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The World Health Organization (WHO) said an oral cholera vaccine (OCV) campaign targeting some 487,825 people began Tuesday in Zimbabwe in the two districts most affected by Cyclone Idai. WHO

A top UN official told reporters in Geneva help is needed urgently from the international community for some 2,500 apparently stateless “foreign children” at a camp in north-east Syria. UNTV CH

Supported by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), a construction of a Child Protection office within South Sudan’s People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) headquarters is undergoing. It demonstrates the South Sudan military’s commitment to a child free army. UNMISS

Grammy-winning recording artist and UNICEF supporter Dua Lipa travelled to Lebanon recently to meet children and young people supported by UNICEF, including many uprooted by the eight-year conflict in Syria. UNICEF

The Ministry of Health in Mozambique has concluded a successful six-day emergency cholera vaccination campaign that reached more than 800,000 people in four districts affected by Cyclone Idai. WHO

An attack on a school in the Yemeni capital Sana’a over the weekend which killed 14 youngsters and critically injured 16 others has been condemned by the UN, amid reports that a child dies every 10 minutes from “preventable causes” in the war-torn country. UNTV CH

A new UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) report warned, “more than 19 million children living across Bangladesh are at risk from devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change.” UNTV CH

Devastating floods, cyclones and other environmental disasters linked to climate change are threatening the lives and futures of more than 19 million children in Bangladesh, UNICEF said today. UNICEF

UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta H. Fore visited Honduras where she interacted with children and adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18, who have been victims of violence and embarked on a migration journey. UNICEF

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that an oral cholera vaccination campaign to protect survivors of Cyclone Idai begins today in Beira, Mozambique. WHO