4 days ago · A South African man confessed to physically abusing and raping his infant daughter, killing her. Hugo Ferreira told Pretorian investigators he was left alone with his week-old baby on June 8, 2023 ...

South Africans living with albinism are among the most vulnerable in the country and there is hardly a serious attempt to protect these citizens from human rights violations, violent crimes, and threats.

HOW THE SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES HELP CHILDREN IN AFRICA. For more than 40 years, the SOS Children's Villages in Africa have provided assistance. In 46 African countries, there are a total of 147 SOS Children's Villages, where orphaned and abandoned children find a new home.

6 days ago · The 17-year-old was allegedly killed and her body set afire for refusing to marry a 55-year-old man in Wajir County. She was brutally murdered after 27 days of forced marriage. ... According to documents seen by Nation.Africa, medics noted 100 degree burns on her body with open flame and spinal column injury. The body was found lying outside a ...

Mar 14, 2025 · The rebels shot and killed Freddy's two in-laws, according to his friend Justin. Since then, Justin has barely left home, not even to earn money. His family is surviving on vegetables and fruit.

May 29, 2024 · Violence against children in the central Sahel region of Africa surged dramatically in the last quarter of 2023, skyrocketing by 70 per cent over the previous three months, the UN Children’s Fund...

Jan 9, 2019 · In Africa, mortality rates among children under age 5 decreased by 58 per cent between 1990 and 2017, still, over half of the world’s 5.4 million under-five deaths in 2017 …

• Africa’s child population will reach 1 billion by 2055, making it the largest child population among all continents. • From 2017 onwards, sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest number of births, and this trend will persist for the rest of the century.

This is a list of mass or spree killers in Africa. A mass murderer is typically defined as someone who kills three or more people in one incident, with no "cooling off" period, not including themselves.

Feb 7, 2020 · There have been more than 55,882 grave violations against children in conflict affected areas in Africa between 2014 and 2018 according to new analysis by Save the Children [1]. This includes children being killed, maimed or sexually assaulted - despite commitments by African leaders to end all wars on the continent by 2020.