It added that “Nigeria is among the 12 hardest hit countries by the global food and nutrition crisis, while the other countries were Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Niger,
“An estimated 287,000 women globally died from a maternal cause, equivalent to almost 800 maternal deaths every day, and approximately one every two minutes.”
The escalation has brought the number of children casualties – killed or injured to 11,000.
UNICEF, in a statement released on Friday, stated that the figure was the highest number recorded since the Second World War.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments to take greater action to ensure schools remain safe for boys and girls.
“The world is rapidly becoming a virtual tinderbox of preventable child deaths and child suffering from wasting.”
Seventeen pregnant women and employees were injured in the bombing, said Pavlo Kyrylenko, the head of the Donetsk Oblast military administration.
