AFRICA/UGANDA - Who will help children victims of guerrilla warfare?
Lira (Agenzia Fides) – Hundreds of children, victims of years of war in northern Uganda are denied urgent assistance because of lack of funds and adequate medical service, according to the Northern Uganda Transitional ...
AFRICA/NIGER - Child malnutrition rate increases 42%
Niamey (Agenzia Fides) - Nearly 17 percent of Niger's children younger than five suffer acute malnutrition, a 42 percent increase over the same period last year, according to a national survey released by the government. ...
10 July 2010
AFRICA/GUINEA BISSAU - As population grows, Church faces more challenges
Bissau (Agenzia Fides) – The final results of General Census of Population and Housing of Guinea Bissau, submitted July 9, opens a new page for a new distribution of religious assistance to Catholic communities in the ...
AFRICA/KENYA - Child malnutrition rate lowered in refugee camps in Kakuma
Nairobi (Agenzia Fides) – Aid workers in a camp for some 80,000 refugees in northwest Kenya have in six months slashed acute child malnutrition rates by doubling the provision of nutritional supplements, scaling up fee ...
AFRICA/EGYPT - 2.7 million children aged 6-14 working
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – Ahmed Ramadan, aged 13, works 11 hours a day in a bakery in Cairo’s Kherbet Kheirala slum, where he says he works with hazardous machinery in unpleasantly hot surroundings, and is ill-treated ...