Kids Take `Tears of Trees' to Kenya
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By Hana Shazwin Azizan  A GROUP of Malaysian schoolchildren was in Nairobi recently to discuss environmental awareness with students and leaders of other nations. HANA SHAZWIN AZIZAN, 16, the youth co-ordinator of the Tree Theatre Group, describes her experience there.
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More than 50 percent of children in refugee camps around Africa's volatile Great Lakes area have experienced some form of sexual abuse, a humanitarian group said in report Monday.
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HELSINKI, Sep 21 (IPS) - It was a new kind of dawn for some children around  the world Tuesday.
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The UN children&#39;s agency Saturday called upon eastern and southern African nations, where more than eight million children live in dire poverty, to fight the boom in child trafficking on a war footing.
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A new school in the Masai village of Oloolaimutia in East Africa runs day and night now, even though the majestic tribe lives without electricity or running water in its nearby compound of mud houses. More than 400 children attend the school, which uses solar panels to provide light and deliver power to three new laptop computers.
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Gangs of young men armed with machetes are roaming the streets in Kenya as post-election violence threatens to engulf the country. Horrific attacks are being reported, including the torching of a church where people who had sought refuge were burned alive.
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The men on the side of the road gripped machetes as Fauquier County native Gillie Kehoe and fellow Peace Corps volunteers passed in two pickups, zigzagging around charred cars on the way out of a village near Kisumu, Kenya.
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A shy toddler with a strange name is one thread in a larger story of Africans now rebuilding interrupted lives - sometimes after decades of war.
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South African politician Mangosuthu Buthelezi has taught us a useful lesson in Kenya. On Wednesday, he admitted that he has lost two member of his family - his children, to be precise - to Aids-related complications.
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One billion children - half the world&#39;s population of children - suffer from poverty, conflict, HIV and AIDS, according to the United Nations child rights organisation.
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The tale of seven Houston children abandoned in squalor in Nigeria has touched the hearts of many who are reaching out with offers of assistance.
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WAR, poverty and HIV/Aids are causing more than half of the worldâs children to suffer, effectively denying them a childhood, according to a report today.
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Â· Falling branch injures three on school trip  Â· Accident happened as pupils built woodland den
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Some 30,000 kids have been used as fighters. Reestablishing a normal life can be difficult.
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The Christian Science Monitor - As two hulking white UN helicopters recently descended on this small remote town in eastern Congo's Ituri Province, hundreds of schoolchildren fled their classrooms to catch a glimpse of the spectacle.
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&quot;I never want to go through this again,&quot; said eight year-old Katie Waskiewicz, who yesterday checked out the fallen trees and broken roof tiles in her Florida neighbourhood after riding out Jeanne with her family.
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PORT BLAIR, India  - A group of children clamber   curiously over their new toy, a power tiller that sits   otherwise unused by the side of a dirt road in a coconut   palm-fringed village.