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LATEST NEWS
Burundi: Number of children facing malnutrition doubles to one in four as country battles worsening Mpox outbreak
Around 484,000 children are expected to suffer malnutrition in coming months, a figure that has more than doubled since 2022.
Gaza: Heavy rains flood camps raising risk of disease for 235,000 children
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.
Haiti: Escalating gang violence forces over 21,000 more children from their homes in 2 weeks
Violence in Haiti forces over 21,000 more children from their homes since November 11.
SUDAN: First humanitarian cargo flight with essential medical supplies for children lands in Blue Nile state after 19 months of conflict
The planeload of medical supplies and medicines including antibiotics such as amoxicillin, which is used to treat bacterial infections such as pneumonia, landed at Damazine Airport on 25 November.
NEWS QUOTE from Lebanon: Save the Children welcomes ceasefire announcement but concerned by continued violence in Lebanon
Save the Children welcomes the ceasefire but said that the violence must stop immediately.
Northern Gaza: 130,000 children under 10 deprived of food and medicine during 50 days of siege
Children living in North Gaza and Gaza governates have been almost completely cut off from supplies of food, water, and medicine since 6 October 2024 when Israeli forces declared the area to be a closed military zone.
COP29: NEW FINANCE GOAL FAILS CHILDREN, THEIR FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES ON THE FRONTLINE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS
The new climate finance goal agreed upon at COP29 fails children, their families and communities on the frontline of the climate crisis, Save the Children said as negotiations in Baku draw to a close.
COP29 draft text: Save the Children "outraged by the extremely low finance figure"
Save the Children is outraged by the extremely low climate finance figure in the new draft text
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