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

South Africa’s unemployment rate stands at 33% Research finds flaws in system to allocate social grants Appeal system rejects many of nation’s poor Unemployed job seekers ... have to skimp on food for ...

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 ...

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

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

Authorities are desperately searching for Mogamat Imaad Shamar, a one-week-old boy who was abducted from Middestad Mall in ...

Four out of every 10 children worldwide will reside in Africa by 2050, UNICEF Ghana has said. Describing this as a ...

SINGAPORE] US charity Compassion International on Thursday (Jun 26) launched in Singapore, with the aim of tackling child ...

The street children phenomenon is found in French-speaking Africa. Although different names are used to describe them, they ...

He said even children who survive may suffer long-term damage from poor nutrition. He also noted that 40 per cent of children in sub-Saharan Africa face major health deficits that impact their ...

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