MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 21 children, most of them girls, working on a farm in northwestern Nigeria, police and local officials said on Wednesday. Gambo Isah, a police spokesperson, told Anadolu Agency that “18 young women and three young men” were taken away from a farm in Faskari, an area […]
Ouallam, Niger (AFP): Hundreds of schoolchildren have begun attending school in the town of Ouallam in southwestern Niger, a region that for five years was plagued by attacks unleashed by the ISIS and groups linked with Al-Qaeda. The pupils come from 18 villages near Mali whose inhabitants fled to the relative safety of Ouallam in […]
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least nine people, including children, died on Saturday in twin car bomb attacks targeting Somalia’s education ministry in the capital Mogadishu, security officers and witnesses said. Two cars packed with explosives were detonated minutes apart near the busy Zobe junction and followed by gunfire, “I was...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia has said it will seek to retrieve a four-year-old child, who arrived in Italy on a migrant boat alone. In a statement, Tunisia’s Ministry of Women, Family, Children and Seniors said authorities are keen to take “all necessary arrangements to secure the child’s return to the homeland.” The four-year-old girl [&hell...
The past quarter century witnessed an unprecedented decline in child poverty rates in the United States. Today, roughly 1 in 10 children live in families whose economic resources are below the poverty line — a 59% drop over the last 26 years. In 1993, the numbers were more than one in four children. The magnitude […]
American students saw big declines in reading and math scores after years of disrupted learning due to the pandemic. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation’s Report Card, released full data Monday for the first time since 2019. The 2021 exams were postponed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. NAEP […]...
A Boston-based research team on Friday released a study showing a huge jump in U.S. households not having enough food. The study, published in the journal JAMA Network Open, focuses on food insufficiency. Researchers found ending the monthly payments “was associated with a 25% increase in household food insufficiency by early July 2022.” The g...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – One in nine children under 5 years of age admitted to health facilities in Pakistan’s flood-battered areas are found to be suffering from “severe acute” malnutrition, according to a UN report. The report released by UNICEF warned that the health facilities are reporting alarming levels of seve...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Drought-ravaged Somalia could soon see “the death of children on a scale not seen in half a century,” the UN has warned, calling for greater action and funding from the international community. “Today in Somalia, every single minute of every single day, a child is admitted to a health facility for […]
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Hazem Attar was 10 when he fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago. Seven members of his family packed into a bus to escape the city that had endured more than three years of bombs and bullets from government forces under Bashar Al Assad. They were put in a […]
