Sub-Saharan Africa is the only region where the number of people living in abject poverty has grown over the past 20 years, says a United Nations report. The UNIDO report says those living in absolute ...

The chart shows that Sub-Saharan Africa, which is home to just 16% of the global population, now accounts for 67% of people living in extreme poverty. This distribution is very different from 25 ...

Economic growth is set to rise for the next two years in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not enough to make a significant dent in poverty on the continent, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.

Africa in general, and sub-Saharan Africa in particular, are caught in an economic vortex of poverty and debt. There is a strange and ironic connection between debt and poverty. A new investigative ...

Focusing only on sub-Saharan Africa, where the issue of energy poverty is most pronounced, there is a clear divide between the extent of indigenous resources and the electrification rate. Nigeria, for ...

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications . Published online December 30, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024 ...

Economic growth is set to rise for the next two years in Sub-Saharan Africa, but not enough to make a significant dent in poverty on the continent, the World Bank said in a report on Monday. The ...