“The main messages which emerge from this effort to assess poverty in Africa are both encouraging and sobering,” said Kathleen Beegle, World Bank program leader and co-author of the report. “Although ...

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 ...

The former Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has warned that one of the biggest threats to democracy today is ...

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

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.

At least 13 million Nigerians have been projected to plunge into poverty in 2025 on high inflation, rising i and naira ...

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 ...

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