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  Haiti's Main Airport Reopens After Being Closed Due To Gang Violence

  The airport was closed following a series of incidents in November when commercial aircrafts came under gunfire from gangs near the airport

• UK vetoes UN initiative protecting school children from war

  Britain hasn’t signed the “safe school declaration” campaign, which was requested by the Unicef to protect children from war.

• Yemeni MSF hospital bombed, Saudi-led coalition denies responsibility

  A hospital in north Yemen run by the medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was destroyed late on Monday by a missile strike, MSF said, but the Saudi-led coalition denied that its planes had hit the hospital.

• War stops 13 million going to school in Middle East, North Africa: U.N.

  Conflicts across the Middle East and North Africa are preventing more than 13 million children from attending school, leaving their hopes and futures shattered, the United Nations Children's Fund said in a report issued on Thursday.

• More fighting, air strikes in Yemen, civilian death toll exceeds 550

  Fighting between Yemen's warring factions raged in southern and central parts of the country and air strikes hit Houthi militia forces in Aden on Friday, but there were no fresh moves toward dialogue.

• Iran's leader says Saudi air strikes causing genocide

  Iran's leader on Thursday condemned the military intervention by its main regional rival Saudi Arabia in Yemen as genocide, sharply escalating Tehran's rhetoric against the two-week-old campaign of air strikes.

• China adds voice to call for Yemen ceasefire

  China's foreign ministry added its support on Tuesday to calls for a ceasefire in Yemen, after Russia and the Red Cross appealed for a military pause to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians.

• Tears, chants as rebel child soldiers are freed in South Sudan

  The teenage rebel soldiers watched as their comrades handed over their assault rifles and stripped off their oversized khaki uniforms with the red, black and green South Sudan flag emblazoned on the right shoulder.

• World's children paying price for political rifts: TRFN

  Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the U.N. Security Council are harming the world's children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday.

• In rural Kenya, traditions run deeper than law on cutting girls

  Draped in animal skin and covered in white paint, four teenage girls squat over large stones in a remote western Kenyan village after being circumcised - a life-threatening custom banned in the country three years ago.

• One in 10 girls raped or sexually abused worldwide: U.N.

  One in 10 girls around the world - or about 120 million in total - have been forced to have intercourse or take part in other sexual acts, with rates higher in sub-Saharan Africa than other regions, according to the United Nations.

• Colombia cries foul over offensive cocaine use tweet by a UNICEF ambassador

  The night of Colombia's match, Nicolette Van Dam, who is also a UNICEF goodwill ambassador, tweeted an Internet meme that shows a referee spraying foam on the field. The meme also features Colombian players Falcao Garcia and James Rodriguez on their knees. snorting the spray that the referees at the tournament have been using to draw lines for free kicks just line a cocaine line.