Number of children displaced by Boko Haram hits 1.4 million-UNICEF

Children rescued from Boko Haram in Sambisa forest react at the Internally Displaced People's camp in Yola, NigeriaThe number of children forced to flee Boko Haram&;s insurgency in Nigeria and neighbouring countries has reached 1.4 million, the U.N. children agency UNICEF said on Friday. The militants have been waging a six-year insurrection to establish an Islamist state in the northeast of Nigeria that has killed thousands and displaced 2.1 million people, most of whom are children. "In northern Nigeria alone, nearly 1.2 million children – over half of them under 5 years old – have been forced to flee their homes.

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Millions of children’s lives saved as malaria deaths plunge: UN

A Zambian boy sits inside a mosquito net offered by the Roll Back Malaria Zambezi Expedition in Matongo villageRates of death from malaria have plunged by 60 percent in the past 15 years, meaning more than 6 million lives have been saved – the vast majority of them African children, United Nations agencies said on Thursday. In a joint World Health Organisation (WHO)-UNICEF report, experts also said that a crucial Millennium Development Goal to halt and begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by 2015 has been met "convincingly", with new cases of the parasitic mosquito-borne disease down by 37 percent since 2000. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan hailed it as "one of the great public health success stories of the past 15 years".

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