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, ...

The Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford recently published the World Happiness Report 2025. Finland took ...

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

A starving child on the brink of death can be brought back with a specialty peanut paste, Plumpy’Nut, costing just $1 a day.

Children raised by parents who are educated, married, not isolated and not addicted will be significantly less likely to be ...

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.

Introduction. The latest figures suggest that in 2013–2014 there were 3.7 million children living in poverty in the UK—3 in every 10 children.1 Furthermore, levels of child poverty are rising. For the ...

An analysis of child poverty by the Economic and Social Research Institute found that close to one in five children (17%) were deprived but not at risk of poverty in 2023, increasing from 12% in 2022.