Officials of the federal and Lagos education ministries expressed doubt on the latest global data on out-of-school children by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ... Read more »
Lihle Mbikwana grew up in Xhora Mouth in the rural Eastern Cape. As a child, his walk to school was more than an hour long, which in that area is considered short. The teachers had ... Read more »
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 400,000 children and adolescents develop cancer every year. In high-income countries, where care and services ... Read more »
The 7th South African TB Conference is under way in Durban, where the health care community is looking at the progress and challenges facing a country that has some of the highest ... Read more »
Almost 12 million people - a quarter of Sudan's population - are currently estimated to be facing acute hunger. According to aid agencies, that number could reach up to 18 million ... Read more »
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Nigeria representative Ulla Mueller who was speaking at the launch of the report on sexual and gender-based violence, harmful ... Read more »
A new Human Rights Watch report says that in nearly one-third of African countries, teenage girls who become pregnant face "significant legal and policy barriers" to continuing ... Read more »
Civil Society Organisations have said the issue of teenage pregnancy has been neglected but has continued to be a bottleneck to the country's development. Several CSOs gathered to ... Read more »
The UK has announced that it will spend £15 million (U.S.$17 million) of emergency humanitarian funding to provide vital food and nutrition assistance for ... Read more »
The ruling African National Congress is losing support as the worst power cuts in more than two years have fuelled public anger and hurt businesses, amid rising prices, poor ... Read more »
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