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UN agency warns children in North Darfur city remain cut off from aid and protection as fighting continues to rage.

More than two billion people worldwide still lack access to safely-managed drinking water, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that progress towards universal coverage was moving nowhere near quickly enough.

Recent images of an emaciated Gazan child, Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, provoked global outrage. Some sought to minimise this harm, attributing it instead to pre-existing conditions or disability.

Unpredictable weather fuelled by the climate crisis is forcing millions from their homes, with many struggling to access water

"Scotland stands ready" to treat up to 20 children from Gaza in hospitals, the country's Health Secretary has said

Government crackdown after rape video goes viral shines light on plight of young people caught up in fallout from gang warfare and civil war

IN FOCUS: As a hunger crisis in Gaza shows no signs of abating, Bryony Gooch speaks to workers at a camp where the children ‘still have hope’

People in Gaza are struggling to secure enough water for drinking and sanitation, with experts warning that far less than the minimum needed to sustain life is reaching the territory

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

Israel has killed more than 18,000 children since the start of its genocidal war on Gaza.