African Child Day: A Youth Trapped in a Childhood on Borrowed Time – La Nouvelle Tribune

On June 16, as Africa celebrates the Day of the African Child, the gap between rhetoric on children's rights and reality is stark. Soaring public debt forces African states to cut health and education budgets, pushing millions of children out of school. In sub-Saharan Africa, per capita education spending has not recovered to pre-crisis levels. Rapid urbanization and chronic poverty are also eroding family structures and traditional values of solidarity.