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The document, signed on 26 August, aims to prevent and stop the recruitment and use of children, but also sexual abuse and all other violations against them in Mali.
Cote d’Ivoire has picked holes into the methodology of the 2018/19 survey” of the NORC Research Institute of the University of Chicago (USA) on child labour in the country’s cocoa-producing areas.
A one-year-old baby in eSwatini has become the country’s youngest person to die by hanging, APA learnt on Saturday.
Rwanda has recorded a reduction in cases related to violence against children this year, representing 7 percent of the total criminal cases in the country, Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) statistics showed Friday.
Disadvantaged homeless boys mostly of school-going age commonly known as ‘Zogos’ in Liberia have overwhelmed the streets of the capital Monrovia since the end of the country’s civil war.
In West and Central Africa, more than two million children have not the chance to start the 2019-2020 school year due to insecurity, according to a report by the NGO Save the Children, copied to APA on Thursday.
The Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) has recorded some 3,512 cases of sexual assault against children by August 2019 up from 3060 complaints received in the previous year, one of the senior researchers investigating the phenomenon disclosed on Monday in Kigali.
Kenya’s cabinet on Thursday announced an immediate ban on adoption of children by foreign nationals.
Some 41 cases of rape alleged to have been committed by children have been reported to the Royal eSwatini Police Service between April and July 2019, according to a new report seen by APA on Friday.
The Royal eSwatini Police Service says it is embarking on a crackdown on illegal day-care facilities following the death of 13 children in separate incidents at various centres.