Africa Renewal is a United Nations digital magazine that covers Africa’s economic, social and political developments. We cover the challenges the continent faces and the solutions to these by ...

A new World Bank report shows that poverty in Africa may be lower than current estimates suggest and no systematic increase in inequality, given the available data Challenges remain substantial: more ...

As an African who grew up in Europe, the kind of poverty I am aware of is mainly the Western kind: council flats, homelessness, alcohol abuse and drug problems. I was curious to find out how I ...

This report provides information about poverty in Africa. The continent has the highest share of people living in poverty globally. First, it shows Africa's poverty, inequality, and wealth ...

Weaponisation of material poverty is very real in Africa. Starvation and general material poverty have stolen the peoples’ dignity as well as power to resist oppression and exploitation ...