Unicef

Partner Content

/ 16 August 2024

UNICEF and BMW Group partner up to bridge the STEM gap

Educating young people for tomorrow requires teaching them new skill sets

By Jamaine Krige

Africa

/ 9 July 2024

Drought leaves Zimbabwe’s Kapotesa dam dry, villagers struggle for survival

In the Mudzi district, cases of malnutrition have increased by 20 percent over the past three months

By Fanuel Jongwe

Partner Content

/ 14 June 2024

Addressing poor sanitation in South African schools

Access to safe sanitation is not just a matter of comfort or convenience; it is a fundamental human right

By Welcome Mandla Lishivha

Africa

/ 8 June 2024

People starve as Zimbabwe drought deepens

The country is one of several in Southern Africa experiencing chronic food shortages

By Fanuel Jongwe

Partner Content

/ 29 January 2024

Safe Parks provide essential support so children can learn

‘It’s a small step to encourage them to keep on with their schoolwork’

By Momentum

Education

/ 8 November 2023

Matric students need mental health support to handle exam stress, Sadag says

A recent poll by Unicef South Africa found that 73% of young people needed mental health support over the past year

By Umamah Bakharia

Partner Content

/ 14 July 2023

The Sweet, Salty and Fatty Violence of Malnutrition

Restricting the advertising of unhealthy foodstuffs is crucial for promoting healthier eating options

By Special Reports

National

/ 30 May 2023

South Africa joins countries grappling with cholera on the continent

Cholera was largely eliminated from industrialised countries more than a century ago, but there are still a significant number of cases each year in Africa

By Mg Reporter

Africa

/ 1 December 2022

Perishables pile up in Zim supermarkets as money dries up

People are changing their eating habits to accommodate competing needs such as rent, school fees, transport and other essentials

By Marko Phiri

Opinion

/ 14 July 2022

Four lessons from good policymaking in Africa

Instead of only focusing on what went wrong, analysing policies that have improved people’s lives helps governments NGOs in other actions

By Pranish Desai

Africa

/ 23 June 2022

African youth: Empowering the continent’s greatest asset

Education is the best way to turn young people’s potential into realised achievements

By Christine Dube

National

/ 22 May 2022

Covid-19 worsens plight of stateless migrant children in South Africa

Programmes that integrate into society are non-existent and since migration management is reactive in outlook, migrants self-select into available social networks.

By Marko Phiri

Africa

/ 17 May 2022

Africa needs a billion Covid vaccines, but supply is slowing down

Data collected by Unicef shows an alarming drop-off in shipments arriving in the continent since the start of 2022

By Adam Oxford

Africa

/ 30 December 2021

UAE donates much needed ultra-cold freezers to African nations

The Hope Consortium and Unicef partnership will boost countries’ vaccine rollout efforts

By Marcia Zali

Africa

/ 5 November 2021

DRC’s former child soldiers face tough return to civilian life

Many of the former child combatants are overwhelmed by the horrors they have witnessed in a part of the country that has been ravaged by violence for more than 25 years

By Heritier Baraka Munyampfura, Annie Thomas and Ricky Ombeni

Africa

/ 23 October 2021

Kenya’s beach boys fall into sex tourism, trafficking

In the face of their families’ poverty, young men, persuaded by the prospect of wealth or education, travel to Europe with their older female sponsors only to be trafficked for sex

By The Continent

Africa

/ 22 September 2021

Gas giant spreads misinformation on oxygen plants in Namibia

An investigation exposed how Afrox charges N$510 to refill a cylinder containing 1 400 litres of oxygen, enough to help a severely ill Covid-19 patient breathe for about two hours

By Madlen Davies and Tuyeimo Haidula

The Green Guardian

/ 4 September 2021

Children increasingly at risk from climate crisis

Children are more vulnerable than adults for a number of reasons including an increased risk of death

By Tunicia Phillips

Education

/ 28 July 2021

Schooling and Covid: A new UN report tracks adaptations in education in 142 countries

The pandemic precipitated a global experiment in education, which Unesco is keen to document and support

By Stefania Giannini

Africa

/ 27 July 2021

Children’s education in sub-Saharan Africa cannot wait

Children are being deprived not only of education, but also nutrition. Governments and the international community must secure these inalienable rights

By Marie-Pierre Poirier and Laurent Bossard

National

/ 22 June 2021

Facts and figures: Global domestic violence numbers

“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a statement released in March last year. These appalling figures are just one of the many consequences of gender-based violence and abuse, namely domestic abuse, which is defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner

By Sparknews

Education

/ 18 May 2021

Pandemic leaves 1.4bn learners worldwide behind on education

Human Rights Watch warns that learners may take years to recover from the damage caused by school closures

By Bongekile Macupe

Africa

/ 15 May 2021

International Day of Families: Fight the equity divide

Fight the equity divide so that African families have adequate food, social protection and access to technology

By Marie-Pierre Poirier and Mohamed Fall

Africa

/ 29 September 2020

Women accuse aid workers of sexual abuse during the DRC’s Ebola crisis

More than 50 women have accused Ebola aid workers from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and leading nongovernmental organisations of sexual exploitation and abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an investigation by the nonprofit news agency The New Humanitarian and the Thomson Reuters Foundation has revealed. In interviews, 51 women — many of whose […]

By Robert Flummerfelt and Nellie Peyton

Africa

/ 20 August 2020

Covid-19 puts Sierra Leone’s expectant mothers at further risk

Almost 70% of the world’s maternal deaths happen in Africa. Now there’s coronavirus — and with poor prenatal and postnatal care on the continent, expectant mothers and children under five are even more vulnerable.

By Abdul S Brima

Coronavirus

/ 9 July 2020

Covid-19 deepens Kenya’s educational divide

Children are expected to keep learning at home during the coronavirus lockdown, but a lack of resources makes this a tricky prospect for some of them

By Pierra Nyaruai

Article

/ 4 May 2020

Covid-19 and African children: The untold story

Children are less likely to contract the coronavirus than adults, but the way in which the pandemic affects them goes beyond ill health

By Itoro Akpan, Akpabio Akpabio and Utibe Effiong

Article

/ 2 May 2020

The DRC’s response to Covid-19 must be tailored to local context

Immunisation and other preventative programmes for malaria, cholera, measles and malnutrition, which kill children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, must continue

By Edouard Beigbeder