This report, published by Save the Children, focuses on girls who become mothers while still children themselves, highlighting the particular health risks and challenges which they, and their children, face. It includes the first ever Early Motherhood Risk Ranking which analyses data on child motherhood from fifty countries. Key findings show that early motherhood carries a very high risk of mortality for both mother and baby, with mothers aged 10 to 14 five times more at risk than mothers in their twenties; and that girls in sub-Saharan Africa tend to have the highest rates of early marriage and motherhood as well as the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality.

A total of 7,500 people displaced from their home's following a murderous attack by Christian militiamen on the mainly Muslim town of Yelwa in central Nigeria have been evacuated and put in the care of the Nigerian Red Cross, officials said on Monday. According to the Red Cross, the attack on 2 May by men from the mainly Christian Tarok tribe resulted in the death of more than 600 people. The victims of the massacre and those who fled Yelwa afterwards were mainly people from the Hausa and Fulani ethnic groups with roots in the north of the country.

Programme Planning for Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health focuses on building sound interventions for adolescent sexual and reproductive health designed to strengthen institutional capacity to effectively monitor programme operations and evaluate performance. The nuts and bolts of programme planning are fused with adolescent-centred SRH concerns through an array of provocative and interactive sessions. HIV/AIDS interventions are situated within the context of healthy sexuality and appropriate technology. Learning is facilitated through lectures, case studies, group problem solving and individualised attention.