According to the estimate, 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2022, a 51 percent decrease since 2000 and a 62 per cent drop since 1990, according to the report, which still warned such progress is "precarious" and unequal.
"There is a lot of good news, and the major one is that we have come to a historic level of under-five mortality, which… reached under 5 million for the first time, so it is 4.9 million per year," Helga Fogstad, director of health at the UN children's agency UNICEF, told AFP.
Tshwane Emergency Services said the fire occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning when six homes at the Itireleng informal settlement burnt to the ground.
Milwaukee Police Department said a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed in a car on Monday night. Family said the two people with him were family members.