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 […]
Rais William Ruto ametangaza kuwa kutoka sasa, taasisi za mafunzo zitafunza lugha ya Kijerumani. Akizungumza wakati wa vyombo vya habari vilivyofanyika Ikulu, Nairobi, mkuu wa nchi alisema hatua hiyo itawezesha nchi hizo mbili kuziba pengo la lugha. “Tulikubaliana kuanzisha ufundishaji na ujifunzaji wa Kijerumani katika taasisi za elimu ya msingi, TVET na taasisi zingine za […]
The African Union set aside 16th June Day of the African Child (DAC) as a day for not only celebrating African children but also as a platform for child participation. But, is DAC about children? I am in several planning meetings at sub-national, national, sub-regional, and regional and one thing I have heard over and […]
By Jennifer Kaberi The African Union set aside 16th June Day of the African Child (DAC) as a day for not only celebrating African children but also as a platform for child participation. But, is DAC about children? I am in several planning meetings at sub-national, national, sub-regional, and regional and one thing I have […]
ChildFund International na Tume ya Umoja wa Afrika (AUC) wametia saini mkataba wa kuhamasisha sekta ya kibinafsi na ya umma kusaidia kuunda mazingira salama ya mtandaoni kwa watoto. Hii inafuatia kuongezeka kwa visa vya unyonyaji na unyanyasaji wa watoto mtandaoni kupitia teknolojia ya kidijitali. ChildFund inaongoza msukumo wa sera na sheria za kukomesha unyanyasaji wa […]
Kiongozi wa madhehebu ya kidini nchini Kenya anayedaiwa kuwachochea wafuasi kufa kwa njaa anakabiliwa na mashtaka ya ziada ikiwemo ugaidi na ulanguzi wa watoto. Aliyejiita kasisi Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, ambaye alianzisha kanisa la Good News International Church mwaka wa 2003, alifikishwa mahakamani siku ya Jumanne. Nthenge anashtakiwa kwa kuchochea wafuasi kufa njaa ili “kumlaki Yesu”. […]
A 16-year-old boy from North Carolina in the USA was severely disfigured, with burns covering nearly 80 percent of his body after he participated in a dangerous Tik Tok challenge. The New York Post reported. The latest TikTok trend sees users trying to make the blowtorch using a lighter and a spray can. According to his family […]
Mapema Aprili mwaka wa 2023, mchungaji Paul Makenzi wa Good News International mjini Kilifi, alikamatwa na maafisa wa Kurugenzi ya Upelelezi wa Jinai kwa madai ya kuua na kuwazika watoto katika makaburi ya kina kirefu. Tangia hapo, wachunguzi wameweza kufukua miili iliyopita 110 hadi sasa, huku wengi wao wakiwa watoto. Isitoshe […]