Sixteen-year-old Darkuna watched, terrified, as six gun-wielding men ransacked her home. She would become one of many ...

Africa, in partnership with Delta Air Lines, has launched the ’10 million African Girls’ (10MAG) campaign to inspire young girls across Africa.This project aims at equipping ten million girls across ...

With too few statutory rape cases prosecuted, South Africa must face the grim truth and demand justice for its youngest victims.

Historian Christa Kuljian and paleoanthropologist Dipuo Kgotleng talk to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the ...

The court determined that the child cannot be stateless, and registering him/her as Rwandan citizen would mean the child can ...

A suspect abandoned a sexual assault attempt and fled after a four-year-old's frantic crying during a home invasion.

A Gauteng high court ruling has addressed the plight of a stateless child born to refugee parents, highlighting the ...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has ramped up effort to tackle the menace of child labour in Nigeria’s artisanal ...

seeks to address Nigeria’s growing child labour crisis, which is the highest in Africa with an estimated 24.6 million children between ages of 5 to 17 in child labour. ILO Director-General ...

Sub-Saharan Africa faces a dual burden of health challenges, with maternal and child health (MCH) and vector-borne diseases ...

Africa’s top public health agency says that Uganda’s Ebola caseload increased to 14 in the last week with a new cluster ...