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Smuggling notes into exam rooms or scratching them on the skin used to be the customary ways of cheating in tests. Some candidates would leave notes in the toilets and would walk out and take a peek before returning to the exam room to reproduce them. (AllAfrica)

Fifteen-year-old Ntsebeng Tlokotsi* sighs with relief as she is given 140 dollars. Along with it she receives a bag of maize meal and cooking oil. It is a government handout, and she qualifies for this only because both her parents are dead. (AllAfrica)

The official tasked with spearheading United Nations efforts against malaria has welcomed the decision of the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) to allocate more than $8 million in new funds to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets in eight countries in sub-Saharan Africa. (AllAfrica)

At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout the year. (AllAfrica)

Enock Ssebanga, 21, on Wednesday lost the battle to leukaemia. The picture of his scraggy body published by this newspaper on August 7, 2000 shocked the world about the boundless nastiness of some parents. Then 12, Ssebanga was accused by the step-mother, Regina Nabakoza of being a thief. His father, Charles Kayongo, capitulated to the devilish plot to incarcerate the teenager in an abandoned store for two months, starving. (AllAfrica)

Mozambican Health Minister Ivo Garrido said in Maputo on Thursday that his Ministry's target is to have every child, up to two years of age, vaccinated against the main killer diseases during the next vaccination campaign. (AllAfrica)

The World Should Take Note (AllAfrica)

Lawmakers in Rivers State House of Assembly have faulted the Child Right Bill presented to the House. (AllAfrica)

The Minister of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Senator Adamu Aliero has reiterated his administration's willingness to support the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme. (AllAfrica)

ENOCK Ssebbanga, 20, who as a child was tortured and starved for over two months, died after forgiving his parents. (AllAfrica)

In line with the Sheraton Abuja Hotel's Check Out for Children Kids Belong-theme, over 800 boisterous participants from various sectors of the Federal Capital Territory-Abuja converged on the Sheraton Abuja Hotel on October 10, to walk for vulnerable and orphaned Street Children in the country. (AllAfrica)

PRIMARY school girls in Mityana district missed their Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE) after dropping out of school due to pregnancy and early marriages. (AllAfrica)

DAYS when women's duties were confined to raising children and taking care of households are long gone. (AllAfrica)

Every morning 12-year-old Thomson Genti and his seven-year-old brother, Chifundo, emerge dirty and wretched from the squalor of their hideout behind the crowded shops in the commercial town of Limbe. It is the start of a day of begging, beatings from the older street boys and insults from passers-by. (AllAfrica)

The United Nations today hailed the rescue of 28 children who had been abducted in southern Sudan's Jonglei state, and urged that all those still being held be released immediately. (AllAfrica)

SWAPO says it will sue Rally for Democracy and Progress leader Hidipo Hamutenya for defamation after he alleged that the ruling party had been cheating in previous elections. (AllAfrica)

One of Africa's toughest challenges -- malaria -- is finally getting the attention it deserves. For the past week in Nairobi, the world's leading malaria experts met at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference to review the latest strategies to fight the disease. (AllAfrica)

The 2008 Botswana AIDS Impact Survey III reveals that the productive age group of 15-49 has been hit hardest by HIV/AIDS. The survey indicates that the age group accounts for about half of the 20,254 HIV/AIDS-related deaths in Botswana in the past 12 months. (AllAfrica)

Succour may soon come the way of gifted but indigent children in Nigeria, as an international Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) under the aegis of African Children Talent Discovery Foundation (ACTDF), yesterday in Abuja, said it had concluded plans to raise N500 million, with a view to helping such children to maximize their full potentials. (AllAfrica)

If you were on the streets of Arusha before 10am last Saturday, you might have witnessed, most appropriately, a children's band leading over 100 Rotarians and friends of Rotary through Arusha town. (AllAfrica)

Horizon Construction Company of the Rwandan Ministry of Defence has been picked to construct seven student hostels for the 1994 genocide orphans. (AllAfrica)

Child pornography is increasing at an alarming rate in South Africa, according to Deputy Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. (AllAfrica)

A community based organization, peacock farm awareness and development organization in collaboration with goal Sierra Leone has ended a quiz competition and sensitization forum for over ten schools. (AllAfrica)

The chiefs and people of Gbadzeme in the Avatime Traditional Area in the Ho Municipality have made a passionate appeal to the government, to establish a vocational training school in the town to assist in the provision of skills to youth who could not further their education, as well as people interested in acquiring skills. (AllAfrica)

The Oasis Project Youth Association (OPYA) of Bakau, last Saturday, embarked on a massive cleansing exercise at the Katchikally Crocodile Pool and its surroundings at Bakau. (AllAfrica)

He lay numb on his hospital bed in Kayunga district for almost a week. Plasters, bandages and stitches have become part of his body. They cover the wounds he sustained on the head, neck, right shoulder and private parts. (AllAfrica)

SOME 17 community organisations helping orphans and vulnerable children have received sh3.3b in grants from the Uganda AIDS Commission Civil Society Fund. (AllAfrica)

THE dreaded pneumonia disease kills thousands of Nigerians every year with half of the deaths being children under five years, it has been revealed. And every 15 minutes, a child dies of pneumonia in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

The Coordinator, Child's Rights Advancement Protection Initiative, Barrister Ozioma Onyenweaku has said that only education is capable of addressing the increasing incidence of child abuse and violence against children in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

Landmines and armed attacks in Senegal's Casamance region are preventing farmers from maximizing production from the region's fertile soil, but there is another problem, too: not enough young people are taking up farming, residents and experts say. (AllAfrica)

As tension grips the nation over planned deregulation of the oil sector and the privatisation of the country's refineries, the Education rights Campaign (ERC) has threatened to mobilise Nigerian students and youths for nationwide protest actions and lecture boycotts should government fail to halt this policy. (AllAfrica)

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