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Malawi Chief, Theresa Kachindamoto Terminates 850 Child Marriages

Malawi Chief, Theresa Kachindamoto Terminates 850 Child Marriages

The mild-mannered woman who zips around a farmhouse packed with knick-knacks and insists her guests eat a meal before any introductions, presents a character at odds with her fearsome reputation of being Malawi’s top marriage terminator. Thirteen years ago, Theresa Kachindamoto could not have conceived of ever leaving her job of 27 years as a […]

CAR Freed Child Soldiers to Join Their Families

CAR Freed Child Soldiers to Join Their Families

The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is working to reintegrate 163 child soldiers with their families where possible, or provide job and skill training along with psychological services, Mohamed Malick Fall, UNICEF’s representative in the Central African Republic said, Associated Press reported. The 163 child soldiers were released during a ceremony on Friday, August 28, […]

India’s health survey shrouded in mystery

India’s health survey shrouded in mystery

Good health data is rare in India. The last time the country published a comprehensive, state-wide survey was back in 2007. So why hasn’t a vast survey of women and children carried out by the Indian government with the UN agency for children, Unicef, been released? India’s so-called Rapid Survey of Children was a huge […]

Darfur’s Surging Violence

Darfur’s Surging Violence

Violence in Sudan’s Darfur has surged to levels not seen in a decade, with more than 150,000 people driven from their homes this year alone. The region’s long-suffering residents are also bearing the brunt of a measles epidemic. It is a conflict to which the international community appears to have no answer and which risks […]

Poverty in Oil-Rich Angola Feeds World’s Worst Child Death Rate

Poverty in Oil-Rich Angola Feeds World’s Worst Child Death Rate

Disinfectant and crying wafted across the Angolan hospital ward where 2-year-old Fernanda Afonso slept in the lap of her mother near an empty intravenous bag that had been used to fight her malnutrition. It’s the same affliction that killed all five of her siblings as toddlers and scars Africa’s second-biggest crude oil producer with the […]

Kampala blazes a trail in cutting child deaths

Kampala blazes a trail in cutting child deaths

KAMPALA – Inside the second busiest hospital in Uganda, a Somali refugee gingerly paces up and down the maternity ward to ease her labour pains, passing a Congolese woman resting in bed after a Caesarean section. “I am happy because they welcomed me here. They help everyone, even if you are a refugee,” said Esther […]

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