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Survey: Sixty Percent of Nigeria’s Children Experience Violence
(Reuters) – Six out of 10 Nigerian children experience some form of violence and a quarter of girls suffer sexual…
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One-Third of World’s People Still Have No Proper Toilets
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Toilets are taken for granted in the industrialized West, but still are…
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Report: Economic Growth Failing to Help World’s Poorest Kids
KATY DAIGLE, Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Global resolve to rescue impoverished children from lives of squalor, disease and…
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UNICEF Urges World to Focus on Most Disadvantaged Children
EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency is warning that unless the world focuses…
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Nigeria’s Boko Haram ‘Increases’ Suicide Attacks
(BBC) – The UN children’s agency says there has been an “alarming” increase in the number of suicide attacks in…
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Boko Haram Refugees Risk Lives to Cross Lake to Chad Camps
KRISTA LARSON, Associated Press BAGA SOLA, Chad (AP) — Kellou Abakar knew she was in trouble as the contractions started…
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UN: South Sudan Militia Frees First Group of Child Soldiers
(BBC) – More releases will occur in the coming weeks, said the agency, which helped negotiate the children’s freedom. The…
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3,000 Child Soldiers to be Freed in War-Torn South Sudan
CHARLTON DOKI, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — About 3,000 child soldiers will be gradually…
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UNICEF Report: Africa’s Population Could Hit 4 Billion By 2100
(NPR) – “The future of humanity is increasingly African.” That’s the prediction in a new UNICEF report, which estimates that…
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