The authorities of Nepal have reported this Friday the finding alive of two people who remained trapped in a tunnel covered by the enormous avalanche recorded on August 26 in the north of the country, near the border with China, a disaster that has already claimed almost 1,300 lives, according...
The authorities of Nepal have updated this Thursday the balance of the flood recorded last week in the north of the country, near the border with China, and place the death toll at more than 1,250, while more than 4,200 people remain missing more than a week after the disaster.The...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned this Wednesday that more than 162 million children, that is, more than two-thirds of the child population in East and Southern Africa, live in areas that will be affected by the 'El Niño' phenomenon. In light of this situation, the agency has called...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) announced this Saturday the release of 13 people kidnapped last Sunday in Haiti, six minors and seven women, during the massacre carried out by an armed gang in the community of Kenscoff, an attack that left at least 47 dead and nearly fifty people...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported this Friday that a warehouse with nutritional supplies has been completely destroyed and that a water facility backed by the agency has suffered extensive damage due to the bombings launched by Israel against the Gaza Strip this week, attacks in which four...
International humanitarian organizations have already activated their emergency devices in Nepal after the severe flooding recorded in the north of the country, which has so far caused nearly 360 deaths and hundreds of missing persons, according to Nepalese authorities. To these victims are added more dead and missing in neighboring...
The United Nations has warned that the number of children killed or injured in Ukraine during the month of July reached its highest point in the last four years, in the context of the war that began after the Russian invasion in February 2022 ordered by the President of Russia,...
UNICEF has warned this Tuesday that in the Gaza Strip, "concerning" levels of chronic malnutrition are being recorded among children, a situation that translates into growth delays affecting 12.2% of children under five years old.According to the organization, the latest SMART survey reflects a low rate of acute child malnutrition,...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of the concerning proportion of children among the suspected cases of the first mpox outbreak detected in Guinea-Bissau.Although the seven confirmed infections so far correspond to adults, half of the 46 suspected cases are under 15 years old, and health authorities fear...
UNICEF has warned this Tuesday that more than 75,000 children and adolescents in Colombia have had their schooling interrupted due to the earthquake that shook the south of the country on August 10 and has caused nearly 300 deaths.According to the organization's count, more than 3,200 educational facilities have suffered...
UNICEF has urgently requested an additional 13 million euros to strengthen, over the next six months, the actions aimed at saving lives from cholera in West and Central Africa.The agency warns that cholera outbreaks are already affecting six countries in this African region and placing millions of children in a...
The deputy spokesperson for the United Nations, Farhan Haq, has assured that UNICEF "is taking the appropriate measures" regarding one of its employees who faces "serious accusations" of having carried out espionage work for Israel.Asked by journalists at the UN headquarters, Haq limited himself to confirming that "UNICEF is aware...
Pneumonia, anemia, malaria, whooping cough, HIV, and chronic malnutrition are among the most common diseases of patients arriving at the health center in San Lorenzo, one of the key locations in the Peruvian Amazon, where more than 70% of its inhabitants belong to indigenous peoples.In this city of the Loreto...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has updated the balance of children who have died due to Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip to 300 since the entry into force of the ceasefire agreed in October 2025 between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). This figure represents, on average,...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has made public this Friday that more than 2,500 children have lost their lives or have been injured in the context of the war in Iran, coinciding with the fifth month since the start of the offensive launched by the United States and Israel."As...
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have urged governments to strengthen policies supporting breastfeeding, considering it "one of the simplest and most effective" ways to care for child health and a key tool to prevent nearly 400,000 child deaths each year.In a joint statement...
The highest responsible for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as 'Hemedti', has given instructions to rethink the military strategy of his group after the Sudanese Army managed, over the weekend, to take several positions from him in the state of North Kordofan, including a key road...
At least 21 people have lost their lives and another 30 have been injured after a drone attack, supposedly carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), against a well located in the Sudanese area of Tina, in North Darfur, very close to the border with Chad, in the...
The Council of Ministers has given the green light this Tuesday to the signing and provisional application of the Headquarters Agreement between Spain and the United Nations Children's Fund, which provides for the establishment in our country of a Global Office of UNICEF.According to the references of the Council itself,...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has reported that a humanitarian warehouse located in the Kiev province was hit on July 19 during an attack by the Russian Army, which caused the destruction of "vital supplies" intended for children and families affected by the war that began in February 2022...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has issued a call to raise 98 million dollars, equivalent to about 85.2 million euros, in order to support communities affected by the earthquakes of June 24 in Venezuela, which left more than 4,900 dead and around 16,750 injured, according to the latest report.The...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has insisted this Thursday that "more energetic collective action and a faster response" are needed to curb the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which already exceeds 2,000 confirmed cases and has caused more than 750 deaths.Following a visit to the...
Up to 23.4 million additional children are at risk of falling into poverty before the end of the year due to the global economic impact of the conflict in the Middle East, UNICEF warned this Thursday. The organization has released an analysis in which, even in its most favorable scenario,...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned that some 3.7 million children under five years of age are at risk of malnutrition in Afghanistan and has called for urgent measures to prevent their wasting, a condition that can endanger their lives in the context of the severe humanitarian crisis...
At least 625 people have died from the Ebola outbreak declared in mid-May in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where the number of confirmed infections is now approaching 1,800, in a new surge in official figures.According to a statement released by the Congolese Ministry of...