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by Saidu Bah Agence France Presse FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AFP) — Sierra Leone began a week of mourning Wednesday as it emerged that 105 children were among more than 300 people who perished in mudslides and torrential flooding, in one of the country’s worst natural disasters. With 600 people still missing in Freetown, President Ernest Bai Koroma described the humanitarian challenge ahead as “overwhelming.” He said flags would fly at half-mast. He called for urgent […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — George and Amal Clooney plan to help nearly 3,000 Syrian refugee children go to school this year in Lebanon, where the United Nations says around 200,000 Syrian refugee children are out of education. More than one million Syrians — including over 500,000 children — are registered as refugees in Lebanon after fleeing the devastating war that has lasted more than six years in neighboring Syria. UNICEF said Monday that […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Dramatic images from Caracas on Thursday (July 06) as protesters and riot police faced off on the streets during heated protests against President Nicolas Maduro. Thursday’s protest saw officers of the National Guard trade tear gas with rocks from protesters. Young demonstrators wearing bandanas over their faces fled through the streets of the Venezuelan capital after police on motorcycles advanced on a blockade laid by demonstrators. The violent scenes come nearly […]
https://youtu.be/rDtieRWH5_A KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — “Zeerak” the bespectacled orange muppet is the latest innovation from Sesame Street in Afghanistan: a children’s TV character who reveres his educated older sister, brought on to screens to show a new generation that a woman’s place is beyond the home. Producers are betting the new character — a four-year-old boy dressed in a traditional shalwar kameez and a waistcoat embroidered in Afghan national colors will inspire millions of children — and […]
By Percival Cunanan Eagle News Service, EBC US Bureau The family is considered as the basic unit of society. Parents play a significant role in building a solid foundation, in having strong relationships, and rearing their children to become morally, socially and spiritually upright. It is not easy to become a parent, but to become an outstanding parent is much harder. You need to pass a series of tests and trials –the “test of […]
Children’s Safety on Motorcycles Act of 2015 Infographics by Dex Magno Research by Jodi Bustos, edited by Jay Paul Carlos
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Somalia, hit by drought and on the verge of famine, will count 1.4 million acutely malnourished children by the end of the year, up 50 percent from late 2016, the United Nations said Tuesday. The UN children’s agency warned that 275,000 of those children were expected to be so severely malnourished that they could easily die. Severe acute malnutrition is the most extreme and visible form of undernutrition, with victims often appearing […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Increasing the number of young children who exercise for just under a half hour a few times a week could save tens of billions in medical costs over their lifetimes, researchers said Monday. Currently, just 32 percent of United States children aged eight to 11 get enough exercise, said the report in the journal Health Affairs. The minimum guideline of 25 minutes a day, three days a week, was established […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — Children account for one-third of civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s grinding conflict in the first three months of 2017, and are paying an increasingly high price in the fighting, a UN report said Thursday in Kabul. From January to March, 210 children were killed — up 17 percent from the same period last year — and 525 injured, out of a total of 2,181 civilian casualties (715 dead and 1,466 injured). The […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — At least 68 children were among those killed in the car bomb attack on a convoy carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday. Saturday’s attack in Rashidin west of Aleppo killed at least 126 people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead. At least 109 of those killed were evacuees from the towns of Fuaa and Kafraya, it […]
DAMASCUS, Syria (AFP) — A United States missile strike targeting an airbase in central Syria killed nine civilians, including four children, on Friday, state news agency SANA reported. The news agency said five of the civilians were killed in the village of Shayrat just outside the base of the same name. It said four more were killed in two other nearby villages — Al-Hamrat and Al-Manzul. Washington said it fired a barrage of 59 cruise […]
