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AID CUTS BROUGHT FORWARD IN HAMMER BLOW TO MILLIONS OF CHILDREN
Lisa Wise, Save the Children’s Director of Global Policy, Advocacy & Research gives our response to the impact on aid cuts as set out in the Chancellor’s Spring Statement:
GAZA: More than 100,000 children trapped in North Gaza and at risk as Israeli military operations escalate
GAZA, 20 March 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of children are trapped across northern Gaza after Israeli forces cut the area off from the rest of the Strip, with tens of thousands at imminent risk from military ground operations around Beit Lahiya town in North Gaza Governorate, Save the Children said. …
More than 400 children in eastern DRC recruited into conflict in first two months of 2025
KINSHASA, 14 March 2025 – More than 400 children in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were recruited by armed actors in January and February this year, with some as young as 14 years and some reported picked up from schools and the streets and put at immediate risk of violence, said Save the Children.
Sudan’s Zamzam refugee camp: children’s lives on the brink as medical and food supplies dry up
Save the Children is warning that it has just two days of medical supplies left in its mobile health clinics at Sudan's biggest refugee camp.
Children among thousands killed in renewed fighting in Syria
Children are feared to be among over 1,000 people killed in weekend hostilities in Syria, which has also displaced thousands of people.
From Ukraine to Afghanistan: Children left to fend for themselves as aid cuts halt programmes
More than 40 countries have been impacted across Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East by an abrupt halt to US government foreign aid that is threatening health, nutrition and education programmes for millions of children.
DRC: MORE THAN 375,000 CHILDREN IN NORTH KIVU AT RISK OF VIOLENCE AND RECRUITMENT
About 375,000 children are missing out on education and vulnerable to violence and recruitment by armed groups in the North Kivu region.
GAZA: "CHILDREN ARE OWED SO MUCH MORE THAN ANOTHER DAY OF THIS WAR"
Gaza's 1.1 million children will once again face a hellscape of bombs, bullets, starvation, and disease, compounding nearly 17 months of physical and mental harm, warned Save the Children.