Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Education minister Janet Museveni is dismayed that several Non-Governmental Organizations-NGOs, are disguising themselves as human rights defenders, but instead promote immorality among school-going children. Janet hinted that there is a new global agenda to deliberately promote immorality, which is evidenced in the indecent entertainment performances …
Read More »Mothers in Kotido warned against starving children for food aid
Kotido, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mothers in Kotido district have been warned against starving their children so as to benefit from food and cash relief from well-wishers. Development partners like the World Food Programme-WFP recently started giving 50 kilograms of food, 3 liters of cooking oil, and cash vouchers of …
Read More »Court confirms charges of aggravated child trafficking against Bishop Fiarce Nkurunziza
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The International Crimes Division of High Court in Kololo has confirmed charges of aggravated child trafficking against four religious leaders from Nansana Municipality. The four are Bishop Fiarce Nkurunziza and Reveland John Nsiyemana, both Rwandan nationals and Charles Ndora and Valens Byakusenge who are …
Read More »ICRC says over 25,000 children are missing in Africa
Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Tuesday that more than 25,000 minors are missing across Africa. According to the global charity’s latest figures, the children represent 40 percent of the 64,000 cases of disappeared persons registered by the ICRC across the continent. Patrick …
Read More »19 percent of children battling TB are malnourished: WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Experts at the 72nd session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa in Lomé, Togo on Wednesday expressed concern over the double burden of childhood tuberculosis and malnutrition. According to WHO, 19 percent of children battling tuberculosis in Africa are at the same …
Read More »UN fund for education in emergencies helps 7 mln young learners in 5 years
United Nations | Xinhua | Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the UN fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises, and strategic partners have reached about 7 million children and adolescents since the ECW became operational in 2017, said the fund in its annual report released Tuesday. Through its strategic partnerships, the …
Read More »Government to vaccinate children against malaria
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The State Minister for Health, Margaret Muhanga has revealed that government plans vaccinate children against malaria. Muhanga made the revelation during a plenary sitting on Tuesday, 16 August 2022 chaired by Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa. “If we do not vaccinate our children again malaria, then …
Read More »1,000 children born in LRA captivity fail to get National IDs
These children were born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic and South Sudan to women and young girls who were abducted by LRA rebels during the war that lasted close to two decades in northern Uganda Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 1,017 children who …
Read More »Children’s elusive, risky behavior not a one day observation: Experts
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In July, three pupils from Green Hill Academy in Buwate made news headlines when they mysteriously disappeared from their school only to be stranded in Entebbe municipality, Wakiso district. According to the police and the narrative of the mother of one of the candidates, the trio …
Read More »New global alliance created to end AIDS in children by 2030
Montreal, Canada | Xinhua | A new Global Alliance for Ending AIDS in Children by 2030 was announced Monday at the 24th International AIDS Conference to ensure that no child living with HIV is denied treatment by the end of the decade and to prevent new infant HIV infections. The alliance …
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