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The articles below are the most recent additions to the Youth & Children category of Africa InfoServ. To read the article, click on its title. To see more Youth & Children articles or to search a particular topic, click on Africa Archive.

Youth & Children is edited by Jacqueline Neun, who lives in Kelowna BC, Canada. She creates resources, runs a global education centre from her home and leads workshops. Youth & Children welcomes youth, children and those who work with them. It addresses issues such as child soldiers, street kids, education, AIDS orphans and trafficking in children. Hands-on activities invite awareness, analysis and action.

Articles marked with a magnifying glass ( Longer, analytical article. ) are longer, more analytical pieces.

Note: Articles from external sources are also included at the bottom of this page. Click here to see them.

1. Somalia: With the support of local elders UNICEF feeds 44,000 children
Author: UNICEF, Nairobi Date Written: 14 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: UNICEF Press Centre
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.unicef.org/media
Key Words: Somalia, supplementary feeding of children, drought,

Summary & Comment: As the drought worsens and thousands are displaced due to conflict, soaring food prices have made it necessary to provide supplementary feeding for 44,000 children under five years of age. JDN
2. Cameroon: Two months after riots, children remain in prison
Author: IRIN, Douala Date Written: 13 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: IRIN News
Secondary Category: Western Region Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
Key Words: Cameroon, children, human rights

Summary & Comment: The crowded central prison in Douala is still holding children under the age of 18 alongside the adult prisoners. They were arrested during riots over high food prices in February. Some have still not been tried. JDN
3. Tax evasion "costs the lives of 1,000 children a day"
Author: Christian Aid, London Date Written: 12 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: Ekklesia
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/
Key Words: Christian Aid, death and taxes, developing countries

Summary & Comment: A Christian Aid report "Death and taxes: the true toll of tax dodging", reports that the money from companies using false accounting to reduce tax liability could save the lives of thousands of children under the age of five each year. The report calls on the UK government to take an international lead to press for reform. JDN
4. May 7th is World AIDS Orphan Day
Author: Joe De Capua, Washington Date Written: 8 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: VOA
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.worldaidsorphans.org
Key Words: Global, AIDS orphans, funding,

Summary & Comment: Worldwide there is a new AIDS orphan approximately every 15 seconds. A grassroots campaign that began with a demonstration on Wall Street in 2002 calls on donor countries to use at least 10 percent of their AIDS funding for orphans and vulnerable children. JDN
5. Burkina Faso: Fresh approach to street children
Author: IRIN, Ouagadougou Date Written: 8 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: IRIN News
Secondary Category: Western Region Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
Key Words: Burkina Faso, street kids, gender issue

Summary & Comment: In Burkina Faso the government and NGOs are taking a proactive approach by paying school fees, providing food, and creating community activities for children and hope to keep them off the street. JDN
6. Longer, analytical article. South Africa: Generation Y must ask "Why?"
Author: Opinion, Zengeziwe Msimang, Johannesburg Date Written: 8 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: Mail&Guardian
Secondary Category: Southern Region Source URL:
Key Words: South Africa, youth, freedom, human rights

Summary & Comment: The author is one of the "Y" generation who grew up asking "Why?; but she feels they have lost their way and become too attached to the "right to have" rather than working to move South Africa to the next level of development for all. JDN
7. Longer, analytical article. State of the world’s mothers 2008: Closing the survival gap for children under 5
Author: CRIN No.981, May 8, 2008 Date Written: 8 May 2008
Primary Category: Youth & Children Document Origin: CRIN No.981, May 8, 2008 Child Rights Information Network
Secondary Category: -none- Source URL: http://www.crin.org/
Key Words: global, child survival, poverty, basic health care

Summary & Comment: Worldwide more than 200 million children under age 5 do not get basic health care when they need it. Every year, 2 million newborn babies die on the day they are born. JDN

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