Africhild, an African research centre on children affairs at Makerere University, has released a report that reveals that hundreds of girls - some as young as ten years old - at ... Read more »
A study that suggested Kenyan teens want access to contraception led to heated reactions on social media, with many saying that telling teenagers about contraception amounted to ... Read more »
At least 18 learners and their driver died after the minibus taxi in which they were travelling collided with a truck in an area between Gauteng and Mpumalanga Provinces. Read more »
The Minister of Defence, Mansur Mohammed Dan-Ali, has said that the military is searching Boko Haram's hideouts in the Sambisa Forest. Boko Haram kidnapped 276 students from a ... Read more »
While a young population can be a positive economic factor, it can also be a political risk in an economy that doesn't create enough opportunities, writes Sosina Bezu for The ... Read more »
The Arusha-based Ilboru High School's Form Six student, Gracious Ephraim, has created a solar energy powered human robot that can walk, turn its head, speak and perform a number of ... Read more »
Some Zimbabwean girls as young as 15 have turned to sex work for survival. Shylet Moyo, a 13-year-old girl charges U.S.$10 or less in exchange for sex, reports The Standard's ... Read more »
A report by United Nations Children's Fund says not fewer than 27 children have been used as bombers by Boko Haram to attack Nigeria in first quarter of 2017. Read more »
"I am the one who should decide whether to go to the alternative or the mainstream school," said 17-year-old Sarah Bassie, an alternative school student. Read more »
The Daily Monitor writer Daniel K. Kalinaki explores why there has there been so much criticism of the First Lady since she became education minister despite her decade-long ... Read more »
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