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

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children.

Millions of South Africans lose out on welfare grants because of a flawed application system, including an automated means ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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