Across 110 countries, out of 6.1 billion people, nearly 1.1 billion people suffer from extreme poverty. Among the 1.1 billion poor people, almost 534 million are from Sub-Saharan Africa.

The IMF report on Africa’s economy has identified the ten poorest countries in Africa which have the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 2025.

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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa's poverty rate has also been raised, increasing the estimated number of people living in extreme poverty ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.