Many African countries have transitioned from low-income to middle-income status based on Gross National Income (GNI) per ...

Africa is again a proxy battlefield as Russia pursues its war on Ukraine against the West in the Sahel. COVID-19 has also significantly impacted extreme poverty. After slow but steady poverty ...

A 171-mile road project in a landlocked country in Africa is set to improve transport connections and provide a much-needed ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again highlighted the ambition to turn the SRD grant into a permanent feature of the ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation. 2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned.

2. Sub-Saharan Africa Faces the Highest Poverty Rates Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with 413 million individuals-approximately 42% of the ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate ...

The research was prompted by studies showing that 36 percent of the population in Africa lives in extreme poverty ...

Uganda has since embarked on several interventions to improve people’s livelihoods, including Poverty Eradication Action Plan ...

According to the World Bank, nearly 700 million people are currently living in extreme poverty and the Sub-Saharan Africa region accounts for 67% of these people. Ramaphosa said that at the same ...