A little girl with saliva oozing out of her mouth, crawls up and curls on a woman's lap. The woman cuddles the girl as she murmurs something. The girl is trying to say 'maama' with difficulty.

The Legal Assistance Centre says Namibia should provide safe havens for the deposit and care of unwanted babies as one way of preventing the problem of baby dumping and infanticide.

Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has condemned the salary structure being paid by most companies in the Niger Delta region, insisting that the companies were taking advantage of the poverty level in the region to enslave the youths.

Malnutrition is threatening the survival of children n Karamoja, UNICEF has said.

Leaders should groom the youth to take over from them, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Henry Luke Orombi, has said.

THE European Union (EU) has given sh2 Billion to Concerned Parents Association for education and psycho-social rehabilitation of formerly abducted children in Lira district.

The political crisis rocking the Bauchi State government over the sack of the gover-nor's Chief of Staff, Alhaji Shehu Musa Gabam worsened on Sunday with the withdrawal of leadership award earlier bestowed on Governor Isah Yuguda by the Joint Northern

Kenya is sending a strong team to the International Children's Games to be held in San Francisco, US. The team, that leaves Wednesday, mainly comprises swimmers and short distance runners.

The Agency for Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradition Foundation (WOTCLEF), during the weekend arrested a woman for child labour offence, in Nyanya, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory.

President Paul Kagame Monday officially opened a Civic Education Workshop, popularly known as 'Ingando', the first to be organised for Rwandan youth studying abroad.

Rwanda has missed this year's World Junior Athletics Championship which starts today, July 8-13 in Bydgoszcz, Poland.

With youth restiveness springing up virtually in all the states of the federation, the need to design a programme to accommodate some of their excesses took centre-stage at a recent discussion. Agha Ibiam writes

About 2,000 youths from Oru West local government area of Imo State last Thursday protested in Owerri, the state capital over the failure or the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to announce the result of the Oru West constituency bye-election

A large number of child hawkers have been sighted in most Abuja roads since the National Union of Teachers embarked on an industrial action last week.

The National Association of Private Teachers (ANEP) will hold on Saturday in Luanda its first congress meant to call the attention of the society to the behaviour of students, ANGOP learnt.

Child Info", Tunisia 's first data base on infancy, is born. The news was announced on Thursday at the Integrated Center of youth and infancy at the Bardo, by the senior staff of the Ministry of Women's Affairs, family, children

Rwandan youth about to go abroad for studies, together with those already there but currently back in the country, are undergoing a two-week civic education workshop at the Rwanda Military Academy in Gako.

PARENTS and guardians who fail to feed their children will be charged and imprisoned for six months or fined sh240,000.

Book lovers be warned. There is a bookshop in town that, besides books, sells delicious home made snacks, coffee and meals.

The two famous Nigerian dwarf actors, Chinedu Ikedzie and Osita Ihueme, were recently held hostage by a hotel in Bamenda.