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
Autumn matric camps cancelled as the actions of some provinces accused of being ‘tantamount to treason’ for wanting to keep them open
By using our urine and faeces as resources rather than waste, we can save our most precious resource – water
The government, private sector and civil society need to work together to address the causes of unhealthy eating in all its forms
This silent killer stalks expecting mothers around the world and is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in South Africa
From the Ganges River to Ghana, drones are delivering vaccines, HIV tests and blood transfusions and cutting waiting times for life-saving healthcare
‘Baby bins’ can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.
Zimbabwe’s hospitals are being forced to carry out fundraising activities to keep afloat owing to low budget disbursements from the finance ministry.
Libya’s National Transitional Council needs the buy-in of all citizens to succeed
Unicef says increasing hostility toward aid agencies in war-ravaged Somalia is putting more than 850 000 children at risk.
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/ 21 January 2009
The defunct health system and growing humanitarian crisis have had a devastating impact on children, and Unicef warns that child mortality will rise.
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/ 31 December 2008
The ongoing violence in the DRC has put children at particular risk of recruitment into armed groups, Unicef said on Wednesday.
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/ 1 November 2008
A strong aftershock rattled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, as aid agencies warned that disease had begun to spread among earthquake survivors.
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/ 20 October 2008
A United Nations Children’s Fund aid worker was shot dead in southern Somalia on the weekend, a local UN official said on Monday.
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/ 22 September 2008
Unicef on Monday urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by rebels from Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army.
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/ 1 September 2008
Shurame Ibira is six years old, and even after nine days of emergency treatment against malnutrition, still weighs less than 9kg.
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.
A deadly cocktail of calamities — including war, drought and rising prices — is engulfing the Horn of Africa, the UN Children’s Fund has warned.
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, almost 40% of Angolans use water from an unsafe source.
Financial difficulties are pushing more Indonesian families to give up their children to childcare institutions, a new report says.
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/ 28 September 2007
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.