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In Kenya, many children work in family businesses during school holidays to help cover food and school fees, easing parents’ burden but exposing them...
The ministers expressed deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation, singling out the conflict in Sudan, which has generated unpreceden...
Globally, one in three women experiences physical and/or sexual violence in her lifetime, mostly by an intimate partner — a stark reminder of the scal...
According to UNICEF, at least 67 children have been killed in “conflict-related incidents” since the Hamas-Israel pause in hostilities was announced o...
Children under five face the highest risk, with over 22 per cent living in extreme monetary poverty in 2024, compared with 15 per cent of teenagers. V...
Children’s Fund, UNICEF, highlighted the case of six-year-old twins Yahya and Nabeela, who were critically injured by an unexploded remnant of war in...
CJ Martha Koome described the Children Act 2022 as a transformative framework that demands full implementation.
One of the clearest findings was that multiple exposures compounded the risk. Children who experienced both domestic and community violence were at pa...
CS Cheptumo said the ministry conducted a census of street children and found that they include both Kenyan and foreign nationals. The findings will h...
Each household will receive Sh2,000 under the October 2025 payment cycle as the government steps up support for orphans and vulnerable children throug...
Thousands of Kenyan children under five are dying from preventable pneumonia due to malnutrition, air pollution, and delayed medical care.
Thousands of Kenyan mothers and children remain trapped in Saudi Arabia, facing abuse, neglect, and a fight for legal recognition — as the government...
Health experts warn that crushing tablets or opening capsules to make medicine easier for children to swallow can alter dosage, reduce effectiveness,...
The humanitarian organisation reckons that more than half of these abuses occurred in just four places, the occupied Palestinian territory, the Democr...
They analysed data from over 1,000 participants across two long-term Danish cohorts, including children aged 10 and adolescents aged 18, to investigat...
The Sh120 million programme at KNH will fund life-changing ear implants for children with severe hearing loss, making advanced treatment accessible un...
She urged the National Treasury and county governments to significantly increase funding for child protection services, including the judicial infrast...
The study noted that seven in ten parents knew of the laws designed to protect children, yet two-thirds of children said they did not know where to se...
Similar to the general population, the report highlights that extreme poverty among children is increasingly concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and pl...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
Large numbers of students remain out of school because of mass displacement, limited teaching staff, lack of learning materials, and restricted access...
