Africa, World

The Portuguese version of UNICEF’s annual flagship report The State of the World’s Children 2008: Child Survival was launched on 20 March in Guinea...

On 29 March 2008, Zimbabweans took part in a general election to elect members of the parliament, local councillors and a president.  According to...

MSF has worked continuously in Somalia for more than 17 years and is currently providing medical care in ten regions in the country. Following the...

The Government of Japan has decided to allocate US$5 million to the Republic of Zambia through UNICEF and the World Food Programme (WFP). The purpose...

The threat of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has been heightened by the displacement of an estimated 300,000 people in Kenya's recent...

At least 8,000 children between the ages of six months and five years have received vitamin A supplements in a health campaign aimed at eradicating...

The painful slowness of announcing the results of Zimbabwe's 29 March poll is being condemned internationally as "suspicious", but the accusations do...

South Africa cut a lone figure in Zambia's tourist capital of Livingstone as the only African country not to endorse a global ban on the use of all...

Violence was relatively low in the run-up to local elections on 29 March in Nigeria's oil-rich Rivers State but with evidence emerging of massive...

Fighting in recent years in eastern Chad between the government and rebels has usually taken place away from civilian populations, but in the latest...