Human Rights Watch is honored to address the African Committee of Experts at its 45th Ordinary Session, and join it in celebrating 35 years since the adoption of the African Children’s Charter.

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, ...

The Africa Children’s Summit 2025, a child-led event hosted by the government, concluded on Monday in Johannesburg. The summit, having formulated its outcome statement - which is policy ...

Unicef report found that 23% of South African children experience severe food poverty, eating less than two of the ...

A bedtime story written by a journalist for his daughter during lockdown has grown into a reforestation movement reaching 30,000 children in West Africa. In 2020, journalist Arnaud Wust wrote a ...

When Luzze was eight, he came to North America, flying on an airplane for the first time, as a member of an African Children’s Choir, a program run by organization Music for Life. His dad had ...

Over 1 000 children from across Africa gathered at St John’s College in Parktown from April 4 to 7 for the second annual Africa Children’s Summit (ACS). The summit, held under the theme ...

Child soldiers, underage gold miners, street vendors and cocoa plantation workers: After years of decline in child labor, the COVID-19 pandemic has pushed many African children back to work.

JOHANNESBURG, April 7 (Xinhua) -- As the three-day Africa Children's Summit concluded on Monday, South Africa has announced plans to use its G20 presidency to gather global support for ...

In Eastern and Southern Africa, over half (65 percent) of children aged 12-17 have accessed the internet in the past three months, though this figure ranges from just 25 percent in Ethiopia to a ...