Press Releases
Fast facts: Ebola outbreak toll on children six months into the outbreak and response – UNICEF
NEW YORK (November 13, 2026) – Six months into the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), significant progress has been made in expanding and strengthening the response. But...
Conflict and disease outbreaks deepen DR Congo’s hunger crisis as record numbers are projected to face acute food insecurity
NEW YORK (November 13, 2026) – Severe hunger is expected to deepen in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with a record 30.3 million people projected to face Crisis levels of acute food...
WTA Foundation and UNICEF Rally Tennis Fans for Women’s Health at the FAGE WTA Finals Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, CA/NEW YORK, NY (November 11, 2026 ) — As the FAGE WTA Finals continue at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden, the WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund, in support of UNICEF, is...
Drones and drought in Sudan: a combined assault on children like nothing seen before
NEW YORK/GENEVA (November 10, 2026) - “Drones and drought are closing in on Sudan’s children from both sides. It is an assault unlike anything we have seen in Sudan’s history. “In the last week of...
Three children killed as heavy rains batter displaced families in Gaza – UNICEF
NEW YORK (November 9, 2026) – Three children aged four, five and eight were killed along with their mother over the weekend when a sand dune collapsed onto their tent in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza...
Reported attacks damaging water systems in conflict triple as children lose access to safe water - UNICEF
NEW YORK (November 5, 2026) – Reported attacks that damaged or destroyed water and sanitation systems in conflict rose threefold between 2021 and 2025, heightening children’s risk to disease outbreaks...
Increased attacks disrupt children's education as air-raid alarms affect nearly two-thirds of school days in Ukraine
NEW YORK (November 3, 2026) - Children across Ukraine are facing growing disruptions to their education as air-raid alarms continue to interrupt the school day amid ongoing escalating attacks. The...
'A trip to the market should never cost a child their life'
NEW YORK (October 29, 2026) – “At least five children, aged between seven and 14, including three boys and two girls, were reported killed and two other children injured in an armed drone attack on a...
Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Edouard Beigbeder, on the ongoing killings of children across the Gaza Strip
NEW YORK (October 23, 2026) – “Fourteen-year-old Mohamed was walking home from a UNICEF-supported learning centre on 17 October in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip when he was reported hit in the...
Gavi and UNICEF secure lower malaria vaccine price, saving $50 million for childhood immunization programs
COPENHAGEN/GENEVA/NEW YORK (October 22, 2026) – An agreement announced today will cut the price of the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine by approximately 40 percent. The deal, executed by UNICEF and...