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According to Save the Children, over 65 per cent of these cases involved rape, while others included psychological and physical abuse.
Despite decades of success that have saved over 154 million children’s lives, recent years have seen growing gaps in vaccine coverage.
Local civil society groups and international observers indicate that over 120 children have been abducted in recent days by Al-Shabaab militants in th...
The delisting comes after the Somali government implemented a national action plan aimed at ending the recruitment and use of children in armed confli...
The funding boost follows a March warning from a parliamentary committee that the programme faced a Sh16.9 billion shortfall, putting stipend payments...
In a tiny room in Muthurwa, Nairobi, Auma prepares for motherhood alone—without baby clothes, a hospital bag, or any family support.
The findings reveal a catastrophic impact on the physical, psychological, and social well-being of child survivors and highlight the need for urgent,...
2024 saw a record 41,370 grave violations against children,the highest number verified in nearly 30 years of monitoring/
Millions of children in Africa continue to face serious challenges, including violence, harmful cultural practices, exclusion from education and healt...
The child has been rescued and reunited with the mother after the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) arrested the child trafficking suspect,...
According to IGAD, 25 per cent of all migrants in Africa are children, and the majority of these children come from the East African region.
The funding boost comes amid a surge in gender-based violence across Kenya, with women and girls bearing the brunt of the crisis.
It reveals that although the number of children in child labour has fallen by over 20 million since 2020, the global goal of eliminating it by 2025 wi...
Catherine Kerubo is currently in custody at Buruburu Police Station, where investigations are ongoing to recover the missing child belonging to her fr...
Justice Hillary Chemitei observed that excluding one parent from the naming process could have psychological consequences for the child, either immedi...
The appeal, which runs until April 2026, targets key areas such as nutrition, health, clean water, education, child protection, and food security.
The ministers slammed the reported Israeli decision, calling it a "flagrant violation of Israel's obligations as the occupying power," the ministry ad...
It’s hard to pick a favourite from Ngũgĩ’s over two dozen texts. But there is concurrence among critics that A Grain of Wheat, which was voted among A...
Raquel Smith and her boyfriend, Jacquen Appolis, alongside their friend Stevano van Rhyn, were each handed life sentences for their involvement in the...
Wajir Senator Abass Sheikh lamented that learners in the county are still forced to learn under trees or in overcrowded makeshift structures, conditio...
Our study found that Kenya needs to review its teacher education curriculum to make it more gender responsive. Teachers also need more training to fol...
The ruling marked a significant win for the prosecution in the ongoing case involving Mackenzie and 37 others accused of serious offences related to t...
According to the county government, the transmission rate in Turkana is currently at 16.9 per cent, which is double the national rate of 7.3 per cent,
Muteti told Principal Magistrate Hon Nelly Chepchirchir that between February and March 2023, Shakahola residents called their office to rescue emacia...
Helen Mwikali Kimwele, who manages the Mayungu Children’s Centre in Malindi, recalled receiving 43 children in 2017 who had been rescued from GNI-affi...
Sheikh Moti-Ur-Rasool passed away on Monday morning. Preparations are currently underway for his burial at Lang’ata Cemetery in Nairobi.
Global aid reductions announced early in 2025 mean more than a quarter of these facilities will close, putting tens of thousands of children at risk.
Currently, thousands of crime victims risk being left without essential support as the Victims Protection Board grapples with a critical funding short...
The Somalia Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is only 11.1 per cent funded as of May 12.
It found that 86.9 per cent of the deaths involved infections, with the most common causes being malnutrition, HIV, malaria, birth defects, respirator...
