Rural poverty accounts for nearly 63 percent of poverty worldwide, reaching 90 percent in some countries like Bangladesh and between 65 and 90 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. (Exceptions to this ...

On these core issues for the continent’s development, the chairman of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) – a ...

The unemployed continue to outweigh the employed and those living in abject poverty ... down to rural communities and local small businesses, they are counter intuitive to South Africa’s agenda ...

Mzukisi Lembeni's township tours in Cape Town offer a unique glimpse into local life, sparking debate over cultural ...

The research was prompted by studies showing that 36 percent of the population in Africa lives in extreme poverty ...

Many of them are poor people in rural areas of Africa without easy access to treatment. Venomous snakes bite millions of people worldwide each year, killing at least 120,000. Many of them are poor ...