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Top ten most underreported hum...

Top ten most underreported humanitarian stories of 2007 - Expanded use of nutrient dense ready-to-use foods crucial for reducing childhood malnutrition

africa
Médecins Sans Frontières
Monday, January 14, 2008
Acute malnutrition in early childhood is common in large areas of the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and South Asia — the world's malnutrition hotspots....
mqalnutrition, products, children, milk, peanut, food
SENEGAL: Why the`talibe’ probl...

SENEGAL: Why the`talibe’ problem won’t go away

africa » senegal » dakar
IRIN
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Empty cans used for begging line the entrance of a house in the overcrowded neighbourhood of Grand Yoff in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where a...
talibes, marabout, children, street, kids, money
MOZAMBIQUE: Property grabbing ...

MOZAMBIQUE: Property grabbing leaves orphans destitute

africa » mozambique » catandica
PlusNews
Monday, January 07, 2008
On a farm in the district of Bárue, in the central province of Manica, 16-year-old Helena Ivan hurries home with a small bundle on her head. After...
orphans, property, farm, children, suppoet, provisions
Swerving Car Leaves Seven Chil...

Swerving Car Leaves Seven Children Critically Injured

africa » gambia » bakau
The Point
Friday, January 04, 2008
Seven children sustained serious injuries in a near-fatal car accident when a speeding vehicle with registration number KM 4448 A veered off the road...
car, accident, children, injury, police

Miss Gambia USA founder gives to Sajuka school

africa » gambia » barra
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Njilan Fye, founder and organiser of the Miss Gambia USA beauty pageant, last Wednesday, donated learning materials to the Sajuka Lower Basic School...
Miss Gambia USA, donation, native, stakeholders, school, children
NIGERIA: Laptops-in-schools de...

NIGERIA: Laptops-in-schools debate turns messy

africa » nigeria » abuja
IRIN
Saturday, December 29, 2007
A scheme to give one million low-cost laptops to Nigerian schoolchildren has stalled because some policymakers say the money would be better spent on...
laptop, children, one laptop per child, education
Brig. Gen fetes kids

Brig. Gen fetes kids

africa » gambia
Friday, December 28, 2007
Brigadier General Lang Tombong Tamba, chief of defence staff of the Gambia Armed Forces, has hosted more than a dozen children who took in a radio...
Brigadier, studio, hosted, children, programme, army, KWT
MOZAMBIQUE: Orphans deprived o...

MOZAMBIQUE: Orphans deprived of their inheritance

africa » mozambique » catandica
IRIN
Friday, December 28, 2007
On a farm in the district of Bárue, in the central province of Manica, 16-year-old Helena Ivan hurries home with a small bundle on her head. After...
children, aids, orphans, poverty
CHAD: Child soldiers forcibly ...

CHAD: Child soldiers forcibly mobilised not demobilised

africa » chad » ndjamena
IRIN
Friday, December 28, 2007
A UN programme to demobilise hundreds of child soldiers in Chad has been on hold since November following the resurgence of fighting between the army...
child soldier, children, human rights, rebels, unicef
COTE D'IVOIRE: Tend to cattle ...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Tend to cattle then go to class

africa » ivory coast » fapaha
IRIN
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Shortly before noon 7-year-old Kolotioloma Soro, her 9-year-old sister Anne-Marie and a crowd of other children tie up their cattle to bushes and sit...
cattle, children, school, education
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