“The main messages which emerge from this effort to assess poverty in Africa are both encouraging and sobering,” said Kathleen Beegle, World Bank program leader and co-author of the report. “Although ...

The research was prompted by studies showing that 36 percent of the population in Africa lives in extreme poverty ...

In the 25 years from 1990 to 2015, the extreme poverty rate dropped an average of a percentage point per year – from nearly 36% to 10%. But the rate dropped only one percentage point in the two years ...

Africa is again a proxy battlefield as Russia pursues its war on Ukraine against the West in the Sahel. COVID-19 has also significantly impacted extreme poverty. After slow but steady poverty ...

Increasing levels of extreme poverty in Africa were turbocharged by COVID-19, fuelling the fire of relative deprivation. 2024 was a bleak year for Africa. Libya and Sudan were partitioned.

2. Sub-Saharan Africa Faces the Highest Poverty Rates Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the largest number of people living in extreme poverty, with 413 million individuals-approximately 42% of the ...

Africa will be the second-fastest-growing region globally. But persistent problems, including poverty, the effects of climate change, and weak governance, are fuelling widespread social ...

Uganda has since embarked on several interventions to improve people’s livelihoods, including Poverty Eradication Action Plan ...

The former vice president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), has said Africa contributes minimally to greenhouse gas emissions and ...