A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

Why Africa’s deadly cholera crisis is worse than ever - Nearly 350,000 cases have been reported in the past four years, with ...

But there’s another metric – the surge in extreme poverty – that describes the most severe effect of the pandemic on people in Africa. While recession, infections and hospitals dominate the current ...

From Sahelian juntas to South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters, the obsession with shortcuts persists — all to avoid the ...