Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | Germany is grappling with a shortage of childcare spots for 299,000 children aged three or younger this year, according to a study published Friday by the German Economic Institute (IW). “While birth rates have been declining for two years, the childcare situation is unlikely to ease …
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A whopping 60% of children failing to complete just seven years of primary school is very serious matter COMMENT | PETER NYANZI | When the Uganda National Examinations Board (UNEB) released the timetable for this year’s final examinations recently, some of their statistics left me really disturbed. According to UNEB, the …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | FIFA Foundation started its 2024 community program on Friday, aiming for positive changes from football around the world, especially to children and young people within the communities. According to reports from football’s world governing body, 114 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were accepted onto the program in 2023. …
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Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Children in Africa are among the most at risk of the impacts of climate change, with only 2.4 percent of the global climate funding targeting the youngest, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said in a new report launched on Friday in the Kenyan capital of …
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United Nations, US | Xinhua | More than 2 million children were forced from their homes in the four months of the Sudan conflict, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday. And close to 14 million children are in urgent need of humanitarian support. Many face multiple threats and terrifying …
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United Nations, US | Xinhua | A spike in conflict and displacement in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is pushing children into the worst cholera crisis since 2017, said the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday. Across the country, there were at least 31,342 suspected or confirmed cholera …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of parents in Napak district are struggling to find the children who have been begging in the streets of the Kampala capital city over the years. Many children aged between 5 and 12 years left their homes in villages in the years …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Child rights activists have expressed concern about the negative impact of DNA testing on the identities and citizenship of innocent children. The recent surge in DNA testing, particularly in cases where men discover that their presumed biological children are not related to them, has …
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Why children come before spouse COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | The High Court in Kampala on June 27 ruled that the late Supreme Court Justice Mary Stella Arach Amoko be buried at Jukiya Hill Ward, Juba village in Nebbi District in northwestern Uganda without any disturbance in accordance with the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The children and relatives of the late Supreme Court Justice Stella Arach Amoko have rejected the proposed neutral burial place at Arua Catholic Cathedral Cemetery in Ediofe parish, Arua City. The proposal to bury Justice Arach at a neutral place was reached on Friday during …
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