Climate talks need to better consider the unique needs of children, who are ...

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa. In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a ...

PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief), a landmark US foreign health policy, is recognised for saving 26 million ...

Before going to school, learners wake up as early as 4:30am to fetch water in Mabilingwe village in north-east Limpopo. They pull up to six 25-litre containers on trolleys along the D3708 road to a ...

The Africa Children’s Summit 2025, a child-led event hosted by the government, concluded on Monday in Johannesburg. The summit, having formulated its outcome statement - which is policy ...

Aid workers with Save the Children say fetching water from a well is one of the most dangerous activities for children in the conflict zone. “My two daughters, one aged 15 and the other aged 13 ...

Prof Mignon McCulloch delivered the second inaugural lecture of the year at UCT last week, focusing on kidney diseases in Africa and beyond.

In East Africa, climate change has made water a lifeline and threatVbut science-backed solutions are helping turn the tide.

Children with disabilities face significant challenges in South Africa. Firstly there are delayed ... I rarely saw people with disabilities in the water. I began to notice that the beachfront ...

Ending severe child hunger in South Africa demands a comprehensive and coordinated response, involving government, NGOs, community organizations, schools, and families themselves.

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