ABUJA – As African Vaccination Week 2025 kicks off, the World Health Organization (WHO) has raised fresh concerns over the rising number of unvaccinated children in Africa, with a staggering 6.7 ...

The Africa Children’s Summit 2025 is the result of a long-standing partnership between the South African Government, through the Department of Social Development, and the Nelson Mandela Children’s ...

States urged to act urgently as resistance to critical drugs hits alarming ...

Autism diagnoses are continuing to increase in the U.S., now affecting one in 31 children, according to a new CDC report ...

In South Africa, the need for tailored ... In other communities, he said steps could be taken to support neurodiverse children. “Initiatives such as raising community awareness, providing inclusive ...

Unicef report found that 23% of South African children experience severe food poverty, eating less than two of the ...

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa. In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a ...

In Eastern and Southern Africa, over half (65 percent) of children aged 12-17 have accessed the internet in the past three months, though this figure ranges from just 25 percent in Ethiopia to a ...

We reiterate our call for the African Committee in its review of states parties to urgently prioritize the protection of children in armed conflict by strengthening monitoring and reporting ...