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Around 600mn people in Africa—roughly 43% of the continent’s population — still lack access to electricity.While electrification rates have improved over the past ...

A new World Bank report has revealed that Africa could play host to 87 percent of the world’s extremely poor population by 2030, an increase from the current 60 percent, if no significant reforms were ...

A World Bank and UNICEF report has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has ...

Jonathan Torgovnik’s photographs on assignment for TIME of people watching Nelson Mandela’s funeral on television in Alexandra township, in Johannesburg, one of the poorest urban areas in all of South ...

WHEATON, Ill. • Kendall Ciesemier was 11 when an idea to donate $360 to sponsor one child in Africa blossomed into a charity that would raise money for thousands of kids affected by AIDS. In that time ...

Recently, my family hopped on the United Airlines Boeing 747 from Washington, DC, heading out to Lagos to celebrate my wife’s landmark birthday. This was the second time in 15 years that my three boys ...

In February 2021, China made a historic declaration: it had achieved the daunting task of eliminating absolute poverty under its current standards. Nearly 99 million rural residents who once lived ...

Sebabatso Mosamo, an Associated Press visual journalist in South Africa who documented elections, the COVID-19 pandemic and ...

Across Africa, the death of Pope Francis is still being keenly felt as Catholic sisters and others mourn the pontiff who paid particular attention to the continent, visiting 10 countries there during ...

Declining trust in local governments, exacerbated by poor service delivery and political instability, threatens democracy and ...