Experts agree that the private sector must play a role in African urbanization, saying African states are too fiscally ...

For a developing country, achieving sustained growth that can lift much of the population out of poverty is usually a ...

Most of the population growth expected over the rest of the 21st century is expected to take place in Africa. These new ...

In it, he advocates the distribution of chickens in sub-Saharan Africa as a means of alleviating extreme poverty – improving the lot of people making less than US$2 a day. Gates argues that ...

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by ...

Africa has seen a wave of youth-led protests fuelled by frustrations over rampant corruption, poor governance, high living ...

But there is no reason to catastrophise or give up hope. If other continents can prosper, so can Africa. It is time its ...

Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor people in rural ...

While 2025 is still very early, so far there hasn’t been much positive movement in the fortunes of Africa’s richest ...

But in sub-Saharan Africa, champions of the idea hope that new-city developments can address the continent’s urbanization conundrum: While the growth of cities has rolled back poverty elsewhere ...