Jennifer Spies led Facebook’s product development for the Middle East and Africa, and has over a decade of experience building products that connect communities. Prior to Facebook, she served as a ...

South Africa's poverty line has surged to R2 846 per person per month, reflecting the escalating cost of living.

Obi’s comments come amid growing concerns over food insecurity in several African countries, despite the continent holding 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land. Obi, who was the Labour Party’s ...

As the leaders of the G8 countries prepare to meet in Scotland, political activists and non-governmental organizations are mounting a vigorous campaign to force poverty to the top of the agenda.

Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across ...

LONDON -- Twenty years after a scruffy one-hit wonder first demonstrated his gift for lofty dreams and grandiose statements, hundreds of the world's top performers and more than 1 million fans united ...

Can chickens change the world? Bill Gates thinks so. Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates speaks to the media, in front of a chicken coop set up on the 68th floor of the 4 ...

The greatest risk to Africa's future is not inaction, but reactive crisis responses that inadvertently lock in long-term constraints.Within just one month of the new year, African political attention ...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, November 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Child rights and wellbeing campaigners today urged African governments to take immediate action to end ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

Energy comprises a critical component of social and economic development in which the lack thereof serves as a direct hinderance to economic growth. Despite being arguably the richest continent in ...