Nearly two-thirds of South Sudan’s children toil in mines, farms, and conflict zones as hunger and poverty deepen.

The centre’s research findings are that social grant beneficiaries in South Africa are pointing the way. Beneficiaries ...

Foundational learning, the ability to read, write, and do basic math, is the bedrock of every child's education. This is not ...

Children’s Institute has painted a stark picture of what it means to be a child in South Africa in 2025 – a country where ...

The Vice President, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, has said the time has come for Africa to rely more on her resources ...

Evidence has been mounting that poor nutrition impacts both someone's risk of falling ill with TB and how well they do once ill. But as the World Health Organization (WHO) releases new guidelines on ...

"Too many children are in school but not yet learning to read. This report underscores how literacy is at the very core of a child’s learning trajectory - shaping their opportunities and future,” said ...

Seventy percent or more of relatively poor Republicans supported a 15 percent increase in SNAP benefits, an increase in the ...

India's poorest state Bihar goes to the polls on Thursday, and for many of its 130 million people, one issue overshadows all ...

By 2063, Africa’s cities will host an additional one billion people. Yet today, 23 of the continent’s 52 countries remain low-income, with more than 80% of urban jobs in the informal sector. For ...

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