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Super Typhoon Yagi – the strongest storm in the region in decades – made landfall in northern Vietnam and caused catastrophic damage. Millions of children and their families are at risk.

UNICEF today announced that it has issued an emergency tender for the procurement of mpox vaccines.

On Wednesday, several children were injured and killed in various attacks in the city of El Obeid in the state of Kordofan, Sudan.

Eight countries, including Mali, Niger, Senegal, South Sudan and Sudan, are home to children who spend more than half the year in temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius.

On average, one Palestinian child was killed in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, every two days since October 2023, a nearly two-and-a-half-fold increase from the previous nine months.

The brutal attack on the Okhmatdyt children's hospital in Ukraine horrified the entire world on Monday. Some parts of the hospital, which treated seriously ill children, are in ruins.

UNICEF and partners have pre-positioned life-saving supplies and stand ready to provide services to children and families in several countries.

According to reports, more than 400 children have been killed or injured in the Sudanese city of El Fasher in the past seven weeks. Many children are also suffering from hunger and malnutrition.

UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein received the Swissfundraising Award for the most successful campaign of 2023 today, achieving this accolade for the second time in succession.

Worldwide, the number of children involved in child labor is still 160 million.