The federal government has lamented loss of N455 billion annually to poor sanitation saying it is equivalent to 1.3 per cent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP).

Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF’s representative said, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem.

United Nations: Nearly 690 million of the world's 2.3 billion children live in areas most exposed to climate change, facing higher rates of death, poverty and disease from global warming, the UN ch

Some two million Sudanese children under five suffer from malnutrition every year, UNICEF's representative said on Sunday, urging the international community to boost funding to tackle the problem.

Poor sanitation and open defecation, which continue to be the bane of the Ghanaian society, has robbed the nation of over 4,500 of its youth through the outbreak of diarrhoea in 2014 alone.

The Chief of Field Office of the United Nations Children's Fund(UNICEF) Sokoto state, Mr.

A mobile app will soon be put to use to help the West Bengal government monitor sanitation initiatives in schools across districts.

Khartoum — The Unicef representative in Sudan warned that polio may break out in the country's conflict-affected regions.

The United Na tions has issued a dire warning to India over its abysmally high infant and maternal mortality rate.

The European Union (EU) on Monday gave Zimbabwe 89 million Euros (100 million U.S. dollars) to support the southern African country's health, agriculture and institutional governance programs.