Focused on four southern and eastern African nations, the pilot project mapped poverty about as accurately as existing asset index methods, but for more useful measures—including the share of ...

Measuring poverty is the first step to delivering support, but it has long been a costly, time-intensive and contentious ...

The theme of the present report is leveraging the African Continental Free Trade Area for the reduction of poverty and inequality in Southern Africa. The theme is in line with the African Union Theme ...

In her new book 'A History of the World in Six Plagues,' Edna Bonhomme describes a 2014 epidemic that decimated a ...

The cuts are expected to undo decades of efforts to save lives, pull people out of poverty, combat terrorism and promote human rights in Africa, the world’s youngest, fastest-growing continent.

Most countries surveyed by Afrobarometer have lost the gains in poverty reduction they achieved in the first decade and a half of the 21st century. The report, based on data from 39 African countries ...

For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

China has become Africa’s single largest trading partner. In response, media and policymakers in traditionally dominant states are increasingly using maps drenched in red or stamped with Chinese ...

Sometime during 1497, the Portuguese armada, led by Vasco de Gama, while searching for a sea route from Europe to India, ...