and lagging vaccination rates. “Please pray for him,” the mother of four-month-old pneumonia patient Ibrahim begs a nurse in Lahore, delicately arranging a blanket arou...
GENEVA (AA) – Nearly 20,000 babies have been born during the current war in Gaza, while 135,000 children under age 2 are at “severe risk” of malnutrition, UNICEF has said. Noting that the number equals one baby born about every 10 minutes since October 7, Tess Ingram, a UNICEF spokesperson, told a press briefing in […]
