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AllAfrica News: Children and Youth
For several years after war erupted in Côte d'Ivoire in 2002, children were recruited to fight on all sides of the conflict.
Mrs. Angelina Baiden-Amissah, Deputy Minister in charge of Pre-Tertiary Education has announced an internal repatriation strategy to send back all young migrants who have travelled from rural areas to Accra in search of greener pastures.
With an increased number of children living in the streets of urban areas in Burkina Faso, the government and several non-governmental organisations are coming up with new approaches to address the problem.
G.I. Sorora and Associates, a local marketing and Public Relations firm is in the final stages of starting up a Kids Soccer League in the country in the next two months.
In January of this year the popular brothel known as "Soldier Bar," at Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, was raided, followed by the arrest of more than 160 mostly teenage prostitutes. Although the women taken into custody were registered into rehabilitation programs, today they are now back on the streets. 60 of the 160 confessed to being younger than 16; evidence of the need to end an activity that has been traditionally regarded with heavy silence. In battles against the hypocritical stigmas and medical dangers suffered by these young girls, legalization and unionization have been proposed in intellectual and political circles as a possible solution.
A two-day conference on Namibian women leaders against HIV/AIDS started in the capital yesterday with First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba urging all women in leadership positions to be pro-active in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
Children relocated to the Oshoopala Reception Centre after their families were displaced by recent floods in the northern parts have received learning materials from the Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, Marlene Mungunda.
The Children's Parliament kicked off yesterday with deliberations on the most pressing question affecting the generation of today: Making a choice between a Nike sneaker and a Jack Purcell sneaker; between a Nokia N75 and a Sony Ericsson cellphone, as opposed to saving the money.
The International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) said in Abuja that research on areas affected by cluster bombs in Africa showed that women and children were mostly affected.
Out of 18 million children, Kenya has a total of 2.4 million orphans, a Government survey has revealed.
PARLIAMENT has passed a motion to declare the late Yvonne Namaganda of Budo Junior School a national heroine.
THE Government should set up remand homes in every district so that child crime suspects are not imprisoned with adults, an MP has advised.
The second session of the Children's Parliament opened yesterday with calls on the junior members of parliament to raise their voices on meaningful issues affecting Namibian children.
The Government is working on a policy to address the plight of orphans.
President of the National Youths' Coalition (NYC) Tuesday told Concord Times that the current status of youths in Sierra Leone has worsened since the inauguration of the All Peoples Congress government.
The Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict today expressed concern over the some 500 children associated with the ranks of a Burundian rebel group, calling for their release.
The president of the National Children Council (CNAC), João Baptista Kussumua, Wednesday in Malanje presented the 11 commitments on child protection undertaken by Angolan Government at the 3rd National Forum on Children held in 2007, in Luanda.
Sexual activity among students - both girls and boys - is high and starts early, says a study released on Tuesday.
Five-month-old Esther Amutusiimire needs $14,900 (about sh25m) for open heart surgery in India, writes Chris Kiwawulo. Amutusiimire has a congenital heart disease (Truncus Arteriosus type II), said the Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago.
A Woman suspected to have faked a pregnancy has been arrested over child theft. Annet Kafuko, 21, a resident of Nakosi in Nakisunga sub-county, Mukono district, allegedly stole a two-month-old baby on February 8.
Three children have won sh100,000 in The New Vision's Cashlines game. Christine Tendo, 14, Valentine Mirembe, 13, and Junior, 7, have been playing the game since it kicked off last Monday, according to their mother, Keziah Zziwa.
A Youth and Students Week organized jointly by the Ministry of Education branch in the Northern Red Sea region and the NUEYS branch in the region was colorfully conducted there from May 2 to 4.
Eritrean youth residing in the Italian city of Torino held a meeting from May 4 to 5, during which they set up an association in a bid to strengthen their organizational capacity.
Sexual activity among students--both girls and boys--is high and starts early, says a study released Tuesday.It says eight out of 10 of the adolescents have had sex before they reached 20 years, which forms the bulk of school going youths.
THE National Youth Council (NYC) and the University of Namibia (Unam) plan to initiate a mushroom farming project to alleviate unemployment among the youth.
CHILDREN in Kayunga district become sexually active as early as eight years of age, the district director of health services has said.
School heads fear allowing the return to school of girls who give birth because of the stigma associated with having mothers in a student environment.
Despite Nigeria's pledge in 2000 to deliver Education for All to its citizens, the country accounts 11 million out of the more than 80 million out of school children worldwide.
Hundreds of young entrepreneurs flocked to the Caprivi Regional Youth Expo over the weekend to showcase their products and services, interact and learn more about business developmental opportunities.
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