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afrol News, 20 November - Despite considerable progress over the past 20 years in improving the lot of the world’s children, including a 28 percent drop in annual mortality of those under five from 12.5 million to an estimated 8.8 million, their rights are still far from assured, according to a new United Nations report issued today.

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afrol News, 9 November - Seven African countries will take part in a historic malaria vaccine trials, as the world scientists strive to root out Africa’s number one killer.

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afrol News, 30 October - To mark the first international World Pneumonia Day on 2 November, the GAVI Alliance plans to immunise 130 million children in poor countries against pneumonia, the world’s leading child killer.

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afrol News, 21 October - Reversing a downward trend, immunisation rates are now at their highest ever and vaccine development worldwide is booming, according to a new assessment released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the World Bank.

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UNICEF appeals for donor support to protect CAR's children

afrol News, 21 October - Children in the Central African Republic (CAR) are paying a heavy price for the troubles faced by the country, and their plight could worsen without urgent international support, a senior official with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said.

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» 16.10.2009 - UN expert calls for independent investigation into DRC killings
» 14.10.2009 - UN calls for renewed efforts to save millions of children from diarrhoea
» 07.10.2009 - Young Liberians to audition for top music award
» 06.10.2009 - UNICEF calls for further steps to protect children
» 29.09.2009 - $59 million awarded to eliminate exploitive child labour in 19 countries
» 23.09.2009 - Ban urges for release of children in Uganda conflict
» 22.09.2009 - New partnership to keep children free from HIV in Africa
» 18.09.2009 - Project focus to enhance child nutrition in rural Malawi and Tanzania
» 16.09.2009 - Schools for Africa partnership raise $71 million
» 15.09.2009 - $70 million to revive Zimbabwe’s education
» 11.09.2009 - Global child mortality figures dropping
» 11.09.2009 - Search for bodies continues off Sierra Leone coast
» 09.09.2009 - Commissioner calls for urgent reforms in DRC’s security
» 31.08.2009 - UNICEF head visits children traumatised by DRC war
» 27.08.2009 - New teacher training college for Malawi
» 25.08.2009 - WFP appeals for urgent assistance for Kenya
» 25.08.2009 - UNICEF grants DR Congo $500.000
» 24.08.2009 - Young people’s needs put into action plans
» 19.08.2009 - Special unit to guard gender and sexual violence for Darfur
» 17.08.2009 - UN condemns attack on Somali aid compound
» 17.08.2009 - Côte d’Ivoire wraps up polio immunisation campaign
» 13.08.2009 - South Sudan most hit by global meltdown, UN official
» 12.08.2009 - $1.5 million life-saving support needed in CAR
» 05.08.2009 - Poverty a threat to education, UN
» 05.08.2009 - Security Council strengthens protection of children in war
» 04.08.2009 - AU-UN mission provides funds to Dafur
» 03.08.2009 - WHO stresses breatfeeding in emergencies
» 31.07.2009 - 30 million children targeted in Nigeria's immunization campaign
» 30.07.2009 - Angola gets UN support to boost access to water
» 29.07.2009 - Rwandan child detainees get UN support
» 27.07.2009 - Demobilisation of Darfur child soldiers commences
» 15.07.2009 - Aid agencies appeal for $11 million for Somalia
» 26.06.2009 - 10, 000 girls to be repatriated to Nigeria
» 29.05.2009 - Regional action plan to combat human trafficking adopted
» 19.05.2009 - EU awards €54 million to Horn of Africa
» 18.05.2009 - Nigeria plans to reverse malaria cases by 2010
» 18.05.2009 - Australia to donate 4250 Lapdesks to a Maputo school
» 12.05.2009 - Increasing Diarrheal related child mortality a global scandal, rights organisations
» 08.05.2009 - UNICEF warns Horn of Africa’s children at risk from triple threat
» 05.05.2009 - UNICEF calls on Sudanese warring parties to protect children
» 04.05.2009 - Taylor's acquittal plea thrown out
» 30.04.2009 - UN calls for a 'full stop' on child victimisation in conflict zones
» 22.04.2009 - Malaria still main cause of deaths in Gambia
» 21.04.2009 - Countries set to meet the 2015 education for all target
» 17.04.2009 - Rwanda ministers pledge US$200 each to genocide orphans
» 09.04.2009 - UNICEF commends Sudan for child protection law
» 09.04.2009 - IFRC launches $2.1 million appeal for polio eradication
» 08.04.2009 - Lesotho ready to roll out social cash grants
» 08.04.2009 - UN calls for end of violence in CAR
» 27.03.2009 - Khartoum urged to reconsider its decision on aid agencies
» 26.03.2009 - Senegal gets $3.7 million for food security
» 18.03.2009 - UN send mission to assess Sahrawi refugees situation
» 16.03.2009 - UN commits to work with government to fill agency gaps
» 05.03.2009 - UN demobilises 880 children in DRC
» 04.03.2009 - LRA top official captured
» 03.03.2009 - UNESCO study warns of extreme financial crisis impact on Africa
» 16.02.2009 - WFP launches first food voucher programme in Africa
» 16.02.2009 - 5 die as boat capsize off Canary Islands
» 12.02.2009 - Nigeria arrests 12 for killer teething mixture
» 10.02.2009 - Thousand flee rebel aggression after Ethiopia pull out
» 09.02.2009 - Nigeria oil workers delay strike
» 03.02.2009 - HRW calls for arrest of former rebel leader
» 26.01.2009 - Congo warlord denies war crimes
» 08.01.2009 - Zimbabwe delays new school term by two weeks
» 08.01.2009 - Over 800, 000 children targeted for immunisation in CAR
» 07.01.2009 - Children's advocacy organisation gets a boost
» 19.12.2008 - Kenya rejects HRW report on ARV roll out
» 17.12.2008 - Kenyan children neglected in life saving drugs - HRW says
» 11.12.2008 - SA investigating websites with child porn
» 28.11.2008 - Nigeria arrests seller of killer chemical on teething mixture
» 26.11.2008 - Teething concoction kills 25 children in Nigeria
» 21.11.2008 - Caritas launches US$4 million appeal for DRC
» 19.11.2008 - Ensure better protection for Albino children - UNICEF
» 18.11.2008 - ICC postpones Lubanga's case to January
» 07.11.2008 - Somali stoning victim was a mere child, not an adulterous woman
» 30.10.2008 - MSF pulls out of Niger
» 29.10.2008 - Investment in human lives essential amid financial crisis
» 27.10.2008 - Schoolboy jailed for his love for Spanish team
» 24.10.2008 - Somali teenage jail birds receive UN assistance after release
» 24.10.2008 - SA court declares 'samurai boy' fit to stand trail
» 23.10.2008 - US to disburse community grants to fight Malaria
» 23.10.2008 - Somali's internal refugees increased
» 22.10.2008 - Somali children given first priority in crisis food distribution
» 22.10.2008 - Security Council raises concerns on DRC's resurgent violence
» 16.10.2008 - Nigeria has hope of eradicating polio
» 16.10.2008 - Zimbabwe’s education in much deeper crisis
» 16.10.2008 - 15 million euro food aid for east Africa
» 08.10.2008 - US-Maryland man sentenced for holding Nigerian girl in forced labour
» 02.10.2008 - 19 die in Tanzania disco stampede
» 01.10.2008 - Bissau death toll escalates
» 01.10.2008 - 230 African immigrants land on Canary Islands
» 26.09.2008 - Burkina Faso bans all Chinese dairy products
» 26.09.2008 - UN renews Chad peacekeeping mission
» 26.09.2008 - Uganda's rebel group denies media reports
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