Yearly Archives: 2022
People with disabilities are most often excluded particularly children, from participating in opportunities in their respective communities. More than two decades of socioeconomic challenges in Zimbabwe, children with disabilities are among the most marginalized and under-represented groups of children. This has been largely due to current status quo and environmental barriers including stigma and discrimination, […]
LONDON/NEW YORK, 25 October, 2022 – 559 million children are currently exposed to high heatwave frequency*, according to new research from UNICEF. Further, 624 million children are exposed to one of three other high heat measures – high heatwave duration, high heatwave severity or extreme high temperatures. During a year in which heatwaves in both the […]
30 years of child rights: Historic gains and undeniable achievements, but little progress for the world’s poorest children – UNICEF Urgent action and a recommitment to child rights needed to address age-old and emerging threats NEW YORK, 18 November 2019 – There have been historic gains overall for the world’s children since the Convention on the […]
New York, 15 November 2022- The children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continue to endure a disturbingly high number of grave violations as a result of conflict, including an intensification of armed activities by a growing number of armed groups, particularly in Ituri and North Kivu. The realities of children in the DRC […]
By Hélène Caux in Corrane and Maratane, Nampula province, Mozambique I had never experienced such strong winds and rains in my life!” whispers 56-year-old Patrício Alberto Mponda, recalling the event that still traumatizes him and his family. On 11 March 2022, Cyclone Gombe made landfall on Mozambique’s coast, before moving inland and blazing a trail […]
Without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement exacerbated by rising temperatures, resource scarcity and food insecurity, the UN Special Coordinator for Development in the Sahel and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, warned today. According to a report published today, “Moving from Reaction to […]
Clive Makumbe in Zimbabwe Poor service delivery has always been considered a legacy of poor governance and lack of youth participation in Zimbabwe. However, 41 years into our independence, many local municipalities are still battling with service delivery backlogs. These backlogs have often been attributed to, for example, dysfunctional ward development committees, corruption amongst councillors, […]
Clive Tatenda Makumbe in Kenya A community project that provides farmers with healthy potato seeds, cultivated using innovative laboratory techniques is significantly increasing yields in Kenya, an agricultural expert says. Kenya’s average potato yield per hectare is around ten tonnes but has the potential to increase to three times that amount with the use of […]
Harare, Zimbabwe – In the wake of wild-polio outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique, neighbouring countries have stepped up surveillance to detect cases while preparing for vaccination campaigns recommended by the World Health Organization. Recent reported cases in Mozambique in particular, have put Zimbabwe on very high alert due to high traffic volumes between the two […]
Brazzaville – World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a campaign to raise awareness and spur action for suicide prevention in the African region, which has the world’s highest rates of death by suicide. Around 11 people per 100 000 per year die by suicide in the African region, higher than the global average of nine […]