New Report Projects Food Security in Africa to 2025

The government and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have held a workshop to review the impact and progress of the current programme. The findings will be used to plan effectively for the next programme between the government and UNICEF,

Zola's Childcare is a place for children to spend the day and be properly taken care of while their parents are at work in Otjiwarongo.

A group calling itself Tertiary Students of Elubo, has appealed to the government to intervene and ensure that consideration is given to the people of Elubo when it comes to political appointment to the Jomoro district assembly.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Constituency Youth Chairman for the Techiman South, Mr. Mohammed Hassan, spit fire when he was defeated in the constituency elections of the party to elect its new executives.

The Federal Government has proposed a school meal programme for primary school pupils as part of a twin strategy of encouraging primary school enrolment and boosting the nutritional intakes of primary school pupils.

DELEGATES to the 16th World Youth and Students' Festival in Venezuela have called for the reversal of the present capitalistic economic model if exploitation of human beings is to be abolished.

ZAMBIA needs a policy on orphans and vulnerable children, AIDS activist and president of Society Without Women and AIDS in Zambia (SWAAZ) Professor Nkandu Luo has said.

A TWELVE-year-old Cuban school girl has advised US President George W. Bush not to blind himself to the harsh realities that children in his country face.

AS Uganda moves into multiparty politics, politicians and the youth should learn tolerance, the deputy speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, has said.

The Newly Confirmed District Chief Executive (DCE) for the Nanumba North District of the Northern Region, has called for the fullest cooperation and mutual aid of all traditional rulers and members of the district, to materialize his visions.

The committee of inquiry set up to investigate multiple allegations of fraud, conflict of interest, harassment and unfair treatment, against the Director of the Ghana School of Law, Mr. Kwaku Ansa-Asare, starts sitting today, Friday, August 12.

About 200 youths in Warri South Constituency, have been registered free of charge for the on -going National Examination Commission (Neco) registration exercise by the Omawumi Udoh Education Foundation.

THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has funded a pilot project worth over sh200m for the integration of former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) child mothers in Gulu district.

The 1.5 billion naira Osun State Hotel located on the controversial land of Abere, Ede was yesterday destroyed by some people suspected to be aggrieved youths of the town.

Hundreds of youths in Igueben Local Government Council of Edo State yesterday stormed the council secretariat, sacked the acting chairman of the council, Mr Francis Otoibhi, who was away to Germany on an official assignment, and installed the suspended chairman,

The decision by Rwanda to be among the first two countries to come under the peering eyes of the African Union's "peer review mechanism" was as bold and historic as her challenging Nigeria for the headship of the African Development

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Nigeria office would be among other organisations and individuals to be honoured today by Child and World Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to mark its 20 years of service to development of children.

Lagos State government yesterday presented grant-in-aids cheques of hundreds of thousands to some registered voluntary youth organisations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for the purpose of implementing various youth developmental programmes in the state, especially the fight against the endemic HIV/AIDS

In their original villages, the young people of Darfur had many responsibilities; they cultivated the land, took care of cattle and produced charcoal, while some went to school.