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NEW YORK — The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday that more than 371,500 children would be born on the first day of 2021.
“The children born today enter a world far different than even a year ago, and a New Year brings a new opportunity to reimagine it”, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said.As always, the Pacific island nation of Fiji will welcome the first baby of the new year and the United States the last one.
Over half of these global births are estimated to take place in the 10 countries of India – 59,995; China – 35,615; Nigeria – 21,439; Pakistan – 14,161; Indonesia –12,336; Ethiopia – 12,006 – US (10,312), Egypt – 9,455; Bangladesh – 9,236; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – 8,640.
In total, UNICEF estimates an 84-year...
January 02, 2021
Make 2021 ‘safer, healthier world for children’, UNICEF chief urges
January 01, 2021
UN chief commits to continued support as
peacebuilding office closes in Guinea-Bissau
December 31, 2020
UN, AU reiterate commitment to Sudan as joint mission ends
GENEVA — More than 10 million children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, northeast Nigeria, the Central Sahel, South Sudan and Yemen will suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday, warning that without urgent action, the numbers could rise further.All of these countries and regions are experiencing “dire humanitarian crises” while also grappling with intensifying food insecurity, the coronavirus pandemic and, with the exception of the Central Sahel, “a looming famine”, according to the UN agency.“For countries reeling from the consequences of conflicts, disasters and climate change, COVID-19 has turned a nutrition crisis into an imminent catastrophe,” Henrietta Fore, UNICEF executive director,...
December 30, 2020
Millions of children in crisis hotspots ‘on the brink of famine’: UNICEF
December 30, 2020
Family tragedy and the UN as ‘savior’ in Darfur
December 30, 2020
UN confirms closure of Darfur peacekeeping mission
December 30, 2020
COVID-19 threatening development gains in Cape Verde
December 30, 2020
End arrests of political opponents in Uganda: UN experts
GENEVA — Some 25,000 Eritrean refugees, sheltering in two camps in the unsettled Tigray region of Ethiopia, have received desperately needed food aid for the first time since mid-October."Families, women, men, children — even new-borns — have been cut off from supplies and essential services for many weeks, so this distribution was urgently needed," said Ann Encontre, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) Representative in Ethiopia.In coordination with federal Ethiopian authorities, a convoy of 18 trucks delivered nearly 250 metric tons of corn soya blend, grains, pulses and vegetable oil to local humanitarian partners for distribution to 13,000 Eritrean refugees in Mai Ayni camp.Another nearly 240 metric tons of food were delivered to Adi Harush refugee camp to support...
December 28, 2020
25,000 refugees in Tigray region receive urgent UN food supplies
December 27, 2020
UN chief urges peaceful, credible elections in CAR
