Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity

:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism

:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’

:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »

 

Tag Archives: UNICEF

Saudi king, WHO chief discuss ways to enhance cooperation

:: King Salman received Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Sunday. The meeting reviewed ways to increase cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the WHO. Recently, in response

UNICEF: At least 1,000 children killed across Syria this year

:: At least 1,000 children have been killed across Syria so far this year, said Christophe Boulierac of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). He said that living underground has become the norm in the besieged rebel-held enclave of eastern

One in four Iraqi children in poverty after war on ISIS

:: One in four Iraqi children are in poverty and four million are in need of assistance as a result of the country’s war with ISIS militants, the United Nation’s children agency said on Sunday. The UN has verified 150

Yemen’s cholera death toll rises to 1,500: WHO

:: The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative in Yemen, said on Saturday, and appealed for more help to put an end to the epidemic.

Beyoncé joins forces with UNICEF for children’s water project

:: Pop icon Beyonce is throwing her superstar power behind a new effort to bring safe, clean water to children in Burundi in a partnership with UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Friday. Plans call for the project,

Strapped UN health agency spends big on travel

:: The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel – far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis or malaria, according to internal

Actress Priyanka Chopra dismayed by child sexual abuse in Zimbabwe

:: Actress Priyanka Chopra says she is dismayed by the level of sexual violence against children in Zimbabwe. She says government officials there told her many young girls are “asking for it.” Chopra spoke Saturday after visiting the southern African

2 billion children breathe toxic air worldwide, UNICEF says

As Indians awoke Monday to smoke-filled skies from a weekend of festival fireworks, New Delhi’s worst season for air pollution began – with dire consequences. A new report from UNICEF says about a third of the 2 billion children in

Saudi forces respond to militias’ violations of ceasefire

Saudi artillery forces destroyed a number of vehicles for militias that were trying to sneak into Saudi borders opposite of al-Mawsam front. A missile fired by Houthi militias in Yemen fell in the Samtah province in Jazan, and its shrapnel

Cholera outbreak hits war-torn Yemen: UNICEF

War-torn Yemen is suffering from a cholera outbreak, the UN’s children agency said Friday, posing a further threat to infants in the impoverished nation. “This outbreak adds to the misery of millions of children in Yemen,” UNICEF Yemen representative Julien

UNICEF ‘deeply concerned’ about U.S. citizen jailed in Iran

The United Nations Children’s Fund said on Thursday it is worried about the health and well-being of one of its former officials, an elderly man jailed in Iran for more than a week. Baquer Namazi, whose son Siamak has been

U.N. urges regular aid access to Yemen’s Taez

The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Yemen called Saturday for regular humanitarian access to parts of the battleground city of Taez that are besieged by Iran-backed militias. Jamie McGoldrick said he saw some food, cooking gas and other commodities being brought

Boko Haram violence forces 2,000 schools to close down: UNICEF

Angelique Kidjo

The Boko Haram insurgency has kept more than one million children out of school, the UN children’s agency reported on Tuesday, highlighting fears that a lack of education will fuel further radicalism in and around Nigeria. Over 2,000 schools are

Aid delivered to rebel-held area of Syrian city: Governor

Humanitarian aid deliveries to a rebel-held district of the central Syrian city of Homs has begun under a deal with insurgents, the provincial governor told AFP on Saturday. The agreement reached on Tuesday will see the city once dubbed “the

U.N. condemns strike behind Aleppo’s water cut

An air strike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people, and although pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the head of U.N. agency UNICEF in Syria

Nearly 2 million children in Sudan malnourished: UNICEF

Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said on Sunday, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem. Of those two million, nearly 550,000 children have life-threatening severe acute malnutrition,

Gum and roses: Syrian refugee children in sales, not schools

Rula has not had a three-month holiday from school, because she has not attended school for the last three years. With her broken shoes and dirty clothes, she begs for money on the streets of Beirut. Occasionally, she sells chewing

Children are at school to learn, not get beaten

Yara al-Wazir

By : Yara al-Wazir It emerged this week that Egyptian child Bibawi Farajallah was beaten by his teacher after asking another pupil to move his head so he could see the blackboard that the teacher was writing on. The teacher

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