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

Africa should be a region that has high ambitions for its children and demand that the post-2015 development agenda is one that thinks big for our children and their chances. Read the report and ...

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 ...

An estimated 87 million African children will be born into poverty each year in the 2020s, according to the report, which also says about 40% of Africans still live on less than $1.90 a day.

A U.N. children's agency report says 27% of children younger than 5, or 181 million, live in severe food poverty, many of them in Africa.

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 ...

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.

At least 500,000 Kenyan children face the threat of starvation as the worst drought to hit East Africa in decades enters its fourth year, aid agencies say, and cases of severe malnutrition are on ...

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 ...

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 ...