Throughout French-speaking Africa, street children are an all-too-common phenomenon. Although different names are used to describe these children, they all refer to the same precarious reality. In ...

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 25, 2024, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 23 Children Die In South Africa After Ingesting Tainted Snacks.

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children.

Wawira Njiru, Founder and CEO of Food4Education, spotlights Tap2Eat — the NFC wristband powering Kenya’s school feeding ...