UN calls for urgent help to combat acute child malnutrition
Geneva – The United Nations called on Thursday for urgent funding to help 30 million children suffering from acute... Read more
13 Jan, 2023
Gambian MPs target Indian pharma group over child deaths
Banjul – A Gambian parliamentary committee on Tuesday recommended that an Indian pharmaceutical company be banned and prosecuted over... Read more
21 Dec, 2022
In troubled South Africa, a boys’ choir gives cause for hope
Winterton – A hush grips the auditorium as the long-awaited concert by one of the world’s most renowned chorales... Read more
21 Dec, 2022
Egypt tycoon dies serving sentence for sexually assaulting minors
Cairo – Egyptian businessman Mohamed el-Amin has died while serving a three-year sentence for trafficking and sexually assaulting girls... Read more
19 Dec, 2022
‘No space’: German hospitals overwhelmed by sick kids
Berlin – When Debora Zilz rushed her baby son Andreas to a Berlin hospital because of a serious respiratory... Read more
15 Dec, 2022
Amnesty urges Senegal to tackle abuse in Koranic schools
Senegal – Many children in Senegal’s Koranic schools face multiple abuses as well as financial exploitation through forced begging,... Read more
13 Dec, 2022
‘Army of orphans’: The price of South Africa’s AIDS scourge
Johannesburg – At the age of 13, Ndumiso Gamede was orphaned when his parents died at the peak of... Read more
25 Nov, 2022
Jihadist-hit Mali has 150 000 children in legal limbo
Niamey – Nearly 150 000 children displaced by violence in jihadist-torn Mali have no birth certificates and could be... Read more
21 Nov, 2022
Cape Town mom appears in court after fire kills her 2 children locked in a shack
Cape Town – A 35-year-old Cape Town mother was reportedly arrested after her two children died in a shack... Read more
19 Nov, 2022
Boy, 8, killed by neighbour’s pitbull while playing at his home
Cape Town – An eight-year-old boy was reportedly mauled to death by a neighbour’s pitbull while playing alone at... Read more
13 Nov, 2022
