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1.	Cameroon: Soaring child malnutrition in north
	Author: IRIN, Kousseri	Date Written: 27 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Western Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Cameroon, children’s health & nutrition, poverty
	Summary & Comment: While it is common to have high rates of child malnutrition in northern Cameroon between harvests, the present situation is worse than usual. Crop failure due to heavy floods this year, a cholera outbreak, and chronic poverty have all added to the problem. JDN
2.	Swaziland: Albino girl grabbed by masked man
	Author: James Hall	Date Written: 24 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: The Star, August 25, 2010
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.iol.co.za
	Key Words: Swaziland, children’s human rights, albino children,
	Summary & Comment: Albino children have been looked upon with mistrust in African countries, sometimes turning up mutilated or dead. This is the first time it has occurred in Swaziland. JDN/CJW
3.	Sahel: Peanut pastes and milk powders to save children
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 20 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Africa, Sahel, children’s health & nutrition
	Summary & Comment: Therapeutic products, such as Plumpy’nut, Plumpy’doz and others, that are being used to treat malnourished children in the Sahel region of Africa are outlined in this article. JDN/CJW
4.	South Africa: A teabag could save millions
	Author: IRIN	Date Written: 19 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Health and AIDS	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org/
	Key Words: Children, health, water, microbiology
	Summary & Comment: The invention of a teabag able to convert dirty water into potable water could change the lives of millions living in the two-thirds world. Imagine all the children that would be spared water-borne diseases such as cholera. JDN/CJW
5.	South Africa: Action needed to avert youth unemployment time bomb (opinion)
	Author: Andile Lungisa, Johannesburg	Date Written: 17 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Africa News Update, Aug.17, 2010
	Secondary Category: Southern Region	Source URL: http://www.afrika.no
	Key Words: South Africa, youth unemployment, education
	Summary & Comment: This article, by Andile Lungisa, chairperson of the National Youth Development Agency and deputy president of the ANC Youth League, was originally published in the South African Mail and Guardian. It sets out his concerns about unemployed youth, and suggests ways to correct the basic education system that will be of the benefit to the country as w . . . [expand]
6.	Sudan: We are ready for separation
	Author: CISA No.084, Rumbek	Date Written: 13 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: Catholic Information Service for Africa
	Secondary Category: Sudan	Source URL: http://www.cisanewsafrica.org
	Key Words: Sudan, youth, separation
	Summary & Comment: Youth in South Sudan plan to demonstrate on the 9th of every month, up to the day of the referendum in January 2011 to support the movement for the separation of South Sudan. JDN
7.	South Sudan: Children too hungry to return to civilian life
	Author: Zack Baddort, South Sudan	Date Written: 13 August 2010
	Primary Category: Youth & Children	Document Origin: IPS News
	Secondary Category: Sudan	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa
	Key Words: Sudan, child soldiers, demobilization, health & nutrition
	Summary & Comment: There are many challenges for those working with former child soldiers, but it is increasingly difficult because the government budget doesn’t allow sufficient funds for social services and food. Many drift back to the army in order to feed themselves. JDN

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   Five years after a local charity opened a university to offer this bullet-scarred city’s youth an alternative to militia life and emigration, the first degrees have been awarded. "I want our people to know that education is the ladder of life and th...
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3. DRC: Where schools have flapping plastic walls
   It is a sunny day at the Mashango primary school in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC’s) North Kivu Province. That is good news for teacher Dusaba Mbomoya who is holding a geography exam under a roof filled with holes in a classroom where flapp...
4. Africa: 2010 Distinguished Africanist Awards
   Professor N’Dri Assie-Lumumba and Professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo were awarded, each separately and for their respective scholarship, the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award offered by the New York State African Studies Association (NYASA) on March...
5. Africa: African students to get common history syllabus
   In an effort to ensure that African youth learn about their common heritage, the UN, historians, education specialists and governments are now developing a history syllabus for schools across the continent. The new syllabus is to be based on the book...