Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Border officials in South Africa say they have intercepted dozens of buses carrying more than 400 young children from Zimbabwe without parents or legal guardians in an ...

Community-wide distribution of azithromycin to both infants and children in Niger was effective in preventing deaths, but communities where only infants received the drug had no decrease in mortality, ...

In west Africa, it's common for families to foster children informally. This helps ease the burden on parents and can give children from poorer families a chance to improve their lives. An estimated ...

More than 1,470 people volunteered with the international mission groups Children’s Cup and Feed My Starving Children to pack 272,160 meals to feed hungry African children during an ambitious “mobile ...

The number of lives threatened by catastrophic conditions has doubled in the past five months. A look at UNICEF's action plan for 2023. Women and children queue for health and nutrition services from ...

Police are searching for three male suspects in the mass shooting at an unlicensed bar near the South African capital.

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

South Africa broke ranks with all its Brics partners and voted on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, for a UN General Assembly ...

BBC Studios has announced the extension of its partnership with Switch Media in South Africa to enable customers on the Vodacom network access to BBC Kids by paying for the service through add-to bill ...

Nadia Adjoa Sam-Agudu receives funding from the US National Institutes of Health and the European Commission. Wolfgang Preiser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...