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2018 was the deadliest year for children in Syria: UNICEF

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been killed or displaced in the conflict, mainly by regime airstrikes targeting opposition-held areas.

Following talks in Stockholm, can promises help Yemen live in peace?

Three months ago, UN Chief Antonio Guterres announced a series of breakthroughs, which are apparently yet to come into effect as a new UNICEF report says at least eight children are still killed or injured in Yemen every day.

Turkish centre gives children a new start

A centre in Turkey's capital is looking to provide refugee children with the tools they need to build a new life.

UNICEF says Nigeria has one of world’s highest infant mortality rate

Around 103 babies out of 1,000 live births die in Nigeria's Masaka town.

Rukban camp: A graveyard of children

Sandwiched between Syria and Jordan, eight children died at the refugee camp in the last month alone, as a result of both the Assad regime and Jordanian government sealing the border, blocking medical and food supplies.

UNICEF: Pakistan has the worst infant mortality rate in the world

Pakistan spends less than one percent of its GDP on health and experts say that's kept the high infant mortality rate from improving.

Pentecostal pastors continue to brand children as witches in Nigeria

Several thousand children in this region have been declared witches who are 'possessed by evil spirits' but the government is unable to curb the practice, fearing a political backlash.

Children continue to suffer from five years of fighting in CAR – UN

A new UN report indicates that thousands of children, mostly boys, have been recruited by the armed groups and thousands of more, most of them girls, are sexually exploited and abused during the five years of fighting in Central African Republic.

UNICEF warns against Yemen's economic crisis and violence

UNICEF warns that the number of 18.5 million people who are unsure of where their next meal is coming from may soon dramatically increase.

Yemen war a 'living hell' for children: UNICEF

More than 11 million children face threat of food shortages, disease, displacement and acute lack of access to basic social services.

Syrian children healing from trauma of war through judo in Turkey

In Turkey's border town of Kilis, a judo tournament bring some joy into the life of refugee children who are coping with severe hardships.

Ten months on, the babies of Rohingya rape survivors arrive

The use of rape by Myanmar's armed forces has been sweeping and methodical, although the military has denied its soldiers raped any Rohingya women. Now, the babies conceived during those assaults have been born.