DAKAR - Nearly 17 percent of Niger’s children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 5 percent increase over the ...
MBABANE - Swaziland has made remarkable progress in reducing HIV transmission from infected mothers to their babies, but health activists ...
JOHANNESBURG - "Out of sight, out of mind" explains why Southern Africa has been grappling with one of the biggest ...
KAKUMA - Ahmed Mohamoud seems like a typical eight-year old boy. He is dressed in jeans and sneakers and ...
CAIRO - For seven-year-old Ahmed Yasser, it is normal to have just a crust of bread to munch on ...
GABU - Each year a minority of Koranic students, or talibés, put under the care of a religious leader who ...
NAIROBI - Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed ...
HARGESIA - Children with disabilities in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are a forgotten lot, often not factored into ...
MAIDUGURI - Campaigns to distribute Vitamin A supplements to reduce high rates of child mortality and morbidity in northern ...
As South African children look forward to a mid-year school holiday that will last longer than the usual winter ...