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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 ...

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 ...

How can South Africa ensure a just energy transition that guarantees affordable energy access for its poorest households?

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 ...

In 2002, Africa seemed poised to rise. Wealthy creditor nations were wiping billions of dollars of unsustainable debt off the books of sub-Saharan countries, and global demand was surging for the ...

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 ...

In today's global economy, trade remains the most significant glue that binds nations together. It is the foundation upon which the prosperity of our interconnected world rests. A single pencil, ...

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 ...