What’s more, in sub-Sahara Africa, the lack of integration of women into their economies has a severe financial impact across the region, with a combined 95 billion US dollars in lost ...

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks sixth in terms of the global gender gap, with a current score of 68% according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). In its latest Global Gender Gap Report 2025, released ...

Morocco has occupied Western Sahara since 1975 in defiance of the United Nations and the international community.

We go to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where activists are shining a light on Morocco’s brutal occupation of ...

The mainly desert territory in north-west Africa, Western Sahara is the subject of a decades-long dispute between Morocco and the Algerian-backed Polisario Front. In 1975, Morocco occupied Western ...

There’s a long list of green skills that women across Africa need so that they can get jobs and start businesses that help the world adapt to climate change.

Senior author of the study, Tomita said, “Climate change poses existential threat to all, but pregnant women in resource-limited rural sub-Sahara Africa bear some of the most severe consequences.

The BBC has released its annual 100 Women list, celebrating extraordinary women from around the world who are shaping the future. More than a dozen African women have made the list, each making a ...