Madagascar: At Least Three Children Dead and Thousands Without Homes, Schools After Cyclone Batsirai Hit Madagascar

Cyclone Batsirai, the second major storm to batter the country in just two weeks, made landfall on Saturday night with winds of 165km (103 miles) per hour causing massive… Read more »

Africa: #AfricaClimateCrisis Forces Rising Numbers of Children From Their Homes With No Way Back

Surging temperatures, rising water levels and land degradation drove an estimated record 10 million children from their homes last year with the increase in climate migration… Read more »

Africa: Nearly Half of All Stunted Children Live in Countries Most Vulnerable to Climate Change #AfricaClimateCrisis

Nearly half of all children whose growth is stunted by poor nutrition face further threats from climate change because they are growing up in countries most vulnerable to its… Read more »

Africa: UK Backs Sharing Covid-19 Vaccines Now to Prevent New Strains From Emerging

Three quarters agree pandemic will not be over until it has ended everywhere, and that people in the UK are still at risk if virus thriving elsewhere in the world Read more »

Ethiopia: Six Months Since Start of Tigray Conflict, 5,000 Children Remain Separated From Parents

Thousands of children are currently separated from their parents as the result of the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, with many living in unsafe and dire conditions in informal… Read more »

Africa: Climate Crisis - More Than 700m Children Live in High-Risk Countries

An estimated 710 million children[i] live in the 45 countries that are at the highest risk of suffering the impact of climate change, Save the Children warned today[ii]. Floods,… Read more »

Burkina Faso: 1.5 Million Children Are Facing a Nutrition Crisis

One-third of all children under five are malnourished, warns Save the Children Read more »

Mozambique: Safety of Children Must Be Front and Centre in Any Response in Cabo Delgado

Today, southern African leaders discuss measures to address terrorism in the Republic of Mozambique during the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Extraordinary Summit. Read more »

Africa: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and Save the Children Form Global Partnership to Immunise Zero-Dose and Vulnerable Children

The partnership will focus on reaching children who are currently receiving no routine vaccines and marginalised communities in line with Gavi's vision to 'leave no-one behind with… Read more »

Mozambique: Horror in Cabo Delgado - Unaccompanied Children Arrive in Pemba After Violence

Unaccompanied children have started to arrive in the coastal town of Pemba in northern Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, following last week's brutal attacks by insurgents on… Read more »

Somalia: Severe Water Shortages Leave 70% of Families Without Safe Drinking Water

Water sources in Somalia are drying up at a rapid rate as a looming drought intensifies, leaving 70 percent of families across the country without access to safe drinking water.… Read more »

Mozambique: Children As Young As 11 Brutally Murdered in Cabo Delgado As Conflict Intensifies

Children as young as 11 are being beheaded in the Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado, Save the Children said, as conflict continues to displace thousands. The agency recently… Read more »

South Sudan: Violence, Flooding and Displacement Push One Million Children in South Sudan to the Brink of Starvation

Save the Children is warning of a devastating large-scale hunger crisis among children in South Sudan, as new data shows a dramatic increase in food insecurity that has pushed one… Read more »

Sudan: Hundreds of Separated Child Refugees Arriving in Sudan At Risk of Exploitation and Abuse

Potentially hundreds of unaccompanied child refugees are arriving in Sudan from Ethiopia, having been separated from their parents. They are at serious risk of exploitation and… Read more »

Somalia: Cyclone Gati: 32,000 Children And Their Families Flee Impact Of Strongest Storm On Record

Save the Children is deeply concerned about the impact on children and their families of Cyclone Gati, the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in Somalia on record.… Read more »

East Africa: Focus On the Safety of Children Crossing From Ethiopia Into Sudan, Warns Save the Children

With thousands of people crossing the border from Ethiopia into Sudan, the safety of children must be the focus of any response, Save the Children urges. It's very easy for… Read more »

West Africa: Covid-19 Leads to 60 Percent Increase in Children Who Need Urgent Humanitarian Assistance Across West Africa

Nearly 5m children need help to survive in Nigeria, Mauritania, Niger and Chad, warns Save the Children Read more »

Africa: Over 275-Strong World Leaders' Group Warns of Tragic 'Covid Generation' - Millions of Children Hit As Education Faces $150 Billion of Cuts

"COVID-19 is a global public health crisis that has left the world facing an unprecedented education emergency." Read more »

Sudan: Violence Cuts Off Access to Health Services for 14,000 Children

"We are extremely concerned about the spike of violence in the conflict in Darfur and the closure of the two facilities, which leaves thousands of malnourished children without… Read more »

Africa: Almost 10 Million Children May Never Return to School Following COVID-19 Lockdown

Deep budget cuts to education and rising poverty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could force at least 9.7 million children out of school forever by the end of this year, with… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: End of DRC's 10th Ebola Outbreak "Proof of What Can Be Achieved When Everyone Pulls Together"

Save the Children is delighted at the announcement of end of the Ebola outbreak in north eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as revealed by the government's Health Minister… Read more »

Africa: COVID-19: Millions out of school, jeopardizing the future of children in West and Central Africa

Save the Children fears for the future of millions of children, as more than 120,000,0001 children and students are currently out of school in in West and Central Africa. Almost… Read more »

Sudan: As Africa Cases Rise, Drama Group Go On the Road With Life-Saving Messages to Halt Spread of Covid-19

"Our teams are working around the clock to ensure children and their families get the information they need to stay safe and healthy." Read more »

Africa: Urgent support needed as Covid-19 cases in Africa increase by more than 500 percent in one week, warns Save the Children

As the number of Covid - 19 cases across the African continent rose dramatically this week, health systems that serve some of the most vulnerable and marginalised children and… Read more »

Africa: Save the Children UK Accepts Sexual Misconduct Report, Apologises

Save the Children UK has accepted in full the findings of a Charity Commission report published today on its response to complaints against two former senior executives. Read more »