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Grammy winner and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo, shares insights on blending cultures, empowering women and youth, and her ongoing mission to bring Africa’s voice to the world.

Angélique Kidjo on music, activism, and empowering Africa’s next generation

UNICEFA conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa’s future, and breaking boundaries.

A World Health Organization (WHO) Ebola vaccination team works in Butembo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in January 2019.

WHO to support DR Congo as Ebola resurfaces in the northwest

A child runs through the debris and wreckage in downtown Benghazi, Libya.

Libya: ‘Dire and untenable’ situation for tens of thousands of children in unrelenting conflict

‘Imagine the potential of one billion children;’ UNICEF urges investment as Africa’s youth population surges

Africa children

UNICEF and partner agencies in South Sudan help reunite 5,000 children with families

A nutrition screening for children in the Dalori camp for internally displaced people, in the north-eastern city of Maiduguri in Borno State. Photo: UNICEF/ Esiebo

Children starving in parts of Nigeria held by Boko Haram, UN children’s agency warns

On 14 July 2016, UNICEF using eight tankers, delivered 100,000 litres of water to IDPs in Juba, South Sudan. Photo: UNICEF South Sudan

South Sudan: UNICEF delivers life-saving aid to civilians displaced by fighting in Juba

Barren fields due to the impact of El Niño-induced drought in the Southern African nation of Lesotho. Photo: FAO

El Niño puts more than 26 million children at risk in Eastern and Southern Africa – UNICEF

Africa El Niño

A makeshift refugee shelter beside the highway east of Diffa, Niger. Photo: UNHCR/Boubacar Bamba

Niger: UNICEF reports more than 240,000 uprooted from homes in Diffa region

Children fill their cups at a water point built by UNICEF at Kanyosha III primary school in Bujumbura, Burundi. Photo: UNICEF/Rosalie Colfs

Burundi: UNICEF concerned over arrests, school expulsion of students

A child receives a vaccination against meningitis at the community centre in Al Neem camp for Internally Displaced People in El Daein, East Darfur, Sudan. Photo: UNAMID/Albert González Farran

UNICEF calls for a joint vaccination plan in Sudan

Children and adults in the Minawao camp for Nigerian refugees in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

Boko Haram violence displaces 1.4 million children in Nigeria and beyond – UNICEF