Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Airtel Africa has restated its commitment to the relentless pursuit of a better future for African children through the provision of access to digital education. Dr Segun Ogunsanya, CEO of Airtel Africa plc that is a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services …
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Children from the poorest households benefit the least from national public education funding United Nations | Xinhua | Only 16 percent of public education funding goes to the poorest 20 percent of learners, while 28 percent goes to the richest 20 percent, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a report …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | Xinhua | The UN Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, on Thursday appealed for 272.3 million U.S. dollars to provide humanitarian services to 3 million people in Somalia, including 2 million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds will help it expand the delivery of essential multisectoral services, with …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have held a ground-breaking ceremony to kick off the construction of their multi-million-dollar joint office premises in Mbuya, a Kampala suburb. The UNICEF and WFP joint premises will enable the two …
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United Nations | Xinhua | The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), ahead of World AIDS Day, warned that progress in HIV prevention and treatment for children, adolescents, and pregnant women has nearly flatlined over the past three years, with many regions still not at pre-COVID-19 service coverage. Around 110,000 children and adolescents …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The British High Commission in Kampala on 12th October announced that the UK will provide £2.2m to WHO, UNICEF and WFP to support Uganda’s response to the current Ebola outbreak. This will consist of: £400,000 to the World Health Organization (WHO), to enhance case investigation …
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Juba, South Sudan | Xinhua | The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Tuesday warned of severe malnutrition in South Sudan as a result of flooding caused by the impact of climate change. Hamida Lasseko, UNICEF country representative for South Sudan said 1.4 million children are already suffering from malnutrition whereas 300,000 …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Government of Japan has donated $1.5 million, approximately 5.7 Billion Shillings to the United Nations Children’s Agency-UNICEF, to support the government improve the tracking of under-immunized and un immunized children at the community level. According to Catherine Ntabadde, the spokesperson of UNICEF, the money …
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Mogadishu, Somalia | Xinhua | The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has expressed concern about the malnutrition crisis in Somalia amid a looming famine. UNICEF Representative in Somalia Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef said disease outbreaks have spiked between January-July period, with at least 8,400 suspected cases of acute watery diarrhoea/cholera …
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WHO, UNICEF places them behind Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandan health facilities are listed among 8 countries with the lowest coverage of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services in the world, according to the latest report by the Joint Monitoring Programme of the World Health …
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