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February 17
Madagascar: More Than One Million Children At Risk As Record-Breaking Category 5 Storm Makes Landfall
Cyclone Freddy is expected to make landfall on Monday as a Category 5 cyclone, with wind gusts of up to 165 mph and could affect as many as two million people living in the storm… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: COP27 - A Small but Critical Step in Bringing Children's Rights to the Table and an Important Win On Loss and Damage #AfricaClimateHope
Leaders at COP27 have taken a small but critical step in securing justice for children most affected by the climate crisis, by formally recognising children as agents of change and… Read more »
October 26, 2022
Africa: Report - One in Three Children Globally Face Double Threat of High Climate Risk and Crushing Poverty #AfricaClimateCrisis
An estimated 774 million children across the world - or one third of the world's child population - are living with the dual impacts of poverty and high climate risk, according to… Read more »
February 08, 2022
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 »
October 29, 2021
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 »
October 15, 2021
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 »
May 10, 2021
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 »
May 04, 2021
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 »
April 19, 2021
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 »
April 13, 2021
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 »
April 08, 2021
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 »
March 31, 2021
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 »
March 30, 2021
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 »
March 22, 2021
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 »
March 16, 2021
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 »
December 23, 2020
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 »
December 01, 2020
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 »
November 25, 2020
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 »
November 18, 2020
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 »
October 14, 2020
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 »
August 18, 2020
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 »
July 30, 2020
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 »
July 13, 2020
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 »
June 25, 2020
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 »
April 03, 2020
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 »
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