Charity calls for measures to ensure access to education to protect children from forced recruitment by armed groups Nov 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One in eight of the world’s children – more than 300 million – live in conflict zones where they are at risk of becoming child soldiers, a charity warned on Tuesday, […]
SOME Maswa District residents have urged the government and other stakeholders to intensify war against child labour, a problem that seems to be common in the area. They told the ‘Daily News’ over the weekend that the children, aged between nine to 10 years are mostly hired for petty businesses at bus stands and commodities […]
Presidential taskforce on CoVID-19 has endorsed use of Pfeizer-BioNTech vaccine that covers for people as young as 12 years old and above. A statement from the taskforce’s chairperson, Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda on Sunday, stressing that this extension is only for Pfeizer-BioNTech vaccine “for the time being, until further expert advice is available and […]
As Gambians prepare to head to the polls, the youth are bitterly divided on whether President Adama Barrow should be running in the first place. On December 4, Gambian voters will head to the polls to elect a new president. The election will mark the first time voters decide since the electoral defeat of former […]
The National Youth Council (NYC) on Tuesday launched its Youth Peace Security Situation Room and Online Radio at its office in Kanifing. The platform supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) through the Peace Building Fundwillensure all security alerts are monitored across the country. It will be managed by young people (RegionalMonitors) to ensure […]
Kampala — Today, Uganda’s first edutainment book designed to inspire and empower children to speak up about the COVID-19 crisis and its effects on their day-to-day lives was released. Rehmah Kasule, a renowned Ugandan author, social innovator, gender and youth development expert, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has published, the Kids Voice book, titled: […]
Dar es Salaam — A 19-year-old rule that banned pregnant students from attending school in Tanzania is to be scrapped, a minister says. Education Minister Prof Joyce Ndalichako said on Wednesday that primary and secondary school students who drop out of school due to various reasons, including pregnancy, will now be allowed to return to […]
THE City of Bulawayo is witnessing an increase in the prevalence of HIV among women and persons of diverse, sexual orientation and gender identities. Speaking at the Fast-Track Cities signing ceremony Wednesday, Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni, revealed the prevalence of new infections in young girls and women was more than double the number of infections […]
Regulators should enforce the law The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has again shaken the table with grave statistics that children below five years old in Nigeria are dying, needlessly, of (outdoor) air pollution-related pneumonia and of household air pollution-related pneumonia. UNICEF’s staggering figures put Nigeria as having the highest number of air pollution-related child […]
<i>The group says WTP the children are kids who the society with its laws, institutions, cultures and religion, have left behind.</sub> In a bid to commemorate the <a target=”_blank” href=”https://www.un.org/en/observances/world-childrens-day”>International Children’s Day</a>, a non- profit organisation, We The People (WTP), has called on the government of Cross River State to address the issue of children […]
Doctors Without Borders has launched a new program to treat malnourished children in Katsina state, in the northwest of Nigeria, as conflict and insecurity surge in the region. We are working in collaboration with the Nigerian Ministry of Health to run a 62-bed inpatient therapeutic treatment centre (ITFC) in Katsina City, as well as five […]
Greenpop’s project aims to “bring Kirstenbosch” to schools On Friday, children from Cypress Primary School in Athlone left their classrooms to plant fynbos in the school garden. This was part of Greenpop’s “Fynbos for the Future” project where schoolchildren help to create green spaces and to build a fynbos corridor, learning about plants and the […]
The Government of Niger, through the Ministry of Public Health, Population and Social Affairs, in partnership with the Niger Traditional Leaders Association and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is organizing an international symposium on the theme, “Traditional leaders as agents of change.” Presided by His Excellency Mohamed Bazoum, President of the Republic of Niger, […]
Pneumonia claims the lives of 162, 000 Nigerian children under five annually, the Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said. The minister made the disclosure on Friday evening during a news briefing by the Federal Ministry of Health in collaboration with Save the Children International (SCI) to mark this year’s World Pneumonia Day. Quoting […]
Cape Town — Welcome to AllAfrica’s Silence The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. This is Juanita Williams and today we take closer look at what the road to peace and peacebuilding is for South Sudan, where the conflict officially ended in 2018. allAfrica’s Juanita Williams and Margaret Lowilla, programme officer at […]
Cape Town — In January 2011 the people of South Sudan voted in a referendum to secede from Sudan, putting behind them two civil wars which had consumed 39 of the 55 years of Sudanese independence. Six months later, they joyfully celebrated their independence. Ten years on, the South Sudanese are still struggling to establish […]
A Windhoek private school has maintained it does not condone bullying on any level. This follows accusations by angry parents who came out guns blazing against the management of Sunshine Private School, whom they accuse of not taking stringent action after a bullying incident involving a grade 2 pupil. The parents of the alleged bullying […]
Just how much gain is there in forcing your own child into a marriage that she’s not prepared for apart from the fact that she is still not ripe for matrimony? Even if the female being forced into marriage was of age, in this day and era, arranged marriages should not exist. People have a […]