Africa: Child Vaccine Catch-Up Drive On Course to Hit Target Says UN

A three-year effort to immunise children who missed routine vaccinations due to the Covid-19 crisis is on course to reach the 21 million target, the United Nations has said. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Landslide At DR Congo Coltan Mine Kills More Than 200, Including Children

More than 200 people were killed on Tuesday in a landslide triggered by heavy rains at the Rubaya coltan mine in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the country's mining ministry… Read more »

Kenya: Childcare Solution Springs Up for Nairobi's Market Trader Mothers

While informal markets keep Kenya's economy going, childcare solutions for the mostly female traders are scarce. But now small daycare centres are opening at the markets, allowing… Read more »

Africa: Africa Poised to Outgrow Asia for First Time Amid Youth Boom

Africa's growth could outpace Asia's for the first time in 2026, figures from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) suggest, as the continent's population continues to rise fast. Read more »

Africa: Growing Demand for Local Products in Africa's €1bn Baby Food Market

Across Africa, a third of children under the age of five suffer from chronic malnutrition, according to Unicef, while in recent years the baby food industry has been rocked by a… Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar's Youth Revive Ancestral Rites in Search of Identity

Facing unemployment and social tensions, young people in Madagascar are returning to ancestral possession rituals and traditions tied to identity and belonging. Read more »

Senegal: Outcry in Senegal After Expired Materials Found in Nappies and Sanitary Pads

Senegal's health authorities are under pressure after expired raw materials were found at a factory producing baby nappies and sanitary towels. Conflicting statements from the… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Says All Freed After Release of 130 Abducted Catholic Schoolchildren

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 130 schoolchildren who were taken at gunpoint from a Catholic school in November. The government says that no more staff and… Read more »

Nigeria: France Offers More Support for Nigeria As 100 Abducted Schoolchildren Released

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 schoolchildren who were kidnapped at gunpoint from a Catholic school last month, as France has pledged more support for the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Gen Z Unrest Shows 'Generational Divide' Between People and Politicians

Africa's rising Gen Z movements are putting governments under pressure. Young people on the continent say they want a real place in shaping their countries' futures, yet many feel… Read more »

Africa: Call to Put Child Welfare At the Heart of Business Regulation in Africa

Plagued by child labour and other harmful industrial practices, countries in Africa have a duty to regulate business and hold companies to account for violating children's rights,… Read more »

Nigeria: 50 Pupils Kidnapped From Nigerian School Escape Captivity

Fifty of the more than 300 students kidnapped from a Nigerian Catholic school last week have escaped, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said Sunday, as Pope Leo appealed… Read more »

Africa: Introducing ZOA, a Digital News Channel By and for Young Africans

France Médias Monde - parent company to RFI and TV station France 24 - has launched a new digital news channel: ZOA. Focused on feature-style stories, the platform targets a… Read more »

Morocco: Morocco Rocked By Fourth Day of Gen Z-Led Protests Over Public Services

Youth-led protests in Morocco demanding better health care and education turned violent on Tuesday night as clashes broke out with security forces in several cities, marking the… Read more »

Madagascar: Madagascar Man Guilty of Rape and Murder of Child Sentenced to Surgical Castration

For the first time in Madagascar, a court has ruled that surgical castration be carried out on a sex offender, who raped and murdered a six-year-old girl. Read more »

Sierra Leone: 'Smoking to Survive' - How Sierra Leone's Youth Got Hooked On Kush

A cheap synthetic drug known as kush is ravaging West Africa and its epicentre is Sierra Leone. The government has declared kush a public health emergency, but poverty and trauma… Read more »