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 ...

Zimbabwe’s government undertook a survey in 2023 to ascertain how many children were living on the streets of the country’s second biggest city, Bulawayo. The most recent numbers were from a ...

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.

Within this context, we saw firsthand how UNICEF delivers on its promise to uphold the rights and well-being of children through critical areas including child protection, maternal and child ...

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

To protect children from the worst of the heat, Mali’s military rulers have shortened the school day, to end before 1 p.m. instead of at 5.30 p.m. during the heat wave.