Poverty across the continent may be lower than what current estimates suggest, though the number of people living in extreme poverty has grown substantially since 1990, according to the latest World ...

A unique analysis of district-level data reveals why inequality is so destructive to the home consumption welfare of people living below the poverty line, especially during times of significant ...

Nuru Maro, Coordinator of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty in Africa, echoed these sentiments, stating that the ...

Politeness and respect are a fundamental part of Ubuntu and other values ingrained in Africans from birth. Such ...

Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. In Africa, Danger Slithers Through Homes and Fields Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each ...

An NGO has taken the South African government to court over a backlog of hundreds of thousands of applications for late birth ...

Many people are now ill-mannered largely because most of our indigenous values have been thrown to the dogs. ... Weaponisation of material poverty is very real in Africa.

It is South Africa’s political-economic structure, its ‘relations of power’, that need transformation, if the objective is to reverse our shameful poverty, unemployment and inequality. This ...

The nonprofit Village Enterprise started out of a San Diego home. It's now a multi-million dollar organization that's lifted two million people out of extreme poverty in rural Africa by providing ...

Torrential rain, severe winds and landslides have killed at least 49 people in the poverty-stricken Eastern Cape province of ...

HIV is surging among adults over 50 in sub-Saharan Africa, yet prevention and treatment campaigns still focus mainly on the young. New research reveals older adults face comparable or higher infection ...