African culture in Lagos The 7th edition of the annual African Children Festival brought together more than 300 children from ...

Oregon’s financial support for early childhood education — which allows providers to offer free or subsidized services — is ...

Africans are one of the most genetically diverse groups of people in the world. Most people would think Africans are mostly ...

A South African youngster was upset after he found a public library closed during the weekend. He explained that things like ...

Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, ...

Mothers in the DRC struggling to raise children fathered and abandoned by UN peacekeepers amid fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Four out of every 10 children worldwide will reside in Africa by 2050, UNICEF Ghana has said. Describing this as a significant shift, UNICEF Ghana said it presented an unparalleled opportunity, ...

Refugee children in Kenya's Kakuma camp are turning to dance to cope with harsh conditions. Funding cuts have halved food rations and reduced resources at child-friendly spaces, leaving many ...

An explosion and the stampede that followed at a high school in the Central African Republic have killed at least 29 students and injured more than 250.

They toil in mines, tend crops, scrub floors. An author of a new report on child labor points to great progress in reducing the number of kids who work but says the numbers remain "unacceptable." ...

When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years-old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.

When it comes to African animation, few names ring as loudly as AfrikaToon. Founded by visionary producer Abel N’guessan Kouame, the Abidjan-based powerhouse has become a dynamic hub for telling ...