DAR ES SALAAM: FORMER President and Chairperson of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Dr Jakaya Kikwete, has ...

Over half of the people living in poverty — 584 million — are children under the age of 18, with 317 million in sub-Saharan Africa and 184 million in South Asia, it said.

According to a child labour report of 2020, Africa is home to 23.9 percent of the world’s child laborers, totaling a staggering 86.6 million children. Sub-Saharan Africa has seen an increase in ...

A United States non-governmental organisation, NGO, Africa’s Children’s Fund, ACF, has called on government at all levels invest in the people, especially the children and youths, adding that it was t ...

Rwanda cut multidimensional child poverty nearly in half among 5–14-year-olds—from 25.3% to 11.9% between 2016 and 2024. • Free basic education and expanded rural school access drive this progress. • ...

I want to be a doctor so I can fix people. But my uncle says girls in our house don’t go to school for long. They get married.”These words from 9-year-old Hauwa, spoken to me during a recent visit to ...

A study in The Lancet suggests that cuts to USAID could result in the death of 14 million people over the next five years.

A child as young as 10 becoming pregnant is not a number on a spreadsheet—it is a brutal failure of our systems to protect ...

A study published Monday found that the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) could result in more ...

Deputy Minister Steve Letsike has described teenage pregnancy as a national crisis threatening South Africa’s future, calling for urgent, collective action to protect young girls and address the root ...

Child poverty continues to be one of the urgent challenges of our time, with nearly 900 million children experiencing multidimensional poverty. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) ...

Dr. Claudette Yaméogo is Burkina Faso’s only ophthalmologist who specializes in treating children. She is one of just 70 eye doctors for the West African nation's 23 million people.