The United Nations World Food Programme warns that child malnutrition rates are alarmingly high in Chad despite signs of improvement in neighbouring Niger. Read more »
A Human Rights Watch report has found that most Kenyan children with diseases such as cancer or HIV/AIDS are unable to get palliative care or pain medicines. Read more »
Efforts are underway to improve literacy in Liberia, but teachers, students and the government faced numerous challenges as the new school year began on September 1. This is a ... Read more »
Many Ghanaian children are forced to work as porters and others end up as sex workers despite strong child-protection laws. Read more »
Activists like STOP and Red Card fear that at least 100,000 women and children will fall victim to human traffickers during the World Cup in South Africa. Read more »
The Registered Trustees of Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria has dragged to an Abuja High Court on the controversy surrounding the marriage of Senator Ahmed Yerima to an ... Read more »
The marriage of a Nigerian Senator to a young Egyptian girl said to be of thirteen years of age has sparked outrage among civil society groups in the country. Read more »
The outcome of a hearing into the ANC youth leader recent furor has forced him to make a public apology to President Jacob Zuma and go to an ANC political "school" for lessons in ... Read more »
Most NGOs and UN agencies in Niger agree that in 2010 humanitarian actors are better geared to respond to the food security crisis than they were in 2005. Read more »
SA ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1995 with the terms which calls for a criminal justice system that caters for the needs of children who ... Read more »
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