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Aid cuts threaten Zimbabwe’s malaria gains, with cases and deaths surging – Save the Children
As of mid-April, Zimbabwe had recorded over 65,000 malaria cases in 2026, nearly double as many malaria cases compared to the same period in 2025, with 174 deaths already — nearly double the number for 2025.
Rohingya boat departures nearly double this year as aid cuts and insecurity force families out of camps
The worrying increase comes ahead of the region’s annual monsoon season, which brings heavy rains and winds, and puts refugees fleeing by boat at heightened risk of capsize on choppy seas.
Cases of measles surge in conflict zones amid vaccine misinformation and cuts to international aid
Cases of measles increased over 25% in conflict zones last year, amid attacks on health care, aid cuts, vaccine misinformation, and disruption to health systems .
OPT: West Bank children hold tenth day of peaceful protest after school blocked by Israeli settlers
Students supported by Save the Children have been blocked from entering their school by an illegal barbed-wire fence, erected by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.
More than 2.7 million children aged under five in Pakistan face acute malnutrition – Save the Children
The new analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), the world’s leading authority on hunger monitoring, further found that about 706,000 children out of the 2.7 million in 45 rural districts assessed in three provinces are predicted to suffer from severe acute malnutrition before September this year.
Giddy-up and Read: Books arrive by horseback to children in Vanuatu
In one particularly difficult delivery, 59 books written by ni-Vanuatu authors inspired by the island’s children, were packed into waterproof boxes and then travelled on horseback over boulder-strewn mountain paths, dense jungle and across rivers to reach their eager readers.
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NEWS QUOTE: Children in Lebanon have faced a 45-day nightmare – a pause in hostilities must be definitive and permanent
Response to the temporary pause in hostilities in Lebanon - almost 20 children a day have been killed and injured by Israeli forces airstrikes since 2 March, nearly 800 children injured or killed.
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