Nigeria needs to increase its efforts to reduce the under-5 mortality rate by nine times in order to meet the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2 target by 2030, according to the ...

A report issued by UNICEF investigators described horrific abuses, affecting children as young as 1 year old, in the civil ...

UNICEF said 221 children, including boys, were raped by armed men, according to records compiled by gender-based violence ...

The United Nations has released a horrific report on the situation in Sudan. The UN's child agency reveals that children as ...

Children under five, including babies, are among victims of sexual violence in the war between Sudan's army and the ...

This followed Burhan’s declaration that the UN envoy to Sudan, Volker Perthes, would no longer be tolerated in the country, a stark sign of the belligerents’ refusal to cooperate with ...

In a recorded statement, Thameen Al-Kheetan said, “Entrenched impunity is fuelling gross human rights violations and abuses in Sudan as fighting spreads to more parts of the country and involves ...

“This is a living nightmare for children, and it must end,” said Sheldon Yett, Unicef representative for Sudan. Elsewhere, RSF shelling and gunfire shook the streets this week in a famine-hit ...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a brutal three-day attack, killing 433 people in White Nile state, as its leaders arrived in Kenya to announce a parallel “peace and ...

February 18, 2025 (NAIROBI) – A coalition of political forces, armed groups, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan has postponed signing a political charter that would pave the way for a ...

Omdurman, along with Khartoum and Khartoum North (Bahri), are jointly called the tri-capital and constitute the national capital of the republic of Sudan. The Sudanese army has now reclaimed ...

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Tuesday sounded the alarm over escalating rights abuses in Sudan, warning that impunity is driving violations as fighting spreads and more armed groups become ...