By Mary Alorh As the first pope hailing from the Global South, Pope Francis brought a profound understanding of the entrenched issues of inequality, imperialism, and...
By Godfred Zina Libya remains a key transit point for migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, despite its ongoing internal instability....
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written about previously, as many as four billion people globally experience water shortages for at least one month a year,...
By Godfred Zina On July 6, 2024, the heads of the military juntas from Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso gathered in Niamey for the first meeting...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The map above depicts the expected growth rates of African states in 2023. Some estimates have adjusted these a bit upward due...
By Jukka Pirttilä, Mari Kangasniemi and Partners Over half of Zambia’s population lived below the national poverty line in 2015. In rural areas, where 89 percent...
A report by the Africa Progress Panel (APP) says that poverty continue to plague the continent even after most countries registered strong economic growth over the past...
The president of Guinea, Alpha Conde has signed an iron ore deal that has the capacity to lift the country out of poverty. The world’s second-biggest...
Zambia needs faster economic growth than its current single-digit annual rate to tackle rampant poverty, the country’s finance minister said. Zambia’s Finance Minister Alexander Chikwanda said...
Africa is expected to lead population expansion in the next half century that will help spur regional economic growth. “Of all global regions, Africa will lead...
Through investments in African agriculture, the continent has the potential to feed not only itself but the world. According to the World Bank, agriculture is essential...
African agribusiness sector worth about $313 billion currently and providing for more than 70 percent of the jobs on the continent could triple in value by...
(Reuters) – The Obama administration-backed bill to extend jobless benefits for 1.3 million Americans narrowly cleared a Republican procedural roadblock in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday,...
Patrice Motsepe, founder and chairman of African Rainbow Mineral Ltd. PHOTO/Simon Dawson/Getty Images Earlier this year we reported that South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe had pledged...
William “Mo” Cowan. PHOTO/AP The sole Democratic African-American senator cast doubt on the need for a “black agenda” from the president and on its chances of...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A raft of trickle-down economic policies adopted by East African governments to fight poverty seems to...
A man receives a monthly supply of food aid donated to residents of a squatter camp for poor white South Africans. (REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly) When stories are...
Based on the racial divide in the economic gap, a lot has to be done to rebuild our buying power We have fallen to the back...
