To help health workers in nomad communities effectively track pregnant mothers and infants, a hybrid GPS tracker innovation is in the works. The tracker is an innovation by Dahabo Adi Galgalo, a trained medical laboratory technologist-cum-epidemiologist from Marsabit County, alongside engineering experts as reported by Nation. The innovation is expected to help healthcare workers reach […]
Over 450,000 children in Sudan have been displaced internally and externally in the ongoing violence occasioned by rival military forces. According to UNICEF, an estimated 82,000 children have fled to neighboring countries and approximately 368,000 more are displaced inside the country. In addition, at least nine children have reportedly been killed and more than 50 […]
Wakati ulimwengu unajiandaa kuadhimisha siku ya kimataifa ya watoto waliopotea, takwimu zimeonyesha kuwa, takriban watoto 6500 hupotea kila mwaka nchini Kenya, hii ni sawa na watoto 18 kila siku. Polisi wanasema kwamba, idadi hiyo inaweza kuwa kubwa zaidi ikizingatiwa kwamba watoto wengi zaidi waliopotea hawaripotiwi kamwe. Polisi sasa wanawataka wananchi kuripoti watoto waliopotea ili kupata […]
Gavana wa Mombasa Abdulswamad Nassir ametangaza huduma za afya bila malipo kwa watoto walio na umri wa chini ya miaka mitano katika Hospitali ya Rufaa ya Pwani (CGTRH) na vituo vyake vyote vya mawasiliano. Nasir pia alifichua kuwa kaunti imeanza mipango ya kuanza kugharamia bili za matibabu kwa wagonjwa walio na mahitaji na vile vile kusajili […]
Afghanistan inasalia kuwa miongoni mwa maeneo ambayo yamepata majanga mabaya zaidi ya kibinadamu duniani huku Shirika la Kutetea Haki za Binadamu la Human Rights Watch katika ripoti ya hivi majuzi lilisema kwamba thuluthi mbili ya wakazi wa nchi ya Afghanistan wana uhaba wa chakula. “Afghanistan kwa kiasi kikubwa imetoweka kutoka kwa vyombo vya habari, lakini […]
A Form Four student at Faza Secondary School in Lamu died yesterday after being stabbed by a Form Three student during break time. Reports indicate that the 18-year-old was stabbed with a knife after the two were involved in a fight fatally injuring the victim. The suspect is a 17-year-old student at the same school […]
Recent statistics show that an estimated 13.4 million babies were born pre-term in 2020, with nearly 1 million dying from preterm complications.in addition, at least 152 million vulnerable babies were born too soon from 2010 to 2020 This is equivalent to around 1 in 10 babies born early worldwide according to a new report released […]
In an aim to reduce anemia among children and women, World Health Organization has launched a new framework to half its prevalence by 2050. Taking a different path from the previous work-frames, the new framework will tackle the direct causes, risk factors, and broad social inequities that are fundamental drivers of anemia rather than focusing […]
A recent report indicates that Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two-thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years. Category A abuse, the extreme category, represented 20 percent of illegal images discovered online last year according […]
Sixty percent of bodies being exhumed in Shakahola forest are those of children a report privy to our newsroom indicates. This was echoed by Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki three weeks ago when he visited the crime scene in Kilifi County. Currently, 133 bodies have been exhumed as the government embarks on the second phase […]