Media Releases and Stories

Empowering Mothers: Siba’s mission in Syria

Children's lives are protected by breastfeeding classes in Syria.

“The unthinkable in Gaza City has already begun”

4 September 2025

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Communication Manager for the Middle East and North Africa Regional Office, Tess Ingram, from Gaza at the UN noon briefing

Thousands of children at risk after devastating earthquake hits eastern Afghanistan

1 September 2025

Statement by UNICEF Afghanistan Representative, Dr. Tajudeen Oyewale, on the earthquake in Nangarhar and Kunar provinces

After 500 days under siege, children in Sudan’s Al Fasher face starvation, mass displacement, and deadly violence

27 August 2025

After 500 days under siege, the city of Al Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur has become an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily, UNICEF warned today.

Famine confirmed for the first time in Gaza

23 August 2025

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), UNICEF, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have collectively and consistently highlighted the extreme urgency for an immediate and full-scale humanitarian response given the escalating hunger-related deaths.

When governments step back, philanthropy steps up

A powerful article in The New York Times yesterday revealed the devastating impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts on global child malnutrition. 

Children in Sudan ‘reduced to skin and bones’ as UNICEF calls for urgent action

5 August 2025

On 3 August, the UNICEF Representative Sheldon Yett observes children receiving nutrition services and care at Mayo Mandela clinic in Jebel Awlia, Sudan.

Myanmar: Before, During & After Emergency

UNICEF's Long Term Commitment to Children

UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Ted Chaiban's remarks following his recent travel to Israel, Gaza & the West Bank

2 August 2025

Ted Chaiban, UNICEF Executive Director for Humanitarian Action and Supply Operations, speaks with members of the medical team at the malnutrition treatment point of the Friends of the Patient Society Hospital in Gaza City on 29 July 2025.

UN Agencies warn key food and nutrition indicators exceed famine thresholds in Gaza

29 July 2025

Gaza faces the severe risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Alert.

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the MENA Region, Edouard Beigbeder

25 July 2025

Statement by UNICEF Regional Director for the MENA Region, Edouard Beigbeder, on the unconscionable deaths of children by starvation in the Gaza Strip 

Learning Together, Healing Together

Hope and recovery at Survival School