Curb child mortality, Unicef urges leaders

The infants still dying from preventable causes

Zanzibar on course to taming child mortality
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ZANZIBAR Second Vice-President Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi has appealed to development partners to continue supporting the Islands' initiatives to improve health services, particularly that of women and children. “Support from development partners is ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — More of the world’s children are surviving to their fifth birthday, but 6.3 million still died last year, mostly from preventable causes, the U.N. children’s agency said Tuesday.

That’s nearly 17,000 young children dying every day. And while death rates have been cut in half since 1990, the world still is short of meeting a goal of a two-thirds decrease in child mortality by next year, the report by the United Nations Children’s Fund...

 Child marriages in Africa are set to more than double by 2050 unless urgent steps are taken, UNICEF warned Thursday as delegates met in Zambia to discuss how to halt the practice.

Educating parents, community 'curb child marriages'
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EDUCATION to parents and members of the community on how child marriages impact a girl's health and future has the ability to spark powerful change. This was said in Dar es Salaam by Tanzania Media Women's Association (TAMWA) Executive Director, ...

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Tanzania urges China to curb ivory demand to save elephants
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DAR ES SALAAM A Tanzanian government minister described elephant poaching on Thursday as a national disaster, and urged China to curb its appetite for ivory. The east African nation's elephant population shrank from around 110,000 in 2009 to a little ...
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Some Sh265 million has been disbursed to 1,530 women from poor households in twenty villages of Urambo and Sikonge districts up to this month.

JK urges religious leaders to enhance peace
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President Jakaya Kikwete has called upon religious leaders to help the nation uphold the prevailing peace during and after the General Election scheduled for October this year. He sounded the reminding call in Dar es Salaam while marking the second ...
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President Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete meets His Highness the Aga Khan in Toronto during a meeting on Maternal, Newborn and Child Health.  Looking on the left is the Canadian Prime Minister the Righ Honorable Stephen Harper.(photo by Freddy Maro).

His Highness the Aga Khan today praised Canada’s global leadership in efforts to improve maternal, neonatal and child health and stressed the importance of innovative and community-based approaches in meeting the challenge which he described as...