When violence broke in South Sudan in December 2013, 14-year-old Tut Deng had to flee home with his mother to find safe shelter at the Tomping camp for Internally Displaced People (IDP), on the outskirts of Juba.

Nine-month-old Ayen is one of the youngest citizens in the world’s newest country, but despite his age he has lived enough hardship for a lifetime.

I’m standing in an empty room, when she runs in. A young woman with tears streaming down her face, she is struggling to carry a boy in her arms. His arms and legs are limp. When she sets him down on the bench, we see that he is convulsing and foaming at the mouth. The … Continued

One in every 10 people in South Sudan have been forced from their homes. A staggering number – and one that is rising every day. These are just some of their stories:

Garang, 12, is one of the estimated half a million children in South Sudan who have been displaced by violence. Here is his story in his own words.

Over 100 days of violence in South Sudan has left a quarter of a million children at risk of severe acute malnutrition unless urgent humanitarian supplies reach the most vulnerable citizens in the world’s youngest nation.

I’ve been in South Sudan for two weeks now as part of the UNICEF emergency surge team to support the rapidly aggravating crisis in the world’s newest country. Over one million people have now been displaced as a result of the ongoing crisis and violent conflict.

At the end of January this year UNICEF Ireland Ambassador Donncha O’Callaghan visited Kano State in Nigeria to see UNICEF’s polio vaccination programme in action.

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes, visited South Sudan last week and writes about the urgency of funding preparations for the rainy season.

In the Central African Republic, a million people have fled their homes, and around half the population is in urgent need of assistance as a result of violence during the past year. Among the most affected are children, who have suffered increasingly from malnutrition and become targets of violence.

Abu Ibrahim runs around the school playground kicking a ball with his two-year old son. It’s the first time he’s seen the little boy since his wife and four children fled the besieged city of Old Homs.

Ahida, her husband, and four of her children fled the old city of Homs during the UN monitored evacuation mission two weeks ago. While living under siege, they were forced to eat grass and other weeds to survive.