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 ...

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.

The percentage of children living in severe food poverty in West and Central Africa fell from 42% to 32% over the last decade, it said, noting advances including diversified crops and performance ...

Sub-Saharan Africa carries the highest burden of children — 40 percent — living in extreme poverty, and accounts for the largest share increase in the last decade, jumping from 54.8 percent in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

But it has also recorded some progress, the report said. The percentage of children living in severe food poverty in West and Central Africa fell from 42% to 32% over the last decade, it said ...

The percentage of children living in severe food poverty in West and Central Africa fell from 42% to 32% over the last decade, it said, noting advances including diversified crops and performance ...