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UNICEF calls on all parties to agree to an ‘immediate cessation of hostilities’ as the federal gov’t denies involvement.

The UN children's agency UNICEF on Saturday condemned an air strike that "hit a kindergarten" in Ethiopia's Tigray region, killing at least four people including two children. Friday's strike in the Tigray capital Mekele came days after fighting erupted on the region's southern border between government forces and rebels, ending…

When Israeli missiles started landing in Gaza in early August, shattering glass and collapsing buildings, Jouman Abdu put on headphones, covered her eyes with a blindfold and stretched on the couch.

Sudanese protester Alaa Salah became a symbol of her country's revolution after standing atop a car, dressed in white, and singing to her fellow demonstrators. Ugandan climate-justice activist Vanessa Nakate went from protesting alone at the gates of her country's parliament to demanding action from world leaders at the United…

A year ago today, Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. The economy has since collapsed, child marriage is rife and women can’t work. Oliver Marsden reports from Kabul

The Taliban took over Afghanistan exactly one year ago after Western forces retreated from the country and allowed the group to gain a foothold in the state once again

Little Amira was duped into thinking she was attending her brother's wedding ceremony.

Little did Amira know, her brother's so-called wedding was a front for her own wedding to a 70-year-old in exchange for a small dowry of cows, all arranged by her uncle

Supplies of a vaccine to prevent the deadly rotavirus infection in children have either run out in Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal and Cameroon or are close to doing so, officials close to the roll-out told Reuters, after disruptions at drugmaker GSK.