Humanitarian Aid

Health workers prepare to treat suspected Ebola patients in Bikoro Hospital in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
UNICEF/Naftalin

Ebola outbreak puts DR Congo on an ‘epidemiological knife-edge’

23 May 2018
Africa

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains on an “epidemiological knife-edge” regarding the spread of deadly Ebola disease, despite the quick response by authorities and international partners to the threat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday.

Children attend class in a temporary tent school in Mulombela village, Kasaï region, Democratic Republic of the Congo
UNICEF/Vincent Tremeau

Children ‘are dying’ now in DRC’s Kasai from malnutrition, warns UNICEF

11 May 2018
Africa

400,000 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “are at risk of death” in the Kasais region from food shortages caused by conflict and displacement, according to a senior UN official who has just returned from the area, expressing shock at what he had witnessed.

A child sits in a classroom in Ukraine with sandbags reinforcing the window to protect against shrapnel and bullets.
© UNICEF/UN0150817/Gilbertson V

Ukraine: 200,000 children forced to learn in bullet-riddled classrooms

4 May 2018
Europe

Some 200,000 girls and boys in eastern Ukraine are commuting to schools whose classroom walls are often riddled with bullets, and playgrounds scattered with metal remnants of war.