This year, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to three women.

In some countries in Africa the children are severely malnourished. The United States says it is helping out by providing corn and soy blend to the people who are hungry in Africa, but really it sends that food because it’s cheap.

Although the giant African Crested Rat has been known for years, scientists just discovered that it protects itself by making its fur poisonous.

The United Nations (UN) reports that more than 11 million people in the Horn of Africa need food assistance due to the region’s worst drought in 50 years.

Find out how you can take action through the Girl Up campaign to change the lives of girls around the world!

As a civil war begins in the North African country of Libya, the United States and other Western nations take a side and send in troops.

Bridget Duru, 13, is an eighth grader in Montgomery Village, Maryland. She is a teen adviser with the Girl Up campaign of the United Nations Foundation working to raise money and awareness about girls in developing countries.

These kids in Southern Sudan, Africa, are children of the Wokowu Oke, or “Arrow Boys,” who are traditional archer teams and defenders of the villages. They live in Malakia Village, Western Equatorial State. Soon, they may have a brand new country.

Joyce is a seven-year-old from Juba Jerusalem.

Not everyone is excited about the World Cup Finals. Thousands living in South Africa’s unofficial houses or shacks have been protesting their forced removal by the African National Congress.