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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Nigerian Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah of Sokoto says the global financial system is outdated and failing people,” particularly ...

South African street vendor and widow Brenda Mtshali is furious that an automated message on her phone means she will have to skimp on food for her six children. She is one of an estimated 10 million ...

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 ...

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

South Africa remains one of the most unequal countries in the world. The country's per-capita expenditure Gini coefficient, a measure of how spending from income is distributed, stands at 0.65.

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 ...