President Muhammadu Buhari has pledged the commitment of his government to secure the freedom of all children and other victims of abduction by terrorists in Nigeria. Buhari made ... Read more »
The Minister for Gender and Culture Peace Mutuuzo has warned school matrons against initiating young girls into genital elongation, a practice she says does not add value to their ... Read more »
The Associated Press news agency's removal of Vanessa Nakate from a photograph taken with Greta Thunberg, Loukina Tille, Luisa Neubauer and Isabelle Axelsson in Davos did not just ... Read more »
Zimbabwe ruling party's Zanu-PF youth leaders have said that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Kuda Tagwirei is "the most corrupt person in the country" for his alleged ... Read more »
Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority has been nominated for "bringing cleaner buses to the streets of Kigali", while Ampersand is being credited with introducing "electric ... Read more »
The African Development Bank's 2020 African Economic Outlook notes that for many of the continent's countries, student expenditure is among the lowest in the world. As a result, ... Read more »
UNICEF has said that boosting efforts to fight pneumonia could avert nearly 9 million child deaths from this and other illnesses in Africa. This comes as nine leading health and ... Read more »
Hundreds of children in the Sahel were killed, wounded or forcibly separated from their parents in 2019, a UNICEF report says. Conflict continues to be rife in the semi-arid Read more »
A Human Rights Watch report that documents the detention of street children for periods of up to six months at Gikondo Transit Center, in Kigali, has been released. It says that ... Read more »
Malawi has opened the first African Drone and Data Academy, with support from the United Nations Children's Fund. The academy aims to improve drone technology skills across ... Read more »
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