The bizarre killings of albinos in Burundi and Tanzania has evoked deep fear and anxiety in the two countries, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says.
Nineteen-year-old Beauty Phillips clutches her emaciated baby tightly to her chest. At seven months, Inga suffers from malnutrition.
During school hours the pupils of Claireville Primary in the port city of Durban are spared the jibes and taunts of not being South African nationals, but the welcome ends when they leave the grounds.
Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children's health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years.
The Young People in the Media (YPM), a legally registered organisation that aims to support and consolidate the efforts of young people working towards social justice, promoting the rights of the child, grassroot democracy and peace, has issued statements on the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a press release sent to the Daily Observer reveals.
The nucleus of the ruling MPLA party's youth wing (JMPLA) in Canada, over the weekend ran in Toronto city, a talk on "Angola and the history of the conquest of Independence".
The Bishop of the northern Uije Province, Dom Emílio Sumbelelo, has advised Catholic church youths, and others, to attend technical and professional academic and religious training courses to contribute to the retrieval of ethical and moral values in this society.
This year's winner of the Five Roses-Thari ya Sechaba award is Shirley Madikwe, who founded and runs the Gamodubu Child Care Trust.
WHICH CHILD IS A CITIZEN OF THE GAMBIA?
Speaking at a press conference recently, former treasurer of the Voice of the Young, Yassin Nyan said there is still a lot to be done in terms of respect for the rights of the child in the Gambia; adding that children are sexually abused (rape, incest, exploitation, sexual harassment etc),
WHEN Prof. Timothy Wangusa, the presidential adviser on literary affairs, was a little boy, he used to walk 500 metres, everyday to Nambale Pre-Primary School. Wangusa became a literature lecturer and professor at Makerere University and Mukono Christian University, respectively for over 40 years.
Churches should embrace conditions that will encourage children to love God, President Yoweri Museveni has urged. "Our children are growing up in a time of moral decadence. Therefore, the church must set conditions that will encourage them to love God," Museveni noted.
Governor of Lagos State, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has urged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members posted to the state to accept postings to various areas of primary assignment in good faith.
Deputy Youth Minister Thamsanqa Mahlangu has revealed that over 80 000 young Zimbabweans have passed through the controversial 'Border Gezi' youth service programme. Graduates from the camps have a long and notorious history of harassing, beating and torturing opposition activists.
Exactly 20 years ago, on 20 November 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which sets universal standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below the age of 18 years.
