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Weather disasters displaced 43 million children in 6 years, UNICEF says

A woman walks with her children, who fled amid drought, to build a makeshift shelter at a camp for the displaced people on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, on Sept. 26, 2023.[VOA]

Storms, floods, fires and other extreme weather events led to more than 43 million displacements involving children between 2016 and 2021, according to a United Nations report.

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