(UN News Centre) – Calling for “immediate care and protection” for children caught up in violence in Iraq’s war torn Mosul and other Middle East conflicts, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today warned that the lives and futures of some 27 million across the region and parts of Africa are at risk. “The worst of the violence in Mosul may be over but for too many children in Mosul and in the region, “extreme suffering continues,” said, Geert Cappelaere, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa.

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