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Conflict drives Eid food price surge across Middle East and wider region, leaving families struggling to cope
Food prices have surged in some of the most food-insecure countries in the Middle East and wider region due to the ongoing conflict, threatening to push the most vulnerable families further into hunger as Eid approaches.
Middle East Regional Conflict blocking lifesaving aid for nearly half a million children
The conflict in the Middle East and wider region is obstructing key delivery routes for humanitarian supplies, delaying lifesaving medical shipments for at least 410,000 children in three countries, said Save the Children, warning the global impact will only grow.
NEWS QUOTE: AFGHANISTAN - “CIVILIANS SEEKING CARE SHOULD NEVER BE CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE."
At least 400 people have been killed and 250 others injured, following an attack at a hospital facility in Afghanistan's capital of Kabul, according to the country's defacto authorities.
ABOUT 68,000 CHILDREN DISPLACED AND SCHOOLS CLOSED BY CONFLICT IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN
About 134,000 people have been affected by disruptions to Save the Children’s work, including health, nutrition, child protection and education programmes
Afghanistan: About 25,000 children living and learning in tents six months after deadly earthquake
The earthquake in eastern Afghanistan on 31 August last year was one of the deadliest to ever hit the country, killing more than 2,000 people and destroying or damaging more than 8,000 homes, forcing children and families into tents.
AFGHANISTAN: MORE THAN ONE IN THREE CHILDREN FACING CRISIS LEVELS OF HUNGER AS WINTER STARTS
Analysis of new hunger data found that just over 9 million children will face crisis or emergency levels of hunger before March 2026.
AFGHANISTAN: Children flee homes after second major earthquake in two months
The 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck in the early hours of Monday, with the epicentre in Samangan province, an hour from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Severe shaking was also felt in the capital, Kabul, with tremors reported as far away as Pakistan. The tremors caused panic and terror for children and their families, forcing them to run from their homes in provinces across northern Afghanistan where temperatures are dropping as winter sets in.
STAFF ACCOUNT: After the Afghanistan earthquake, 'we feel so much pain in our hearts'
Mujib Ur Rehman Hamdard, the head of Save the Children Afghanistan's Kunar Field Office, shares his experience of the Afghanistan earthquake and the initial response one month on from the 6.0 magnitude earthquake which devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan, including Kunar and Nangarhar provinces, on the 1st September 2025.
Nearly 1,200 children killed in Afghanistan earthquakes – more than half of all deaths
Children make up more than half of the about 2,100 confirmed deaths to date, according to new data from the UN. More than 500 girls and 650 boys lost their lives in the earthquakes, the first of which struck at night on 31 August, flattening homes in seconds
AFGHANISTAN: Midwife delivers baby under the trees as country hit by third quake in a week
Pakiza*, 25, a midwife with four years of experience at Save the Children, travelled through blocked roads and rubble to get to the earthquake affected areas, where she was quickly asked by residents asked her to help a pregnant woman who was in active labour.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Aftershocks cause terror for children in Afghanistan’s deadliest earthquake for nearly 30 years
A rolling wave of aftershocks in eastern Afghanistan is terrifying children who have lost families and homes in the country’s deadliest earthquake in nearly 30 years with the death toll rising to over 2,200.
CHILDREN IN AFGHANISTAN FACE A CRISIS WITHIN A CRISIS AS EARTHQUAKE STRIKES
As a ruthless 6.0-magnitude earthquake ripped through eastern Afghanistan this week, it flattened entire mountain villages and shattered the fragile lives of thousands, particularly children, who were already grappling with soaring humanitarian needs and funding cuts.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Thousands of children in urgent need after villages cut off as death toll rises
Thousands of children need of food, water and shelter in eastern Afghanistan as teams battle against time to rescue injured people from mountainous and remote villages destroyed by a 6.0 magnitude earthquake.
AFGHANISTAN EARTHQUAKE: Rescue teams racing to the site of a devastating earthquake with hundreds dead and thousands of children potentially impacted
Rescue teams are racing to Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan where a devastating earthquake has killed at least 600 people and injured more than 3,000 including many children
Afghanistan: One in five children facing crisis levels of hunger as funding cuts reduce food aid
About one in five children in Afghanistan could face crisis levels of hunger before October, with funding cuts reducing the amount of food aid available for families, Save the Children said
Nearly 50,000 Afghan children pushed out of Pakistan in first two weeks of April
The children form part of a surge of returnees, with 84,000 people crossing into Afghanistan in recent weeks, adding to a total of about 940,000 people – including about 545,000 children – who have now returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan since September 2023.
From Ukraine to Afghanistan: Children with severe disabilities, fleeing domestic violence left to fend for themselves as aid cuts stop cash assistance programmes – Save the Children
A 12-year-old boy with Downs Syndrome in Ukraine who has been left severely emotionally distressed by a lifetime of conflict is at risk of becoming homeless due to foreign aid cuts, Save the Children said, as the child rights organisation shared examples of the impacts on cash assistance work around the world.