Reflections from a recent visit to South Africa, where UNICEF works to safeguard the lives and futures of children.

Help Children in Africa. Save the Children has worked in Africa for more than 60 years, across 20 countries, supporting 6.9 million children.As conflicts across the region escalate, the climate crisis ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

The End Learning Poverty for All in Africa (ELPAf) campaign was officially launched in Malawi on 20 June 2025. Malawi becomes the second country after Zambia to launch the campaign that seeks to ...

Torrential rain, severe winds and landslides have killed at least 49 people in the poverty-stricken Eastern Cape province of ...

Sometimes, the statement is even more blunt: “I don’t care about kids with AIDS in Africa.” It shocks me every time. Let’s answer the question of why you should care.

Gwarube’s speech focused on the glaring disparities in child development outcomes, revealing that only three out of 10 children in the poorest quintile are developmentally on track — compared ...

NEW YORK, June 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- As we commemorate International Day of the African Child, we honor the courage, ...

Nearly seven out of 10 children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are unable to understand a simple text by age 10, a report by the Global Coalition for Foundational Learning has said.

BUENOS AIRES/SALTA, Argentina, Oct 1 (Reuters) - In Argentina's poor barrios a food emergency is taking hold as poverty rises, with malnutrition on the increase and medics treating children for ...

In contrast, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest global rate of child labor — about 1 in 4 kids work. And the report points out there has only been a slight improvement, with the rate dropping ...