Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, ...

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 ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

Internal divisions, structural poverty, poor governance and competing ... examined domestic conflicts that have affected many parts of Africa. It has analysed ethnic conflicts in Sudan, Rwanda ...

It is incumbent upon the government to alleviate poverty, the leading cause of divorce and separation in Uganda ...

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 ...