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UNICEF: African Children at Dire Risk

By Jason Beaubien

Published December 30, 2003 at 9:00 PM PST

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

UNICEF releases a report on the five major challenges facing children in 2004: child mortality, AIDS, war, child exploitation and the lack of investment by governments in children. Nowhere are the social, economic and health indicators more grim than in Africa. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

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Jason Beaubien

Jason Beaubien is a Peabody award-winning journalist. He's filed stories from more than 60 countries around the world. His reporting tends to focus on issues in lower-income countries. Often his reports highlight inequities, injustices and abuses of power. He also regularly writes about natural disasters, wars and human conflict. Over the last two decades he's covered hurricanes in the Caribbean, typhoons in the Philippines, multiple earthquakes in Haiti, the Arab Spring, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the drug war in Mexico.