Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people ...

An investigation by the ICIJ reveals that World Bank investments in private hospitals in East Africa have pushed patients ...

The government must focus on improving development outcomes in the districts that have the lowest development indicators.

The African Union Commission (AUC), in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Namibia and UNICEF, officially launched the “End Learning Poverty for All in Africa (ELPAF)” campaign on July ...

By Akihiko Tanaka, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo From Aug. 20 to 22, the 9th Tokyo International Conference on ...

African governments and development agencies have embraced science, technology and innovation as levers for development over ...

Africa is not poor because God has cursed it. Africa is poor because its people have, for generations, disobeyed the very God they loudly profess to serve. It is high time we confronted this hard ...

Shifting from dirty fossil fuels to cleaner renewable energy is the ultimate end goal under the global Just Transition campaign. But, Africa has another priority: eradicate energy poverty first. New ...

In an emissions-focused world, do oil and gas revenues have a role to play in ending energy poverty in Africa? It may sound counterintuitive, but many would argue that they do, albeit as enablers of a ...

Too often, people are not just robbed but tortured, disabled, humiliated, or murdered for no other reason than a sense of power over the victims.

The deafening roar of hundreds of sewing machines has gone silent. In the tiny African nation of Lesotho, clothing ...

The University of South Africa should be commended for organising a major conference on “Global Governance: G20 and Africa’s ...