Fears of exploitation grow for children stranded in Ethiopia s Tigray conflict Reuters 5/4/2021
By Emeline Wuilbercq
ADDIS ABABA, May 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of children separated from their parents are at risk of abuse, exploitation and child labour after fleeing conflict in Ethiopia s northern Tigray region, aid agencies said on Tuesday.
Nearly 5,000 children have lost contact with their parents or been orphaned since fighting erupted in November, with many living in informal camps where they have no adults to care for them and limited food and shelter, Save the Children said. We are very concerned because the protection systems that would normally support separated children have been almost totally disrupted due to the conflict, said Magdalena Rossman, the charity s child protection adviser for the Tigray response.
The End Is in Sight : Tackling a Neglected Tropical Disease in a Global Pandemic
Community-led efforts have helped the fight to eradicate Guinea worm disease.
By Emeline Wuilbercq
ADDIS ABABA, April 29 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) Okello Aballa Ognum regularly has to walk deep into the jungles of southwest Ethiopia to treat the water ponds that harbor a debilitating parasitic disease.
Painstakingly, he measures the water volume to determine how much chemical treatment to use against copepods, the tiny water fleas that carry the Guinea worm larvae.
If ingested by humans, the larvae can grow up to a meter long before emerging through the skin, leading to serious disability and amputation in the worst cases.
By Emeline Wuilbercq, Thomson Reuters Foundation
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ADDIS ABABA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation and meet a pledge to end child labour by 2025.
With school closures, income losses, deepening poverty and limited social services, children across the continent have been forced into work - in gold mines in Mali, cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and hawking on the streets of Uganda. [nL8N2IH56K}
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By Emeline Wuilbercq, Thomson Reuters Foundation
4 Min Read
ADDIS ABABA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From free school meals to decent work for adults, African officials are working to bring child labourers who dropped out of school due to COVID-19 back into the classroom to avoid a lost generation and meet a pledge to end child labour by 2025.
With school closures, income losses, deepening poverty and limited social services, children across the continent have been forced into work - in gold mines in Mali, cocoa farms in Ivory Coast and hawking on the streets of Uganda. [nL8N2IH56K}