Poverty breeds illiteracy. Illiteracy produces social dysfunction, illicit brews, early marriages, and school dropouts.

The Forum for African Women Educationists (FAWE) Ghana in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation has engaged Girl Child Education Officers amongst other stakeholders in the Northern Region as part ...

The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman, said addressing Nigeria's long-standing poverty and malaria ...

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Mark Suzman, Gates Foundation CEO, says Nigeria has made very important progress in healthcare despite recent cuts to global ...

The CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mark Suzman, has stated that addressing poverty and malaria in Nigeria will ...

AN empty drink can has become a makeshift surgical tool in the poverty-stricken community of Epworth where a traditional birth attendant, Tapiwa Vhinya, uses it to cut umbilical cords during home ...

In the blur of headlights and honking matatus, tiny voices rise: those of children, some barely five years old, selling candies, biscuits and waffles to strangers. Their world was reduced to worn out ...

The absence of strong accountability turns anti-poverty programmes into symbolic gestures rather than vehicles of real change in Nigeria.

South Africa can sometimes appear to be awash with occult crime. From satanist conspiracies and witchcraft accusations to ...