World Israel vaccinates children as young as 5 to combat ‘children’s wave’ Tel Aviv – Israel began rolling out Covid-19 vaccines for children aged five to 11 on Monday, becoming one of... Read more 23 Nov, 2021
Technology New US probe targets Instagram’s impact on children Washington – A consortium of US states announced a joint probe on Thursday of Instagram’s parent company Meta for... Read more 19 Nov, 2021
News DRC’s former child soldiers face tough return to civilian life Goma – Some of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s former child soldiers have become traders, hairdressers and tailors, but... Read more 3 Nov, 2021
World Pope expresses ‘shame’ at French sex abuse scandal Vatican City – Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his personal shame and that of the Church at the sexual... Read more 6 Oct, 2021
World ‘Massive’ child sex abuse in French Catholic Church, inquiry finds Paris – French Catholic clergy sexually abused some 216 000 minors in the seven decades since 1950, a “massive phenomenon”... Read more 5 Oct, 2021
Politics Mozambique insurgents kidnap 100s of boys, train them as soldiers, HRW says Johannesburg – Islamic State-linked militants leading an insurgency in northern Mozambique have kidnapped hundreds of boys and forced them... Read more 30 Sep, 2021
News Congolese children trade life as miners for a chance at school Kipushi – Lined up under a hot sun in Kipushi, a mining city in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo,... Read more 27 Aug, 2021
News Kenyan man admits rape, murder of five young girls Nairobi – Kenyan police on Saturday said a man had confessed to raping and murdering five young girls, just days... Read more 17 Jul, 2021