washington — At least 54 people have lost their lives to cholera in Somalia in recent months. Nine of those deaths occurred within the past week, marking the highest weekly death toll this year, humanitarian group Save the Children said. In an interview with VOA Somali, Mohamed Abdulkadir, acting operations director for Save the Children … Read more
According to a Save the Children report, Palestinian children are seven times more likely to die from blast injuries than adults in Gaza. On average, more than 10 children have lost one or both of their legs each day since Israel launched its bombardment of the besieged enclave on October 7. The children’s charity also … Read more
More than 17,000 Palestinian children have been left unaccompanied or separated from their parents in the Gaza Strip, the children’s arm of the United Nations has estimated. UNICEF (the Convention on the Rights of the Child) also reported that almost all of the children in the besieged enclave are in need of urgent mental health … Read more
