AP: Kids Left in Africa Begged for Change
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IBADAN, Nigeria - Allegedly abandoned by their American mother in Africa, 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." He notified U.S...
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ARUSHA, Tanzania  - At 12, brown-eyed Neema Laizer persuaded her elementary school teacher to accept one liter of milk each morning instead of money because her father refused to pay for a girl to be educated.
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She only wanted to give underprivileged African girls a chance at a better life. But a tearful Oprah Winfrey begged for forgiveness Sunday from students' parents at her all-girls academy, currently reeling from allegations of abuse.   "I've disappoin...
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A group of HIV-positive children trying to attend school in southern India have faced a fresh setback with parents of their classmates pulling their kids out of class, officials said Monday.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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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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KALMA CAMP, Sudan -- She has been in the world for 18 days, and her life is tainted. Curled naked under a blanket close to her mother, Nashwa is too young to know shame, the emotion that will be like a shadow to her.
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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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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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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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&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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Many African countries now have more medics working abroad than they do at home, research shows.
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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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DURBAN, 9 November (IRIN) - With an increasing number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS seeking foster care, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is placing enormous pressure on South Africa&#39;s child welfare system.
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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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N'DJAMENA, Chad, Oct. 27 -- Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
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HOUSTON -- Seven Texas children were discovered abandoned at a Nigerian orphanage, ravaged by disease and malnutrition, and have been brought back to the state.