More than 300 children and a dozen teachers were taken from St. Mary’s School in north-central Nigeria, the Christian ...

A total of 303 schoolchildren and 12 teachers were abducted by gunmen during an attack on St. Mary's School, a Catholic ...

The latest abduction comes as the White House has expressed concern about ongoing violence against Christians in the West ...

Plagued by child labour and other harmful industrial practices, countries in Africa have a duty to regulate business and hold companies to account for violating children's rights, experts told a ...

A study paints a searing picture: the foundational infrastructure required to deliver safe, high-quality paediatric care is dangerously inadequate in African hospitals.

The Diocese of Kontagora in Nigeria described the Friday kidnapping of children and staff at St. Mary’s Catholic schools as ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Children in West and ...

A report by the U.N. children's agency UNICEF says 181 million children younger than 5 live in severe food poverty. That's about 27% of the world’s youngest children. Africa’s population of more than ...

Save the Children has worked in Africa for more than 60 years. Today, with millions of children and families in Africa already struggling to cope with the impacts of conflict and climate change, ...

Explore the alarming epidemic of gender-based violence in South Africa, often labelled the 'rape capital of the world', and ...

The Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness recently sounded the alarm about a decline in infant immunisation rates in ...

Wendy Kerubo introduced her boyfriend to the court before her father and explained how a visit to him landed her in a police ...