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United Nations Children’s Fund Urges Stakeholders to Tackle Menace of Child Labor
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called on stakeholders to tackle the menace of child labor worldwide, according to a statement issued in Bauchi in northern Nigeria on Friday ahead of Saturday’s 11th World Day Against Child Labour. It...
28 Vehicles Procured to Strengthen Health Delivery Activities Across Malawi
The Global Alliance and Vaccine Immunization (GAVI) through the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has procured 28 vehicles worth over $14 million to strengthen health delivery activities across Malawi. Speaking in the Malawian...
Mozambique Child Mortality Rate Drops 15%
Mozambique’s child mortality rate has dropped by 15%, the official Noticias newspaper reported on Thursday. Quoting UNICEF, the paper said that the mortality rate among children under five years of age decreased by 15 percent over the past five years,...
UNICEF Pledges Additional Support for Nigeria’s Nutrition Programs
UNICEF’s Executive Director Ann Veneman has visited the Kebbi and Sokoto states in northern Nigeria where she pledged $1.85 million in additional support for Unicef’s nutrition programs. The newly allocated funds will be used to scale up integrated...
Four Million Malawian Children to Receive Vitamin Supplements
Over four million Malawian children have been earmarked to receive Vitamin A supplement and deworming treatment starting from April 27 to May 1 this year, senior health officials said Monday. Chief Nutritionists Dalitso Kang’ombe told APA during...
Lesotho to Officially Start Child Grants Programme on 22 April
Lesotho has officially announced the completion of the 12 million euro Child Grants Programme which will kick off on 22 April. Briefing the press on the program, Lesotho Health and Social Welfare Minister Mphu Ramatlapeng said that the program was meant...
2000 Zimbabwe Children Living Alone in South African Border Town
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that there are about 2,000 unaccompanied children from Zimbabwe in the South African border town of Musina. UNICEF said in that between 1,000 and 2,000 Zimbabwe children need assistance in Musina,...
Radio Powered By Children for the Children of Swaziland
People are calling Swaziland’s first children’s radio program “Ses’khona”, which literally means, “We’re here”, but in the SiSwati language it implies the arrival of a group that intends to stay and be...
