South Africa's poverty line has surged to R2 846 per person per month, reflecting the escalating cost of living.

"Inequality is bad for economic growth and bad for poverty reduction." In the past researchers were not able to exactly quantify the effect of inequality in the context of economic shocks. This graph ...

Recently, my family hopped on the United Airlines Boeing 747 from Washington, DC, heading out to Lagos to celebrate my wife’s landmark birthday. This was the second time in 15 years that my three boys ...

The impoverished families of Sub-Saharan Africa face many problems: poor governance, sluggish economies scarce in good jobs, frail civil society, and in some cases the specter of violent conflict. But ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - China's zero-tariff access for Africa's least developed countries kicked in this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said, just as U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola. WHY IT'S ...

A brochure for an African tour has sparked a debate about a well-known international aid program and how Westerners view the poor, notes a new post in Give and Take, the Chronicle’s roundup of the ...

A deadly car crash in Nigeria involving former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two minibus accidents in South ...

Unless Africa tames corruption, new aid efforts will fail. Fresh help for Africa is on the way. When evangelicals joined U2’s Bono this past summer in lobbying the political leaders of the world’s ...

Across Africa, One Health is endorsed at the top but often breaks down where outbreaks start, writes Albert Ansah. Despite ...