But when the bough breaks ...
‘Baby bins' can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.
Zim hospitals rely on charity to survive
Zimbabwe's hospitals are being forced to carry out fundraising activities to keep afloat owing to low budget disbursements from the finance ministry.
Sahel region faces renewed drought crisis
Drought has again returned to the western shoulder of Africa, bringing hunger to millions, threatening to slip the Sahel region into crisis.
From goodwill to government
Libya's National Transitional Council needs the buy-in of all citizens to succeed
Unicef: Hostility in Somalia blocking aid work
Unicef says increasing hostility toward aid agencies in war-ravaged Somalia is putting more than 850 000 children at risk.
Zimbabwe's children struggle to survive
The defunct health system and growing humanitarian crisis have had a devastating impact on children, and Unicef warns that child mortality will rise.
UN calls for release of child soldiers in DRC
The ongoing violence in the DRC has put children at particular risk of recruitment into armed groups, Unicef said on Wednesday.
Disease spreads among Pakistan quake survivors
A strong aftershock rattled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among earthquake survivors.
Aid worker shot dead in Somalia
A United Nations Children's Fund aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia on the weekend, a local UN official said on Monday.
Dozens of children kidnapped in DRC by rebels
Unicef on Monday urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by rebels from Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army.
Millions threatened by drought in Ethiopia
Shurame Ibira is six years old, and even after nine days of emergency treatment against malnutrition, still weighs less than 9kg.
Sex and the Kenyan girl
The sex industry in Kenya is on the rise, as is the prevalence of HIV/Aids. Child sex work is not uncommon along the coast.
UN: War, drought and inflation threaten Horn of Africa
A deadly cocktail of calamities -- including war, drought and rising prices -- is engulfing the Horn of Africa, the UN Children's Fund has warned.
Angola works to improve water quality
According to the United Nations Children's Fund, almost 40% of Angolans use water from an unsafe source.
Skyrocketing
HIV and Aids infection rates in much of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are on the rise, the United Nations Children's Fund warned.
Hard times force Indonesians to give up children
Financial difficulties are pushing more Indonesian families to give up their children to childcare institutions, a new report says.
Hundreds of thousands await aid in flood-hit Africa
Hundreds of thousands of people awaited desperately needed relief supplies and faced the threat of epidemics on Friday as the death toll climbed in Africa's worst floods in three decades. At least 300 have died in the flooding since heavy rains began sweeping across the continent two months ago.
