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Farisa, who has relapsed into malnutrition, plays on a mat inside her house in Kware Sokoto, northwestern Nigeria, Wednesday, July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian children pay the price for the Iran war as malnutrition and poverty surge

Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East.
 
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Nurto Madey, a mother displaced by drought, holds her daughter inside her makeshift hut at Ladan internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Dolow, southern Somalia, Wednesday, March 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohamed Sheikh Nor)

UNICEF says Iran war means more children will suffer in Somalia

 
U.N peacekeepers guard a house hit by a drone strike in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Drone strike kills UN aid worker in the eastern Congo city of Goma

 
Youths show the paint on their palms after leaving their hand prints on a sheet during an event marking Red Hand Day, also known as the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers, in Bogota, Colombia, where illegal armed groups recruit children, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Child recruitment by armed groups in Colombia quadruples in last 5 years, says UNICEF

 
A child sleeps at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

UNICEF warns that child recruitment by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year

 

As war roils in Iran, health workers in Nigeria says more children are relapsing into malnutrition

Health workers in northern Nigeria say more children are relapsing into malnutrition and cite knock-on effects from the war in the Middle East. The region is already under pressure from an insurgency crisis. The conflict in the Middle East has worsened food security for millions, especially children. UNICEF warns that if the war continues, millions more children could fall into poverty. (AP video shot by: Dan Ikpoyi)

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A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with family after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, receives treatment at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abaker)

Hundreds of children separated from families while fleeing violence in Sudan’s west Darfur

 
Palestinian students attend class inside a tent set up on the beach in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Most of Gaza’s schools are destroyed and hundreds of thousands of children cannot go back to class

 
Children look at students attending school at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Patrice Noel)

UNICEF warns that number of children in Haiti displaced by violence has nearly doubled

 
A man inspects the damage at the National Museum, following the Israeli airstrikes on Wednesday in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

UNICEF official is released in Yemen and returns home to Jordan, officials say

 
A man watches the news on TV, displaying footage of Ahmed al-Rahawi, the prime minister of the Houthi-controlled government, who was killed, along with others, in Thursday's Israeli strikes on the capital, in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Iran-backed Houthis raid UN offices in Yemen and detain at least 11 employees

 

Besieged city in Sudan has become ‘an epicentre of child suffering,’ UNICEF warns

 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

An attack on an aid convoy in Sudan’s Darfur region kills 5, UN says

 
Women and children eat Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 in a Goma, eastern Congo school where they found shelter after their soldier husbands and fathers were sent to Rumangabo for mixing and integration into the M23 rebel forces. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Thousands of children have been raped and sexually abused in eastern Congo, UNICEF says

 
Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls’ education as new school year begins in Afghanistan

 
In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victim rests on a mattress at a UNICEF office in Sudan, Dec. 2, 2024. According to UNICEF, the girl and her 19- year- old sister, were kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers for four months, before they escaped and later learned they were both pregnant.(Tess Ingram/UNICEF via AP)

UN: Sudan war is world’s worst humanitarian crisis: 30 million need aid, 16 million of them kids

 
A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Mary Conlon, File)

Measles cases in Europe and Central Asia doubled last year to the highest reported level since 1997

 
Boxer Tyson Fury speaks during a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 ahead of the WBA, WBO, and WBC heavyweight title bout between Britain's Tyson Fury and Ukraine's Oleksandr Usyk. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Tyson Fury and Wayne Rooney to lead England squad at Soccer Aid 2025

 
In this photograph released by UNICEF, a 16-year rape victim rests on a mattress at a UNICEF office in Sudan, Dec. 2, 2024. According to UNICEF, the girl and her 19- year- old sister, were kidnapped, beaten and raped by soldiers for four months, before they escaped and later learned they were both pregnant.(Tess Ingram/UNICEF via AP)

More than 200 children were raped in Sudan since the beginning of 2024, UN children’s agency says

 
People who were displaced by the fighting between M23 rebels and government soldiers prepare to leave their camp following an instruction by M23 rebels in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)

Armed fighters have raped scores of children in eastern Congo, UNICEF says

 
TikTok star Khaby Lame poses for a photograph after being named UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Friday, Jan. 31, 2025 in Dakar, Senegal. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

World’s most popular TikTok personality Khaby Lame joins UNICEF as goodwill ambassador

 
A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, after Cyclone Chido. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)

Nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of extreme weather, UNICEF says

 

UNICEF urges nations to prioritize safety of migrant children after parents are lost in shipwrecks

 
Residents flee their homes to escape gang violence in the Nazon neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

The number of children recruited by gangs in Haiti soars by 70%, UNICEF says

 
This photo taken in Sept. 2007 shows a 20-year-old Lionel Messi, who had embarked on his legendary Barcelona career just over four years prior, helping to bathe Lamine Yamal, who was merely six months old at the time with Yamal's mother Sheila Ebana, during a photo session in the dressing room of the Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain. Lamine Yamal is now a soccer sensation for both Spain and Barcelona and he is still only 16-years-old. (AP Photo/Joan Monfort)

Photo of a young Lionel Messi with Lamine Yamal as a baby resurfaces after almost 17 years

 
FILE - A doctor checks a child, who is suffering from gastroenteritis due to hot weather, at a hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan, on May 23, 2024. A new study by the United Nations children’s agency released on Friday May 31, 2024 says developing resilient energy systems to power health facilities in Pakistan could avert over 175,000 deaths by 2030. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih, File)

Improving energy resilience in Pakistan could avert 175,000 deaths by 2030, UNICEF says

 
FILE - Haiti's then Prime Minister Garry Conille speaks with journalists after a press conference in Port-au-Prince, Oct. 6, 2011. Conille was named Haiti’s new prime minister, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery, File)

Haiti’s new prime minister vows to seek unity after he is selected by transitional council

 
FILE - The UNICEF logo is seen at the German UNICEF headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 5, 2008. Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday, March 8, 2024, by the United Nations children's agency. (AP Photo/Hermann J. Knippertz, File)

UNICEF: 230 million females are circumcised globally, 30 million more than in 2016

 
FILE- An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, on Oct. 11, 2023. Almost 100,000 children direly need support three months after earthquakes devastated western Afghanistan, the U.N. children’s agency said Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Almost 100,000 Afghan children are in dire need of support, 3 months after earthquakes, UNICEF says

 

A record numbers of children are on the move through Latin America and the Caribbean, UNICEF says

 
FILE - People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. A leading human rights group called Friday Aug.4, 2023 on the United States and the United Nations to impose further sanctions on the Sudanese individuals "responsible for the atrocities" in Darfur, as evidence of scorched-earth attacks mount. The northeast African country plunged into chaos in April when monthslong tensions between the military, led by Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting in the capital of Khartoum, and elsewhere. (AP Photo, File)

Fighting has plunged Sudan into a humanitarian catastrophe, senior UN officials say

 
FILE - A teacher leads a class of girls on the first day of the school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, March 25, 2023. UNICEF said Thursday, June 8, 2023, it is deeply concerned by reports of the Taliban pushing out international organizations from Afghanistan's education sector and ordering them to hand over their activities to local nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

UNICEF concerned by Taliban move to bar international groups from Afghan education sector

 
In this May 12, 2019, photo, farmers replant rice seedlings in a field in Chongsan-ri, North Korea. South Korea vowed Monday, May 20, 2019, to move quickly on its plans to provide $8 million worth of humanitarian aid to North Korea while it also considers sending food to the country that says it's suffering its worst drought in decades. (AP Photo/Cha Song Ho, File)

South Korea vows to send aid to North quickly, may send food

 

Europe remains New Year’s goal for young migrants in Serbia

 

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