Giving antimalarial medicines to children monthly during the rainy season cut malaria deaths in children by 42%, making a case for wide implementation in malaria-endemic African ... Read more »
Just 85 kilometres south of Malawi's capital, the impact of global warming is abundantly clear, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) reports. Hunger is becoming increas Read more »
Military interventions have failed to end a violent insurgency and humanitarian crisis. The crisis has grown from armed conflict in north-east Nigeria and expanded into ... Read more »
The government's efforts to eradicate malnutrition, has seen it triple the funding it injects into the process, rising from U.S.$18 million to U.S.$56 million between 2015 and ... Read more »
Kenya's capital city, Nairobi, used to be known as the "Green City in the Sun" for its lush environment. There have been however recently been a lot of changes to Nairobi's land ... Read more »
The United Nations says that more children have been trafficked, forced to work in gold mines and to fight as soldiers in Mali this year as conflict worsened and Covid-19 shut ... Read more »
Cyclone Gati is the strongest storm to hit the Horn of Africa nation since satellite records began - bringing two years of rain in two days and wind speeds of 170km/h to ... Read more »
Spotlight has produced When Kids Go Hungry, a six-part series looking at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown on the nutritional status of children in South Africa. It ... Read more »
Three hospital staff have reportedly been arrested in a probe into the theft and sale of babies, accusing some public hospitals and care homes of colluding with organised crime. ... Read more »
Emirs have said that insecurity, poverty and illiteracy, among other challenges, were hampering the development of girl-child education in states like Borno, Zamfara, Gombe, Sokoto ... Read more »
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