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News Hour: UNICEF said it needs $6.2 million to meet the urgent needs of children affected by Hurricane Maria in Dominica. The category 5 storm, which hit the Caribbean island on September 19, forced 65,000 people,...

News Hour: An ambitious new strategy to reduce deaths from cholera by 90 percent by 2030 will be launched tomorrow by the Global Task Force on Cholera Control (GTFCC), a diverse network of more than 50 UN...

News Hour: UNICEF announced today that it is planning to establish more than 1,300 new learning centers for Rohingya children who have fled Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh. UNICEF is currently running 182 learning centers in Rohingya...

News Hour: A vaccination campaign against measles, rubella, and polio is underway to immunize 150,000 Rohingya children below the age of 15 in 68 refugee settlements close to the border with Myanmar. The seven-day campaign is...

News Hour: The failure of the March-June long rains – the third consecutive poor rains since early 2016 – has helped push an additional 37,000 children across the country below the threshold of acute malnutrition. Almost...

News Hour: More than 10.5 million children live in the countries that are likely to be exposed to the damage from Hurricane Irma, UNICEF warned. Based on the storm’s current trajectory, children in the islands of...

News Hour: Half a million people in Sierra Leone will be able to access the life-saving cholera vaccine within weeks, the country’s Ministry of Health and Sanitation announced. The vaccines will be received from the Gavi-funded...

News Hour: Weeks of torrential monsoon rains and catastrophic flooding in three countries of South Asia – Nepal, India, and Bangladesh – have devastated the lives of millions of children and families. UNICEF estimates that almost...

News Hour: UNICEF with partners are scaling up the emergency response in the flood-affected northern and central parts of Bangladesh. UNICEF is also providing urgent support in Cox’s Bazar district with the recent influx of Rohingya...

News Hour: More than 180 million people do not have access to basic drinking water in countries affected by conflict, violence and instability* around the world, UNICEF warned, as World Water Week gets under way. “Children’s access to...