A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...

Every year the President of the country makes all kinds of promises in the State of the Nation Address. Every year the ...

In 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 16 percent of the world’s population, but 67 percent of the people living in extreme poverty. Two thirds of the world’s population in extreme poverty live in ...

Across Africa, the policies of the Trump administration are already having profound consequences for some of the world’s ...

Two million people have been displaced due to the drought in the Horn of Africa. The drought has also devastated the lives and livelihoods of families ... pushing millions into protracted and ...

On 12th and 13th July the Jeremy Vine Show comes live from Nigeria as part of the BBC's Africa Lives season ... half of all Nigerians live in abject poverty. But taking into account all the ...

create jobs and “lift tens of millions of people out of poverty.” The institute sees Tatu City as a model. Yet building new cities is hard. Africa is littered with failed projects. A handful ...

Yumiko Nobue’s childhood dream was to work as a veterinarian in Africa treating exotic animals ... Austrian native Anna Dengel to provide poor people with better access to health care.