Life is difficult for mothers in South Sudan since violence broke out last December.

13-year old Ahmed says he feels very sad that school did not resume at the end of August as planned

Nyayian Lul waits with her infant son at a registration centre in the town of Kiech Kon in Upper Nile State – where a joint UNICEF and WFP rapid response team have arrived with much needed life-saving humanitarian aid.

“There is nothing for us to eat, nothing.” A serious malnutrition crisis is affecting many parts of South Sudan

UNICEF’s Chief of Gaza Field Office Pernille Ironside took questions during a live Q&A session on Reddit on Wednesday.

Five-year old Zacharia Abu Taweida from Gaza, who is hearing impaired, tells UNICEF about the night he had to flee his home

“We walked for more than 20 hours with no food or water,” says Juan, a teenage girl who arrived at Nawrouz refugee camp in north-east Syria three days ago, along with eight family members. Juan is from the Yazidi minority group, many of whom are fleeing to Syria from the mountains of Sinjar in Iraq. Sinjar, … Continued

In June, violence erupted in the Iraqi city of Mosul causing half a million people to flee their homes in a matter of day, up to half of them children.

UNICEF sat down with an Ebola survivor in Guinea, one of the earlier cases in the country – Kadiatou*.

“It is so hard to live these days,” says 10-year-old Mohammed, who has taken shelter in a UN-run school in Gaza City after fleeing the family home in Shishaya. “There was shelling. My family and I hid under the staircase. We were very scared and rightly so, because our home was destroyed. Thanks to the staircase, we survived. We ran away, it was scary because the whole neighbourhood was being shelled. Now we are in this school. I feel safe here, it is a school,” he says.

As the hostilities enter their twenty-first day, the number of children dying is growing. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been reported killed so far, of whom around 230 were children – more than 10 a day. The youngest child killed was only 3 months old.

A humanitarian pause is taking place today in Gaza for five hours. UNICEF staff members are on the ground, checking primary health care clinic and hospitals to help injured children and evaluate their needs.