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OPINION: No emotive approach to FGM, medicalization still rife
By Guest Writer, 1100, April 2, 2021 (EAT)
By Maria Wanza There was jubilation when a petitioner, Dr Tatu Kamau, had her case thrown out of court. She had petitioned the court in 2017, cha...

FGM , Tatu Kamau
Over 2 million children in Ethiopia’s Tigray in need of aid: UN
By VOA, 316, December 17, 2020 (EAT)
About 2.3 million children in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have been cut off from humanitarian assistance for over a month, the United Nations said T...

Abiy Ahmed
OPINION: Why we’re uniting in support of African girl leaders to beat AIDS, shift power
By Guest Writer, 1308, October 11, 2020 (EAT)
The International Day of the Girl Child on October 11 is a call for us to reflect on our responsibilities. 25 years ago, governments adopted the hi...

FGM , GBV , Girl-Child , International day of the girl child
Children at increased risk of harm online during global COVID-19 pandemic – UNICEF
By Citizen Reporter, 1130, May 23, 2020 (EAT)
Millions of children are at increased risk of harm as their lives move increasingly online during lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic, UNICEF and partne...

coronavirus , E-Learning , online learning , unicef
6,000 more children under five could die each day as COVID-19 weakens health systems
By Citizen Reporter, 1315, May 14, 2020 (EAT)
An additional 6,000 children could die every day from preventable causes over the next six months as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to weaken health ...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , unicef
9M children at risk of death from pneumonia: report
By Rene Oswere, 1104, January 31, 2020 (EAT)
Stepping up the fight pneumonia could avert nearly 9 million child deaths from pneumonia and other major diseases, a new report has found. Accordin...

pneumonia.
150 migrants die in shipwreck off the coast of Libya
By CNN, 1116, July 26, 2019 (EAT)
At least 150 people have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) confirmed. Around 300 peop...

libya , Mediterranean , migrants , UNHCR
UN Officials: 13 Million in Congo need aid in major increase
By VOA, 922, March 26, 2019 (EAT)
The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Congo has increased dramatically in the past year to 13 million and "hunger and malnutrition have rea...

Congo
Cholera cases reported as hunger, disease stalk African cyclone survivors
By Reuters, 1607, March 23, 2019 (EAT)
Cholera cases were reported on Friday in the Mozambican city of Beira, adding a risk of deadly illnesses for hundreds of thousands of people who are s...

africa , cholera , Cyclone
Zimbabwean rescuers pull 22 bodies from mine, eight more found alive
By Reuters, 1236, February 17, 2019 (EAT)
Zimbabwean rescuers pulled the bodies of at least 22 illegal gold miners out of shafts west of Harare that were flooded earlier in the week, and rescu...

Gold miners , Harare , Henrietta Rushwaya , National disaster , Zimbabwe
Uhuru endorsed as global champion of the Young People’s Agenda in New York
By Wendy Abdallah, 2113, September 25, 2018 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta joined other world leaders on Monday during the launch of an ambitious global partnership through which the UN seeks to get e...

President Uhuru Kenyatta , Uhuru in New York , UN , unicef
“Alarming” risks facing babies born in poorest countries claims UNICEF
By AFP, 948, February 20, 2018 (EAT)
Babies born in the world's poorest countries, most of them in Africa, still face "alarming" risks of death that can be 50 times as high as those in th...

AFP , Belarus , Central African Republic , Chad , Cote d’Ivoire , Estonia , Finland , Guinea Bissau , Henrietta Fore , Iceland , JAPAN , Lesotho , Luxembourg , MALI , Norway , Rwanda , Singapore , Slovenia , somalia , South Korea , south sudan , Sub-saharan Africa , unicef , UNICEF's executive director , UNICEF's global maternity and newborn program chief , United States , Willibald Zeck