{"id":145721,"date":"2025-12-11T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/unicef-warns-children-face-extreme-humanitarian-needs"},"modified":"2025-12-11T09:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:31:25","slug":"unicef-warns-children-face-extreme-humanitarian-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/unicef-warns-children-face-extreme-humanitarian-needs","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF Warns Children Face Extreme Humanitarian Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong> <\/span>The UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday warned that surging conflicts, rising hunger, global funding cuts and collapsing basic services have pushed humanitarian needs for children to &#8220;extreme levels worldwide,&#8221; as it launched its Humanitarian Action for Children 2026 appeal.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF said $7.66 billion is urgently required to provide life-saving assistance to 73 million children in 133 countries and territories next year, including 37 million girls and more than 9 million children with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across every region, children caught in emergencies are facing overlapping crises that are growing in scale and complexity,&#8221; said a statement, noting that escalating conflicts are driving mass displacement, exposing children to record-high grave violations and leaving schools and hospitals under attack.<\/p>\n<p>Stressing the scale of the crisis, UNICEF chief Catherine Russell said, &#8220;Around the world, children caught in conflict, disaster, displacement and economic turmoil continue to face extraordinary challenges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Their lives are being shaped by forces far beyond their control: violence, the threat of famine, intensifying climate shocks, and the widespread collapse of essential services,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the global humanitarian funding environment deteriorated sharply in 2025, UNICEF stated that a 72% funding gap in nutrition programs led to reduced targets in 20 priority countries, while a $745 million shortfall in education has left millions at risk of losing access to learning and protection.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Across our operations, frontline teams are being forced into impossible decisions: focusing limited supplies and services on children in some places over others, decreasing the frequency of services children receive, or scaling back interventions that children depend on to survive,&#8221; Russell said, adding that &#8220;severe funding shortfalls are placing UNICEF\u2019s life-saving programs under immense strain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF warned that more than 200 million children will require humanitarian assistance in 2026 and called on governments and donors to increase flexible, multi-year funding and remove barriers to humanitarian access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Tanzania<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. 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