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Gen Z-led protests in two diverse African countries highlight frustration over years of poor governance. Fueled by social ...

Some of our leaders are blind to the destitution of our people, and to the plight of Lazaruses who lie skin and bones on the ...

An Estes Park volunteer played a crucial role ensuring a nonprofit with the ambitious goal of completing the installation of ...

Although the multiculturalism of post-apartheid South Africa once led Nelson Mandela to popularize the phrase “rainbow nation ...

Nigeria has 89 million people living in poverty, second only to India. Economist Yemi Kale blames delayed reforms and poor policies for the crisis.

South Africa has failed to improve its position in the latest Global Economic Freedom of the World report, ranking 83rd out ...

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 ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is the world’s second most unequal region after Latin America, with deep-seated structural sources of inequality not only limiting poverty reduction, but growth itself. The report, ...

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 ...