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 »

South Africa's prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme has achieved remarkable successes in recent years. It has improved the health and life expectancy for pregnant ... Read more »

Traditional beliefs in society are perpetuating girl-child marriages, Zimbabwe Gender Commission Chief Executive Officer, Virginia Muwanigwa has said. This comes after a ZimStats ... Read more »

The Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States have ruled that a 2015 policy that bans pregnant girls from studying in public schools is discriminatory and ... Read more »

The family of five-year-old Michael Komape - who drowned after falling into a pit toilet at Mahlodumela Primary School in Seshego, Limpopo in 2014 - has been awarded over R1 ... Read more »

Five of the world's largest tech companies have been accused of being complicit in the death of children in Africa forced to mine cobalt, a metal used to make telephones and ... Read more »

At least 12.5% of children in Zimbabwe have a parent who has moved to a foreign country, the latest Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency survey has revealed, adding that 23.7% of ... Read more »

A landmark decision by the Makhanda High Court has found that Clauses 15 and 21 of the school Admission Policy for Ordinary Public Schools of 1998 are unconstitutional and that ... Read more »

The schools' reopening comes after the government dispatched "peace caravans" aimed at resolving the country's ongoing separatist crisis through dialogue. Read more »

Child marriage remains prevalent across the continent - mostly driven by gender inequality, poverty, patriarchal traditions and the precarious socio-economic position of women, ... Read more »