AP: Kids Left in Africa Begged for Change
209155
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...
339445
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.
553492
Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
189610
&quot;While under-nutrition continues to be a key concern, particularly in developing countries, many children in all regions of the world have poor eating habits and are not getting enough exercise,&quot; she added.
327737
DURBAN, South Africa  - Developing countries have pledged to band together to force the West to help tackle their problems, ranging from poverty to reform of the United Nations.
183413
More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
374539
Just a few hours after youngsters at a children's home in western Kenya finished the soccer game, their fellow players turned on them.
276770
ACEH BESAR, Indonesia -- Children returned to school in this rural Indonesian district yesterday, some in freshly cleaned uniforms, others raggedy in bare, muddy feet. Many remained edgy two weeks after southern Asia's earthquake and tsunami catastrophe.
276569
N'DJAMENA  - Six French aid workers sentenced to hard labor in Chad for trying to kidnap 103 children left the African nation on Friday for France where they are to serve their sentences in jail under a bilateral accord.
655984
NAIROBI - When parents in Africa die of AIDS, their orphaned children often go to live with foster parents, in institutions or even on their own.
2109
The warning was dire: "The children will be dead in a few months," the French charity said of orphans in Darfur. It asked people to help by paying thousands of dollars to fly them out of the region's turmoil.
716554
LAGOS, Nigeria -- Seventeen-year-old Stella Felix rises at 5 a.m. to do chores and then walks nearly an hour to school. She has to share textbooks with schoolmates because her parents can't afford to buy them, and she does homework by candlelight.
435721
Â· Child hostage in Nigeria in 'good health' say police Â· Plan to swap girl for father rejected by officials
442827
Families shell out a small fortune to send their kids back to school.
705524
IBADAN, Nigeria -- Allegedly abandoned in Africa by their American mother, seven children from Texas begged for coins to buy food and shuttled from a neglectful stranger&#39;s care to an orphanage, Nigerians said Thursday.
657385
Many African countries now have more medics working abroad than they do at home, research shows.
187240
HOUSTON -- Their squalid stay in an African orphanage behind them, seven Texas children are readjusting to life in America, shopping for school clothes, eating pizza and watching Harry Potter movies.