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 ...

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 ...

In it, he advocates the distribution of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa as a means of alleviating extreme poverty – improving the lot of people making less than US$2 a day. Gates argues that ...

For the 5,000 people ... Africa, champions of the idea hope that new-city developments can address the continent's urbanization conundrum: While the growth of cities has rolled back poverty ...