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      2 Billion Kids to Face Extreme Heatwave Threat by 2050, Warns UNICEF

      "The dial is being turned up on our planet and yet our world leaders haven't begun to sweat," said climate activist Vanessa Nakate. "The only option is for us to continue to turn up the heat--on them--to correct the course we are on."

      Jessica Corbett
      Oct 25, 2022

      At least 559 million children worldwide are already exposed to frequent heatwaves--a number that could hit 2.02 billion by 2050, according to a United Nations report published Tuesday.

      "The climate shocks of 2022 provided a strong wake-up call about the increasing danger hurtling towards us."

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      Children 'Dying Before Our Eyes': Aid Workers Plea for Help as Famine Unfolds in Somalia

      "Already 1.5 million children below the age of five are malnourished," said one United Nations official, "and we expect that 356,000 of these may not survive through the end of September."

      Brett Wilkins
      Jun 22, 2022

      International aid workers are issuing desperate pleas for help this week as severe climate-driven drought coupled with critically depleted global food supplies due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine are fueling a slide into "catastrophic famine" in Somalia that could claim the lives of hundreds of thousands of children by summer's end.

      "If an intervention does not happen as expected, and quickly, we will inevitably witness the mass death of children in the coming months."

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      UNICEF Warns Millions of Kids at Risk From Food Crisis Sparked by Ukraine War

      "The number of malnourished children is likely to drastically increase," said UNICEF's regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.

      Jessica Corbett
      Apr 07, 2022

      In addition to threatening the lives of millions of Ukrainians, Russia's war on Ukraine is jeopardizing "the fragile nutritional status of children in the Middle East and North Africa," a United Nations agency warned Thursday.

      "The world should not forget the millions of children in Middle East and North Africa."

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