An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth ...

Makarios Initiative for Health and Humanitarian Development, a Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) commemorated the 2025 International Day of African Child (IDAC) with 1500 pupils drawn from schools ...

Millions of South Africans lose out on welfare grants because of a flawed application system, including an automated means ...

South African street vendor and widow Brenda Mtshali is furious that an automated message on her phone means she will have to skimp on food for her six children. She is one of an estimated 10 million ...

No national cadastre exists, making land ownership claims speculative.Ingonyama Trust and Bantustans complicate land ...

Despite global gains on combatting child labor, sub-Saharan Africa still has the highest number of underage workers, highlighting deeper challenges with the continent's fast-growing economies.

Picture a clinic in Kampala growing babies—not born in hospitals, but developed in machines. It sounds like science fiction, ...

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing ...

Lisa Zimmermann, Chief of Child Protection at UNICEF Madagascar, said 47% of 5- to 17-year-olds there are affected by child labor — much higher than in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra ...

As Nigeria joined in the commemoration of the Day of the African Child, the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF has called on the Nigerian government to prioritise children in budget planning ...