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In Khartoum’s Karari locality, a neighbourhood restaurant becomes a lifeline each morning. Led by longtime businesswoman Ms. Samia* and her daughter Abeer*, a community-run Emergency Response Room (ERR) kitchen provides hundreds of displaced families with daily hot meals amid Sudan’s ongoing conflict.

As 2026 begins, children face record humanitarian needs after the 2025 global aid funding crisis. Sudden foreign aid cuts exposed the fragility of the humanitarian system, forcing life-saving programmes to scale back amid rising conflict, displacement and hunger. 

In this op-ed, Inger Ashing, SCI CEO, explores how these changes have impacted children whilst also reflecting on the urgent shift towards a more local, resilient and sustainable global aid system.

Jeffrey DeMarco, Senior Technical Advisor, Protecting Children from Digital Harm, at Save the Children UK, shares five tips to help children and families to have an enjoyable and safe experience online.

As traditional funding collapses and crises escalate, businesses bring more than money; they offer innovation, scale, and new models for sustaining aid. But partnerships must be carefully governed to avoid unintended harm. This article was originally published on TRTWorld.

As policymakers across the world grapple with how to keep children safe online, a growing number are recommending age-based social media 'bans' as a tool to help keep children safe. While laudable in intent, at Save the Children, we are concerned that laws banning children’s access to online spaces – particularly if used in isolation – risk creating unintended harms, and a false sense of safety, as well as curtailing the opportunities that online environments offer to children. There are better alternatives.

Save the Children will stop seeking country-level emergency funding managed by UNOCHA from 2026 to open space for local and national actors.

Sudan is one of the world’s largest humanitarian emergencies and one of the gravest crises for children’s rights. Every day the fighting continues, another generation of children remains shut out of school. 

Yet amidst all this, there are stories of children who refuse to let go of hope. 

Vishna Shah, Director for Child Rights Advocacy and Campaign at Save the Children International, met some of these children during her recent visit to Sudan. 

This is a message from members of the Children’s Councils to world leaders to highlight one of the impacts of the conflict in Yemen on schools and education, and to stress the importance of implementing the Safe Schools Declaration, in the hope that this will lead to further action and support to protect children’s right to education.