In Congo, superstitions breed homeless children
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The number of street children in Congo's capital has swelled to around 20,000. Many have been shunned as 'witches.'
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Okapi are phantasmagoric creatures that have inspired the work of Dr. Terese Hart, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Congo.
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Since their home was torched six weeks ago, Peter Monderu's six children sleep tangled like puppies on the cold ground. His 9-year-old girl bears the scars of a horrific arson attack on a church, and his fearful wife startles awake at the least sound.
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Giving credence to the long-held belief that orphanages stunt childrenâs mental development, a study shows that infants placed with foster families have higher IQs on average than those who remain in institutions.
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KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo -- On this day, the first sunny day in a while, Omer Waka decided to stake it all on bamboo wall calendars.
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They have escaped to the camps of Chad with their lives, but, for the refugees from Sudan, rape and violence stalk their days and haunt their nights.
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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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Entering Nairobi's fetid slums the senses are first assaulted by a gagging stench and the sight of garbage everywhere, some even hanging from trees or smoldering in acrid fires.
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SANGRADOURO INDIAN RESERVE, Brazil -- When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.
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Scarred by war and worn by time, the tumbledown wooden houses which dot Freetown are a vestige of the Krios, descendants of freed slaves who once made Sierra Leone a beacon of Western culture in Africa.
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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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Across the United States, a growing number of children are living in shelters or group homes.
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Child workers have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery.
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On almost any day, at almost any time, children dressed in rags with bottles filled with glue pressed to their faces stake out the major intersections of Kenya&#039;s capital.
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Two weeks ago, she was an abandoned three-month-old baby in an orphanage in one of the poorest regions of Vietnam.
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On a central square in the Bulgarian capital, where Sofia's homeless fill plastic water bottles from a public fountain, icons and a large wooden cross form a crude, improvised altar.
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Recent fighting in eastern DR Congo has led to a surge in child abductions by armed groups, a charity says.