See also: Education, Health, Hunger
Safeguarding children in war — April 2008
Pact to end use of children in war — April 2007
Food keeps African children in school — January 2007
Security Council action against using child soldiers — October 2005
‘Children just do not have to die’ — January 2006
UN exposes armies using child soldiers — February 2003
Please note: A special 32-page reprint edition of Africa Recovery has been produced for the May 2002 UN Special Session on Children. This edition contains feature articles on Africa's children from our magazine published between July 2000 and April 2002. Requests for conference or classroom copies can be sent to Africa Recovery, Room S-931, United Nations, NY, 10017.
Special Feature: A troubled decade for Africa's children — April 2002
| Africa's children trapped by poverty, disease, war and insufficient aid, April 2002 | html document | download pdf |
| Mali post modest gains in child
health April 2002 |
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| Liberating girls from 'trokosi', December 2001 | html document | download pdf |
| Graphics: Statistics at a glance, children in Africa AIDS orphans in Africa |
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| Helping children
say 'no' to guns December 2001 |
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| AIDS orphans: facing Africa's
'silent crisis' October 2001 |
html document | download pdf |
| Malawi battles
AIDS orphan nightmare October 2001 |
html document | download pdf |
| The road from soldier back to
child October 2001 |
html document | download pdf |
| Restoring lost
childhood in Sierra Leone October 2001 |
html document | download pdf |
| Child labour rooted in Africa's
poverty October 2001 |
html document | download pdf |
| UNICEF: Three-year-olds
can save the world January2001 |
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| Dakar summit urges renewed global
drive to achieve basic education for all, July
2000 [ Box: Education for an 'African renaissance' ] |
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| Equal enrolment
is just a start, July 2000 [ Box: Senegal to recruit more teachers ] |
html document | download pdf |
| Uganda is tackling school bottlenecks, July 2000 |
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| Schools struggling with crises, July 2000 | html document | download pdf |
See Special Feature on Education in
Africa — July 2000
Saving a war's traumatized children
Wanted: a just, humane world — December 1999
UNICEF: Making right to education a reality — December 1998
Aiding child victims in Sierra Leone — August 1998
[Box 1: Hope for abducted children of northern Uganda]
Special Initiative on Africa: Helping to save the lives of children — March 1998
Malnutrition: the 'silent emergency' — February 1998
World Bank considers child labour conditionality — February 1998
Report details ordeal of northern Ugandan children — October 1997