Climbing Africa's highest peak inspired Emma Demopoulos, 13, to help Tanzanians. She's set up an international mentoring ...

The daily struggle to pay often unpredictable and unregulated school fees is a crushing issue for many across sub-Saharan ...

“It is the festive season, and school holidays and makes it even a more vulnerable time for our children.” Leon Nel of Cold Cases South Africa said the motives for kidnapping children and ...

It is a crushing issue for many across sub-Saharan Africa, where the lack of a few hundred dollars can determine a child's future. The region has long had the world's highest dropout rates.

After the deaths of the six children in Johannesburg last month, South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases found traces of terbufos, a hazardous pesticide used in agriculture ...

nutrition and child development. Paul Richards is an anthropologist with experience of living and working in West Africa over several decades. He is a professor at Njala University in Sierra Leone.

A study shows that of the one in eight children in several African countries who have asthma, the vast majority are undiagnosed and therefore untreated.

It said school fees were the biggest source of financial worry for 40% of people in Uganda, where top government-funded schools now charge nearly $700 in tuition per three-month term. That's a ...

Explore the profound impact of single-parent households on child poverty in South Africa, examining the economic implications ...

It is a crushing issue for many across sub-Saharan Africa, where the lack of a few hundred dollars can determine a child's future. The region has long had the world's highest dropout rates.

Africa is home to 1.5 billion people, about 18.3 percent of the world’s population, but accounts for 69 percent of all global maternal deaths and nearly 60 percent of deaths of children under ...

Note to Editors: Please see attached soundbite by Michele Clarke MP 1 457 children died of acute malnutrition in the past two years in South Africa, the majority of which were due to severe acute ...