More than 2,000 Kenyan youths from across Nairobi, the capital, will kick off a multi-ethnic football tournament this weekend to score goals in a United Nations-backed bid to use the power of sport to promote reconciliation after last year's deadly

Child rights advocates have said there is still room for expansion of the definition of 'children involved in armed conflict' and formalizing both preventive and protective measures to address the issue, twenty years following the adoption of the Convention on

Luweero District authorities have interdicted the head teacher of Nakigoza Primary School, Mr Fred Balabye, for allegedly stripping five female pupils in the guise of checking them for stolen items and financial mismanagement.

Africa for Democracy and Good Governance (ADG), recently embarked on a weeklong celebration of worldÂ's campaign for the prevention of child abuse and violence against children.

Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation.

The Million Balls Africa Project for children and young people has hit the Volta Region with the presentation of 31 soccer balls and other equipment to three schools in the South Tongu District as a booster to institutions ahead of

The Kanifing Municipal Council (KMC) Youths Fans Club, recently returned back from Ziguinchor, in Senegal, where they visited their Senegalese counterparts; Union de Jenness Triavaille Liberelle.

The 9th WAPI (Words and Pictures) will take place on November 21 at Hotel Africana's People's Space and it has been dubbed "Recycle".

THE 14-year-old girl who caused the death of a 40-year-old man who had attempted to defile her, has been released on Police bond after the intervention of the women lawyers' association, FIDA, and local council officials.

The Gambia international midfielder Tijan Jaiteh, who plies his route with Norwegian premier tier side, SK Brann, will arrive in Banjul in late November with a 20-foot container containing football equipment for deprived Gambian kids, Observer Sports can reveal.

Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) has announced that it would soon reward its Smart Kids Save (SKS) account holders in its forthcoming Annual SKS Raffle Draw.

THE Police in Kasese district have said defilement cases have drastically reduced. An official from the child and family protection unit, Wilson Kathembo, said the decline was due to massive community sensitisation about child rights by civil society organisations.

MBALE district leaders expressed shock and concern after the head of the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) in Uganda revealed that the district had 3,300 child labourers.

A panel of discussants from Nigeria on education and family planning has expressed worries over the gender gap in the ratio of girls to boys in schools especially in the Northern part of the country.

Police in the Liberian capital, Monrovia, are detaining a man in his sixties for attempting to sell one of his six children for US$2,000 (Sh148,000) in a bid to "overcome hardship".

First Lady, Jeannette Kagame yesterday called upon the youth to utilize the available education opportunities to acquire knowledge that will enable them contribute significantly to national development.

I write in response to a story that ran in The Observer on November 9, 2009 under the heading 'President's man under fire over boda boda'. The writer distorted the facts which I would now like to correct.

Two hundred students will benefit from the Presidential Scholarship Programme and will undertake various degree programmes at the University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa starting next year.

Law enforcement agencies seat idly as CÅ"ur Joyeux steals money from hundreds of helpless orphans

Today's story on the dangers of the hubbly bubbly is the start of an initiative between The Star and Lifetalk to raise awareness on the numerous challenges that affect teenagers today.