Child poverty,Children Stories
Similar to the general population, the report highlights that extreme poverty among children is increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and pl...
In Kenya, about 21 per cent of adults have elevated cholesterol, compared to roughly 24 per cent globally.
The workshop marks a critical step forward in aligning policy, research, and community needs to ensure that every child in Isiolo gets a strong start...
The index measures hunger using four key indicators, including undernourishment, child stunting, child wasting and child mortality.
But the reality remains grim. While SHOFCO’s safe houses provide essential resources for healing, counselling and education, their ability to care for...
Nafisa from Ghana, 16, spoke up for girls “whose dreams are shaken by crisis”, such as a friend in a nearby village who had to leave school after conf...
This model can forecast where and at what prevalence level acute malnutrition among children is likely to occur in one month’s time with 89 per cent a...
Globally, the numbers are staggering: over 640 million women alive today were married as children, and 12 million girls are still married each year -...
According to Gaza's health ministry, at least 461 people, including 157 children, have died from malnutrition since the war began in October 2023, mos...
Armed gangs now control over 85 per cent of the country’s capital, Port-au-Prince, as well as key roads, cutting families off from food, healthcare, p...
Six witnesses, including Gaala’s mother, Amina Abdi Noor, her stepfather, Mahamud Mohamed, landlady Qurisha Ibrahim, two neighbours, and Corporal Luca...
UNICEF spokesperson Ricardo Pires said that, on average, one child has been killed or injured every 17 minutes, describing the figure as "unacceptable...
The flotilla, comprising multiple vessels carrying hundreds of activists from 44 countries, was stopped about 70 nautical miles off the Gaza coast, wh...
The KNCHR-led forum concluded with a resounding message that ending FGM and other harmful practices demands more than laws. It requires shifting minds...
The decision was reached on Wednesday during a parliamentary sitting in Mogadishu, chaired by Speaker of the Lower House Sheikh Adan Mohamed Noor Mado...
Public Health Principal Secretary Mary Muthoni said the situation is worrying, noting that it is weakening women’s productivity and economic contribut...
Children aged 12 to 13 are presumed incapable unless it is proven that they understood the nature and wrongfulness of their actions.
According to the UN health agency, all but one of the dozen reported attacks on healthcare between September 7 and September 17 have been in Gaza Cit...
The minors, who also face charges of being in Kenya illegally, damaging a national symbol, and causing disturbance, did not take a plea.
Kenya loses an estimated 10 women a day to postpartum haemorrhage, a toll experts say may be even higher due to widespread underreporting.
In 2024, the findings show that over 311 million children in the region lived in households surviving on less than $3 (Sh388) a day, the revised globa...
Medical Services Principal Secretary Ouma Oluga said millions of Africans continue to endure the condition in silence, with many succumbing to painful...
On September 18, 2025, Ganze Sub-County Director of Education Mariam Ngome wrote to the organisation ordering an immediate halt to all donations and s...
TSC Director of Teacher Professional Management, Reuben Nthamburi, said lowering standards would undermine the foundation of learning in Kenya.
In July, Save the Children deployed 25 outreach sites across Turkana to provide health and nutrition services for children and adults in the hardest-h...
Gattuso and his co-accused, Silvia Aoko, are charged with killing a three-year-old girl in April 2024 in Nairobi’s Lucky Summer area.
Government Pathologist Richard Njoroge, who performed post-mortems on four bodies recovered from mass graves in Shakahola, described the grim state of...
Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...
I left Gaza, but Gaza never left me. It lives in my dreams, in my fears, and in my children's questions. I hope - yes, I still hope - to return someda...
