On June 16 each year, Africa commemorates the Day of the African Child. It is a day marked by grief, pride, and an urgent call to reflection. It remembers the bravery of schoolchildren in Soweto, ...

Internally displaced children and those affected by climate emergencies also remain invisible in budget narratives Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans Every June, Africa pauses to reflect ...

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

KAKUMA, Kenya (AP) — Martin Komol sighs as he inspects his cracked, mud-walled house that is one rain away from fully collapsing. Nothing seems to last for him and 300,000 other refugees in this ...

Health-funding cuts are wreaking havoc on many African countries’ ability to gain control diseases such as cholera, according ...

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

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.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) In South Africa, 23% of children suffer from severe food poverty, consuming less than two of the recommended five food groups daily.

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 ...

“The level of deprivation, hardship, poverty in the land is just so much. It appears as if the organisers of that event underestimated it,” Adeyeye Olorunfemi, the national publicity secretary of the ...

It may shock many to learn that more than 13 million people in South Africa (roughly 25%) live below the food poverty line of R27 a day. This is how much an individual needs to get enough food to ...