In January 2012, Gemma Parkin from the UNICEF UK Media Team travelled with The Sun newspaper to East Africa to meet women and children in some of Djibouti's urban slums and refugee camps. What's the impact of the food crisis on their family lives, and how is UNICEF's work helping them?
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In January 2012, Gemma Parkin from the UNICEF UK Media Team visited Djibouti in east Africa with The Sun newspaper to see how the country's only children's hospital is coping with the ongoing malnutrition crisis.
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A malnourished girl being checked in the health centre in Kifa town in south east Mauritania. © UNICEF/Kristin Palitza There is much talk these days of reaching the unreached. But as I drive with UNICEF colleagues through the remote Hodh Gharbi scrubland...
Dear Supporter, I am writing to ask for your support in moving the news agenda on. The story about phone hacking does matter, but there’s another, far bigger and vital story that’s going under-reported. This morning, the United Nations will...
Today we met one of the most important men working to coordinate getting our lifesaving supplies and out to vulnerable children in Somalia. Maulid Warfa is UNICEF’s Emergency Specialist. Of Ethiopian origin, he has an insatiable energy and passion...
Nimco and her three children lived in Baidoa District in southwestern Somalia until June of this year. Then, last month, having borrowed some money from relatives, they travelled by car to Galkayo, approximately 900 km away. The journey took them 15 days...
GALKAYO, SOMALIA – We leave the UNICEF compound in Galkayo on Saturday to travel to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in this area. Most of the roads are dirt and gravel tracks, and the very few concrete roads are filled with pot holes, making...
We have just arrived in Nairobi, Kenya and are on our way to the UNICEF Somalia office to meet Lars, the Senior Security Officer who will brief us for our trip. Lars is the kind of guy you’d want around when you're in serious trouble – the...
Hi, my name's Jessica Mony, and I work as the International Project Liaison for UNICEF UK. I'm currently in Somalia with Kate Vigurs, who also works for UNICEF at our London office. (That's us in the little profile picture above, with Kate on the left...
A Somali child waits with others to register for aid in the Ifo refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1005/Holt UNICEF writer Michael Klaus reports back from the refugee camps in Kenya. DADAAB, KENYA...