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Sometimes they fight.

They are going to die soon, but I do not want to die."Boys as young as 10 or 11 years live and work by the river; some attend primary school, but others have dropped out.

"As soon as I get up, at 6 in the morning, I wash dishes in the barraca of the boss, I sweep the yard and I sell fried fish.

At night I go with those who drink and dance in the barraca - I go to ba href=/sleep/a/b very late when it is busy.

There is neither Saturday nor Sunday, all days are alike," a 12-year-old boy told Save the Children.

Relevant Links Southern Africa HIV-Aids and STDs Mozambique Industry and Infrastructure Transport and Shipping NGOs and Parastatals Economy, Business and Finance The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among children has increased in both towns.

The head nurse in Chimuara told the NGO that children as young as 12 years with STDs visited the clinic in 2005, whereas in 2004 the youngest child found with an STD had been 15 years old.Mozambican law is inadequate in terms of protecting children from sexual abuse, exploitation and prostitution.

National laws concentrate more on possible penal sanctions for certain sexual offences, and often are not properly implemented, said the NGO.

According to a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) study, there is no law that criminalises child prostitution, except where parents are instrumental in selling their children.The construction of the bridge linking the northern and southern parts of the country will ...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b and doze off in class: Many of America's adolescents are going through life ba href=/sleep/a/b-deprived.Only 20 percent get the recommended nine hours of shuteye on school nights and more than one in four report ba href=/sleep/a/bing in class, according to a poll by the National ba href=/sleep/a/b Foundation released Tuesday."In the competition between the natural tendency to stay up late and early school start times, a teen's ba href=/sleep/a/b is what loses out," said Jodi A.

Mindell of St.

Joseph's University in Philadelphia."ba href=/sleep/a/b serves not only a restorative function for adolescents' bodies and brains, but it is also a key time when they process what they've learned during the day." said Mindell, who is also associate director of the ba href=/sleep/a/b Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

School-aged children and teens need at least 9 hours of ba href=/sleep/a/b a day, according to the National Center on ba href=/sleep/a/b Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health.But the ba href=/sleep/a/b Foundation's poll found that sixth-graders were ba href=/sleep/a/bing an average of 8.4 hours on school nights, while 12th- graders ba href=/sleep/a/b just 6.9 hours, two hours less than recommended.Without enough ba href=/sleep/a/b, a person has trouble focusing and responding quickly, according to NIH.

And the agency said there is growing evidence linking a chronic lack of ba href=/sleep/a/b with an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and infections.

The ba href=/sleep/a/b Foundation poll interviewed 1,602 adult caregivers and their children aged 11 to 17.

It had a margin of error of 2.4 percentage...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b, consumed by newer conflicts, Somalia went up in flames, its capital Mogadishu consumed by fresh war between a bolstered Islamic militia and a so called anti-terrorist alliance of warlords.

Now around 1,000 refugees have crossed into Garissa district as the war that have killed about 80 people spread to the country’s southern coast and lower Juba region.

What is happening in Somalia is significant coming as it did literally hours after an Igad summit in Nairobi where the issue of peace-keepers was discussed.

Significantly the actual skirmishes broke out following the beginning of an Arab League Summit in Sudan where exiled President Abdillahi Yusuf Ahmed, who was in Nairobi for the Igad meet was also in attendance.

But if the new war does not signal a collapse of Igad and international, especially US diplomacy, the successes of the Islamic militias should worry those interested in taming Somalia.

Obviously the US, Arab League and European Union, the main guarantors the Somalia peace process have failed to bridge their conflicting interests, which apart from stifling Igad, have also stymied all efforts to return that country to normalcy and by default allowed militant elements to flourish.

When the Islamic militia rearmed to that deadly effect, the US, especially should explain because she is to some extent responsible for the conflicting signals and lack of progress.

Washington, failed to support the interim president’s return to Mogadishu, instead choosing to copy u...