A 2024 Unicef report found that 23% of South African children experience severe food poverty, eating less than two of the recommended five food groups per day. Unemployment, food insecurity, limited ...

Research shows poverty, violence and instability continue to increase children’s vulnerability to exploitation, disappearance ...

An estimated 417 million children in low- and middle-income countries are living in extreme poverty. Millions of children in high-income countries are also suffering. And more children are at risk of ...

I recently traveled with UNICEF USA partners on a program visit to South Africa. With 45 percent of the population under age 24, South Africa is a land of rich diversity, dynamic growth and complex ...

South Africa has a paradox when it comes to food availability. Its supermarkets are overflowing. But it continues to record high levels of stunted growth.This seems to be a global problem. Data ...

A UNICEF report revealed on Thursday that over 19 percent of children globally live in extreme poverty, with the majority concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The organization urged ...

What’s driving the trend and how to reverse it? Many countries across Africa have embraced universal basic education policies ...

Children living in countries with highest levels of inequality 1.7 times more likely to be overweight than those living in most equal countriesEconomic inequality in wealthy countries is linked to ...

Nigerian singer, Oyinkansola Sarah Aderibigbe, popularly known as Ayra Starr, has said no African child should grow up without electricity, as she reflected on how poor power supply shaped her ...