January 30, 2012
Cote d'Ivoire: Separated Children Yet to Return Home
Hundreds of children in Côte d'Ivoire were separated from their parents when people fled their villages during post-election violence in 2011, but nine months after the… Read more »
June 09, 2011
Madagascar: Vaccination Efforts Pay Off
Tahiri and her baby daughter have joined a courtyard full of women sheltering their babies from the midday sun at a health centre in Ankareira, near Madagascar's southern tip. Read more »
October 17, 2006
Malawi: Calls for Review of Law in Wake of Madonna Adoption
Madonna's "bending of the rules" in her haste to adopt 13-month-old David Banda is sending a message to child traffickers that Malawi is open for business, a southern African child… Read more »
October 13, 2006
Malawi: Madonna Takes a New Baby Home
Pop star Madonna's act of plucking an orphaned child from Malawi to give it a better life has triggered concern and confusion, and has even conjured up images of slavery among… Read more »
May 20, 2005
South Africa: New Ways of Combating HIV/Aids Bear Fruit
One in five young South Africans is HIV positive Read more »
June 11, 2004
Botswana: Expectant Mothers Take Up Routine HIV Testing
Scores of pregnant women in Botswana's second largest commercial centre, Francistown, are embracing routine HIV testing, a study has revealed. Read more »
December 12, 2003
Africa: Irin Web Special On Child Soldiers: Too Small to Be Fighting in Anyone's War
His comrades in the transit camp run by Save the Children-UK in Bunia, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), called him 'Kadogo', which means "small" in Kiswahili. The… Read more »