The street child who became a top photographer

One of Africa's most prominent photographers, JD 'Okhai Ojeikere, dies in Lagos, Nigeria, aged 83.

Why It's Important to Aid Street Child WC Champs
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THE President of the Mwanza-based Tanzania Street Children Sports Academy, Altaf Mansoor, last Friday made an impassioned appeal to the Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, for assistance in securing a plot for the construction of what he described as a ...

Tanzania boys won the 2014 Street Child World Cup producing a powerful performance to beat their neighbours Burundi 3-1. After the game both teams joined together to stress that the Street Child World Cup was more than just a game, and to congratulate the players from all teams at the tournament. Tanzania and Burundi had already faced each other in the 2014 Street Child World Cup in the opening fixture of the group stages. Tanzania had looked on course for an impressive opening victory,...

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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...

The photographer who shows the horrors of the sea

Zambian photographer Natasha Nguni tells the BBC's Meluse Kapatamoyo about her life as a bald teenager.

A gunman killed a reporter and cameraman during a live television broadcast in rural Virginia on Wednesday, according to officials and colleagues at the station. In chilling footage that has been posted online, WDBJ7 correspondent Alison Parker is seen conducting an interview when shots and screams break out. The camera drops to the floor and the screams continue before the footage cuts away to a clearly confused and concerned anchor. The Franklin County Sheriff Department told NBC...

When Moscow-based photographer Darya Kondratyeva isn’t snapping family, maternity or baby photos, she creates enchanting photos that seem like re-interpretations of old fairytales or legends. The models in her photos seem like they could be witches, princesses or forest spirits.

Aside from her models, trained animals feature heavily in Kondratyeva’s fantasy photography as well. Each one seems like it might open its mouth and whisper a wise secret into the model’s ear.

President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete presents to Kenyan journalist Joseph Mathenge  the top prize at this year’s CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2014 Awards Ceremony held on Satuday night at the Mlimani City Conference hall in Dar es salaam. Looking on is Mathege's son, Geoff Kihato, also a photographer,  who helped his father capture the captivating images of  the Westgate Mall shoppers in Nairobi, Kenya, when the mall was attacked by unidentified gunmen in September 2013. Nico Meyer, CEO...