- 26 April, 2024
Geopolitics & National SecurityUNICEF
Exclusive-World Bank proposal would shift about $1 billion from Afghan trust
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…
Donors back $280 million transfer for Afghan food, health
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)…
U.N. appoints Biden aide as next UNICEF chief
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…
Exclusive-World Bank backs using $280 million in frozen aid funds for Afghanistan
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…
WHO, UNICEF launch Afghan polio vaccine campaign with Taliban backing
(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…
UNICEF to directly fund Afghan teachers, bypassing Taliban authorities
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…
UNICEF says 10,000 children killed or maimed in Yemen since 2015
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…
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations
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…
UNICEF trying to reunite evacuated Afghan children with families
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…
Afghanistan: Nearly 10 million children in desperate need of humanitarian aid, says UNICEF
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…
Children in Afghanistan should not be abandoned: UNICEF
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…
Over half a million children affected by Haiti earthquake: UNICEF
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.…
