Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, the three countries hardest hit by a region-wide food crisis, are set to benefit from a US$100m grant, to assist in funding emergency and supplementary food distribution.
The Minister of Social Development, Dr. Zola Skweyiya has undertaken an emergency visit to the Intandane area in the Eastern Cape to check the reasons for the delays of grant payment to thousands of pensioners.
The Lions Club of Chilanga has helped lift the burden off government in caring for the needy, UPND Chilanga MP Captain Cosmas Moono has said. On a fund-raising walk by the Lions Club of Chilanga on Saturday, Capt. Moono said it was encouraging to see how consistent the club had been in helping to look after the terminally ill.
A local child rights advocacy group has requested the Ministries of National Defence and Justice to investigate reports of child conscription into militia units in the country.
Namibian human rights activists on Wednesday called for the immediate release of 78 Angolans at Dordabis prison, saying their ongoing detention constituted a gross human rights violation.
A survey in The Gambia in October found that acute malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months was 11.2 percent, which was above the 10 percent ceiling used in African countries to indicate an alarming situation, the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme said on Tuesday.
International donors have agreed to support a fast-track education programme in seven developing countries including Burkina Faso, Guinea, Mauritania and Niger, the World Bank reported.
"There is no food at home. I am fed at school. I think I would die without school meals, like my sister did," Janice Simelane, an eight-year-old second grade student at Swaziland's Sobani Primary School, says.
The Healthy Futures project aimed to reduce the drop out rate among Kenyan girls in primary school (equivalent to US grades one through eight) in 31 communities in five districts. The project guided community members to address barriers young girls face in completing primary education and devise solutions to those barriers. This report describes the Healthy Futures activities and lessons learned from April 1998 to June 2000.
