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• Over 1.2 million Rohingya refugees remain in highly congested settlements in Cox’s Bazar, where children face overcrowding and rising insecurity. Since January 2025, 133,651 new arrivals have further strained services. Nationally, children are impacted by recurrent health emergencies, including the ongoing dengue outbreak.
• Children need urgent nutrition support to prevent acute malnutrition, timely health care to curb disease outbreaks, protection from violence and exploitation, and safe water and sanitation. Rohingya children experience severe education disruption due to funding cuts and deteriorating learning facilities.
• UNICEF reached 563,033 people (44% of the revised HAC 2025 target) with lifesaving, multisectoral services, including treatment for 907 children with severe acute malnutrition, vaccination of 87,898 infants, and WASH support to 561,000 refugees.
• UNICEF has received $93.7 million by September 2025, leaving a $50.8 million funding gap. UNICEF urgently requires US$ 10 million to sustain critical services in the camps, particularly in Education and WASH.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new solutions for communities living through instability and displacement. From Bangladesh’s ongoing political turmoil to Nigeria’s Boko Haram–related violence and Afghanistan’s post-2021 upheaval, millions continue to face barriers to basic services. The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is applying AI in crisis zones to broaden access to education, trusted information and social support. This article explores how three IRC-supported innovations, aprendIA, Signpost and ALMA (AI for Life Mapping and Assistance), show the impact of AI in crisis zones on people rebuilding their lives.

On International Volunteer Day, meet the UN Volunteers with UNICEF in CAR serving each day with a passion for making a difference.

At daybreak, United Nations Volunteer, Christine Mbuyi, reviews her files, ensuring everything is in order before setting out along the rough road that leads out of Paoua, in the north of the Central African Republic.

Today’s destination is Bodoli, a village of about 3,500 people. Although it lies only 20 kilometres from Paoua town, the journey takes more than an hour due to the road’s appalling condition. By the time Christine arrives, several hundred people are already waiting for her in the shade of large trees.

When the Israeli military conducted a raid outside Balata Boys School, teachers and students sheltered inside and turned to new techniques to help themselves stay calm.

It was meant to be a day of celebration

Inside Balata Boys School, teachers and students were preparing to honour the top-achieving learners. Parents were expected to join, and the hallways were filled with excitement.

Then, the sounds of explosions and live gunfire shattered the air.

“At first we thought it was far away,” recalls Nour Jabber, the school’s assistant principal, who has worked as an educator for 20 years. “But within minutes, it was happening just beside the school. The students were frightened. We knew we had to keep them safe and calm.”

“I am the founder of the ‘I Lead Climate Action Initiative,’ which is a Pan-African movement that carries out grassroots-based climate action to address the climate crisis in Africa. We advocate for the restoration of Lake Chad, the world’s largest environmental crisis through research and engagement,” says Adenike Titilope Oladosu.

UNICEF is delivering life-changing investments in children's futures in Mali, with funding from Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.
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Save the Children International has enrolled no fewer than 122,050 children affected by crises in Sokoto, Katsina, and Zamfara in schools.

No fewer than 122,050 children affected by crises in Sokoto, Katsina, and Zamfara have been enrolled in schools by Save the Children International through its ‘Education Cannot Wait’ project.

A total of 122,050 crisis-affected learners have been enrolled on schools and supported with literacy and numeracy programmes under the Education Cannot Wait (ECW) project implemented by Save the Children International (SCI) across Katsina, Sokoto, and Zamfara states. The project, which runs from October 2024 to February 2026, targets children between the ages of 6 [ ]

DOHA: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) organized a celebration on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN) and the organization's international day, which falls on Oct 24 annually, as part of celebrating the existing cooperation between the State of Qatar and the UN.

• The UN fund Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced $2 million to expand schooling for Sudanese refugees in Chad.
• The aid targets 27,000 new students in Wadi Fira and Ennedi Est provinces, where schools are overwhelmed.
• ECW warns that only 22% of the $69.6 million regional education appeal has been funded.

The United Nations’ global fund for education in emergencies, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), has announced an additional $2 million to support schooling for Sudanese refugees in Chad as the influx continues to strain local education systems.

(Agence Ecofin) - Face à l’afflux massif de réfugiés soudanais et à la pression croissante exercée sur les infrastructures scolaires du Tchad, il devient urgent de renforcer les dispositifs éducatifs afin d’éviter qu’une génération ne soit exclue de l’apprentissage.

Vendredi 17 octobre, Education Cannot Wait (ECW), fonds mondial des Nations unies dédié à l’éducation en situation d’urgence, a annoncé un financement additionnel de 2 millions de dollars en faveur des réfugiés soudanais au Tchad. Selon ECW, cette enveloppe vise à étendre les activités éducatives dans les provinces de Wadi Fira et Ennedi Est, où les arrivées récentes de réfugiés accentuent la pression sur les structures locales.

Distance learning offers a second chance to children whose education was disrupted by conflict

Every September, millions of children around the world return to school after weeks of holidays. New backpacks, fresh notebooks, neatly aligned desks and joyful reunions with classmates are all familiar signs of a new school year filled with promise.

In Munigi, a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), learning takes a different form. In an abandoned classroom, lessons are broadcast through a radio that plays pre-recorded classes following the national curriculum.

Teacher Juvenal Mumbere leads Level 3 pupils, equivalent to fifth and sixth grade, in this unique learning initiative.