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13 March: Ugandan peace talk to resume soon

16 March: Children behind bars suffer abuse in Burundi

9 March: Gender violence widespread in Kenya

13 March: Refugee repatriation to southern Sudan resumes

20 March: Aid workers access to people in Darfur diminishing

22 March: "I can stand up again, thanks to free ARV"

19 March: Sudanese women sentenced to death by stoning

20 March: Darfur IDP camps reaching full capacity

2 March: Publication addressing violence against women

21 February: Task force to address abuse and exploitation

22 February: 2,000 families fled their homes in Mogadishu

15 February: Campaign against FGM in Eritrea is working

21 February: Violence out of control in Mogadishu

26 February: 26 displaced children died of diseases in Kenya

2 March: UN to boost emergency response in southern Sudan

22 February: Kenya orders Ethiopian asylum-seekers to leave

22 February: In Lira, Uganda, by-laws pay off

23 March: Thousands of Chadian refugees flee to Darfur

20 April: Urgent need for protection in Sudan, report says

23 April: Somali war escalates

16 April: Over 10,000 Sudanese refugees back from Uganda

20 April: Army must stop use of child soldiers in DR Congo

23 April: 100 new primary school to be built in southern Sudan

25 April: Intensified fighting in Somalia blocks aid to children

20 April: Millions of lives at risk in Lake Victoria region

23 April: UN troops bring new hope for Darfur

12 April: More AU Peacekeepers attacked in Darfur

10 April: Landmines continue to plague the south

10 April: Sudan obstructs aid workers of denouncing rights violations

23 March: Hoping for better times in Somalia

27 March: Eastern Africa TB control programmes inadequate

11 April: 50,000 Sudanese refugees repatriated to southern Sudan

12 April: Threat to food security in southern Sudan

10 April: Eritrea bans female circumsision

11 April: UN report on sexual violence in Darfur

22 December: High Commissioner for refugees visits Chad among growing insecurity

24 December: Civilian lives at stake when Ethiopia attacks Somalia airport

7 December: Fears of humanitarian crisis in Somalia as war talk escalates

12 December: State of the World's Children 2007, UNICEF report

15 January: Children and HIV/AIDS in Africa

16 January: Border closure keeps children out of school

4 January: Alarm at reports of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers in southern Sudan

5 January: Protect Somali children from conscription

5 December: Sudan has the highest rate of HIV infection in north Africa

19 October: Ending physical and humiliating violence against children

12 November: UN’s Jan Egeland visit Juba to push for peace

16 October: Darfur refugees plea for more protection

18 October: 40 teenagers killed by security forces in Ethiopia

24 November, Nairobi: 4 million people in Darfur are in desperate need of help

1 December: World AIDS Day marked in Ethiopia

21 November, Nairobi: Aid to be flown in for children affected by Somali floods

22 November, DR Congo: Police arrest 87 children over election clashes

17 January: Children affected by war in Somalia

5 February: Rights group accuses Ethiopia of crackdown

9 February: Fighting forces still recruiting children in Africa

2 February: Report on implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in Kenya

5 February: Increased child recruitment in Darfur

14 February: Education and livelihoods in southern Sudan

15 February: Thousands displaced in land clashes in Kenya

9 February: Violence continues to limit Darfur aid operations

12 February: Sudanese child soldiers struggle to give up guns

2 February: Sudanese authorities to reinforce child protection

22 January: Meningitis outbreak in southern Sudan

24 January: International Conference on Sexual Abuse of the African Child to be held in Nairobi, Kenya

17 January: Joint statement from members of the United Nations Country Team in Sudan

20 January: Ugandan rebels reject invitation to peace talks in Juba. Save the Children urge the international community to act.

31 January: European Children’s Network launches Website

1 February: UN Secretary General urges patience in Darfur

26 January: New venue key to Uganda peace talks

30 January: Streamlining ARV provision for refugees

KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence

KENYA: Health workers grappling with conflict-related sexual violence

KENYA: Lucy Awino: "I pray that things will go back to how they were before"

KENYA: Angela: "My children need to start school but we're stuck in the camp"

KENYA: Peter Okoth: "We are threatened by the same people we treated for their injuries

KENYA: Officials grapple with implications of sending IDPs "home"

KENYA: Pledges high but millions more needed in humanitarian aid

KENYA: Violence paralyses western towns as political crisis deepens

KENYA: Homeless in the homelands - the perils of IDP evacuation

11 December: Aid focus shifts to recovery in Uganda

13 December: Phelister Njeri: "I fear my two-week-old twins will catch pneumonia, sleeping on this cold floor"

6 August: Red Cross confirms pullout from Ethiopia’s Ogaden

9 August: Urge to prioritise war affected children in Uganda

KENYA: Rape on the rise in post-election violence

SOMALIA: Maadey Suufi: "The worst experience of my life

13 December: Ebola outbreak leads to border closure

CHAD: Army forcibly recruiting youths, rights group says

KENYA: No place to call home

ZIMBABWE: Children bearing the burden of political violence

Unaccompanied children of war

KENYA: The little village that could

ZIMBABWE: Children bearing the burden of political violence

TANZANIA: Vaccination campaign treats millions of children

ETHIOPIA: Families hard hit by food crisis

ETHIOPIA: Malnutrition increasing in southern regions

Save the Children Staff in Sudan relocated

Child migrants tell all

ETHIOPIA: Strategy to focus on malnutrition

ETHIOPIA: Strategy to focus on malnutrition

KENYA: Violence slowing down humanitarian effort

SUDAN: Whooping cough outbreak in West Darfur

SUDAN: Darfur attackers violated international law - UN

I have a mine in my living-room, what should I do?"

KENYA: Crisis highlights cluster complications

SUDAN: Hundreds of children missing after Darfur attack

18 May: Violence still hampering humanitarian action in Darfur

25 May: Child trafficking on the rise in DR Congo

16 May: New NGO Advisory Council for follow-up on violence

16 May: One-third of conflict victims were children

30 May: UN OHCHR Annual Report 2006

4 June: Making humanitarian work safer

25 May: Risk of health crisis in southern Sudan

25 May: Watchdog points to abuses across region

14 May: Refugee repatriation to gather pace

30 April: 37 schools closed in Kenya due to insecurity

8 May: Violence handbook for parliamentarians launched

26 April: Malaria accounts for one death every 30 seconds

27 April: Seizing the opportunity for peace in Uganda

10 May: Deployment of UN troops to start within 3 months

11 May: Child soldiers demobilised

8 May: Experts meet to discuss orphans

8 May: Sweden the best country to be a mother and a child

4 June: Donors fail to fulfill pledges to help Africa

27 July: Aid to flood victims in southern Sudan

27 July: Update on education in Lakes, southern Sudan

25 July: Male circumcision as HIV prevention?

25 July: 25,000 more Darfurians flee home

2 August: Darfur UN-AU force to boost humanitarian access

3 August: Rights abuses continue in Sudan according to UN

1 August: Risk of cholera outbreak in Nairobi slums

1 August: Child labour on the rise in southern Sudan

24 July: Child soldiers in the Chad conflict

7 June: Maternal mortality highest in southern Sudan

11 June: Sudanese children abducted for fighting and sex

6 June: Day of the African Child 2007 on child trafficking

6 June: Flood-hit coastal families in Kenya need aid

13 June: 21 children imprisoned in Rumbek, southern Sudan

15 June: Sharing experiences on Juvenile Justice

11 June: Child soldiers found in Somali capital

13 June: World Day Against Child Labour

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