Higher numbers of malnourished children suffering from stunting and wasting are found in poorer households in East and Southern Africa, while more overweight children live in the richest homes, a new ...

The Actors Guild of Nigeria has appealed to governments, corporate organisations, development partners and non-governmental organisations to support the maiden African Children’s Film Festival 2026, ...

Child malnutrition in South Africa casts a long shadow across the life course. For example, stunting or being short for their ...

Any parent who has watched a child learning to read knows that it is a journey. Various skills and processes must come together and build "brick by brick" before a child can read a text and answer ...

School mathematics in South Africa is often seen as a sign of the health of the education system more generally. Under the racial laws of apartheid, until 1994, African people were severely restricted ...

“I never went to a movie until Three2Six took us. I never went to the zoo until Three2Six took us,” says 24-year-old Debbie, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. “Most of my childhood ...

It seemed like a pretty straightforward exercise. Arsenii Alenichev typed sentences like "Black African doctors providing care for white suffering children" and "Traditional African healer is helping ...

On the front lines of one of Africa’s forgotten crises, Education Cannot Wait, UNICEF and other strategic partners are providing adaptive learning materials, dedicated resources and trained teachers ...

Kids are undeniably special gifts. They become even more fascinating when they display exceptional gifts from a tender age. Such exceptionally gifted kids are also referred to as geniuses, prodigies’ ...

Many children help out on family farms in Africa. Nana Kofi Acquah/Flickr Children across the vast expanse of rural Africa hoe, dig, plant, carry, tend livestock, cook, scrub, care for their siblings, ...