By Andrea Shalal, Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The World Bank's management has approved a plan to use some $1 billion in a frozen Afghanistan trust fund for…
By Arshad Mohammed, Jonathan Landay and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donors agreed on Friday to transfer $280 million from a frozen, trust fund to the World Food Program (WFP)…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations on Friday announced the appointment of Catherine Russell, an aide of U.S. President Joe Biden, as the next executive director of the U.N. children's…
By Arshad Mohammed and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank's board has backed transferring $280 million from a frozen trust fund to two aid agencies to help Afghanistan…
(Corrects organisation of Naikwali Shah Momim from WHO to Afghanistan's ministry of health) KABUL (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations children's agency kicked off a…
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KABUL (Reuters) - The United Nations children's agency said it was planning to set up a system to directly fund Afghan teachers, after the international community…
GENEVA (Reuters) - Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Iran-aligned Houthi group ousted…
MANILA (Reuters) - The United Nations children's agency UNICEF has urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students are still not allowed…
GENEVA (Reuters) - UNICEF is trying to reunite hundreds of Afghan children who were separated from their families and evacuated to various countries during the hurried U.S. withdrawal from the…
New York [US], August 31 (ANI): There are nearly 10 million children in Afghanistan "in desperate need of humanitarian aid", said UNICEF Afghanistan Representative, Herve Ludovic De Lys, adding that…
New York [US], August 30 (ANI/Xinhua): With the needs of Afghan children greater than ever before, the world "cannot abandon them now," a senior official with the UN Children's Fund…
Port-au-Prince [Haiti], August 18 (ANI): About 1.2 million people, including 540,000 children, have been affected by the powerful earthquake that hit Haiti on Saturday, according to United Nations Children's Fund.…