The Latest Breaking News from Unicef

The practice was banned a decade ago but authorities are struggling to clamp down on culprits.

At least 600,000 people, half of them children, have been displaced from Al Fasher and surrounding camps in Sudan in recent months, according to UNICEF figures.

"Scotland stands ready" to treat up to 20 children from Gaza in hospitals, the country's Health Secretary has said

Government crackdown after rape video goes viral shines light on plight of young people caught up in fallout from gang warfare and civil war

IN FOCUS: As a hunger crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating, Bryony Gooch speaks to workers at a camp where the children ‘still have hope’

People in Gaza are struggling to secure enough water for drinking and sanitation, with experts warning that far less than the minimum needed to sustain life is reaching the territory

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.