Poverty in Africa

Introduction Access to electricity is fundamental to economic and social development. It is a key enabler of economic growth, providing the energy required to power businesses and homes.…

Tanzania’s state-run poverty reduction programme said it has lifted more than 105,000 households from extreme poverty. “A total of 105,382 poor households who were living in abject poverty…

Covid-19 pandemic could push 59 million people to extreme poverty, which would bring the total number of extremely poor Africans to 514 million, according to Economic Commission for Africa…

The World Bank said on Wednesday that Nigeria with a poverty rate of 39.1 percent has the largest poor population (79 million extreme poor) in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for 20 percent…

The image of Africa most popular in the world is that of a continent riddled by corruption, bad governance, poverty, wars and diseases.  And to a large extent, that is true. So there is a…