Rwanda has made progress in reducing multidimensional poverty among children, with a decline registered across multiple wellbeing dimensions over the last seven years, according to a new report.

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 ...

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

In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...

Looking at other child labour statistics, we found that the majority (90%) of working children were Africans; above 60% were ...

Discover how the Sidewalk Steri Clinic is revolutionising pet care in South Africa's townships, providing essential veterinary services and education to improve the lives of both animals and their ...

Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their children or foreign ...

How are South Africa's harsh winter conditions exposing the vulnerabilities of the poor? Explore the devastating impact of ...

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 ...

1. Honourable Chair, it is with a great sense of responsibility and honour that I rise to table Budget Vote 19 of the Department of Social Development for the 2025/2026 fiscal year to this august ...

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 ...