AP: Kids Left in Africa Begged for Change
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IBADAN, Nigeria - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa as she took up military contract work in Iraq, seven children from Texas begged small change to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger's care to a concrete-block orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.    Eventually, the children proved their American citizenship to a passing missionary from Texas by singing the Star-Spangled Banner, and he notified U.S...
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Nigerian pupils and teachers explain how the $100 laptop project has helped education Africa.
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Bulgaria pressed Wednesday for the repatriation of five of its nurses and a Palestinian doctor jailed in Libya after their death sentences on charges of infecting children with HIV were commuted to life in prison.
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&quot;Walking around here, you get the sense that this is not a country like France -- it's a poor country,&quot; says Cynthia, a French teenager among the dozens who have been sent to Senegal under a groundbreaking community service program to aid troubled youths.
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American and European schoolchildren are losing ground to countries such as China and India that are adapting faster to changing needs and producing more of the high-skilled workers the 21st century demands, a new report says.
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Just a few hours after youngsters at a children's home in western Kenya finished the soccer game, their fellow players turned on them.
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The Monitor starts an occasional series on two families who reached out to AIDS orphans.
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&quot;I was told I was going to a better life,&quot; said nine-year-old Rosallio Nyasoro, recalling how she was lured to South Africa before being sold into domestic service for a mere 50 dollars.
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By Beth Sussman  High school students Nick Anderson and Ana Slavin of Gill, Mass., knew they could raise some money at their school to help the people of Darfur. But they knew they could raise a lot more by enlisting the help of high school students all over the country.
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A group of children from Gypsy and Irish Traveller families are to urge the government to do more to help find suitable sites for them to live on.
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loods have ravaged African nations including Ghana and Togo in the west, along with Sudan, Uganda, Somalia and Kenya in the central and eastern regions. At least 200 people have died and hundreds of thousands are displaced
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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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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday appealed for &#36;576.1 million to help millions of children in countries in crisis, ranging from Sudan to Ethiopia and Angola.
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U.S. State Department officials learned that seven American children had been abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage but waited more than a week to check on the youths, who were suffering from malnutrition, malaria and typhoid, a newspaper reported Saturday.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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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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Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.