Jennifer Spies led Facebook’s product development for the Middle East and Africa, and has over a decade of experience building products that connect communities. Prior to Facebook, she served as a ...

South Africa's poverty line has surged to R2 846 per person per month, reflecting the escalating cost of living.

As the leaders of the G8 countries prepare to meet in Scotland, political activists and non-governmental organizations are mounting a vigorous campaign to force poverty to the top of the agenda.

Can chickens change the world? Bill Gates thinks so. Billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft's co-founder Bill Gates speaks to the media, in front of a chicken coop set up on the 68th floor of the 4 ...

LONDON -- Twenty years after a scruffy one-hit wonder first demonstrated his gift for lofty dreams and grandiose statements, hundreds of the world's top performers and more than 1 million fans united ...

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, November 7, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Child rights and wellbeing campaigners today urged African governments to take immediate action to end ...

Stanford scholars Marshall Burke, David Lobell and Stefano Ermon have spent the past five years leading a team of researchers to home in on an efficient way to find and track impoverished zones across ...

The greatest risk to Africa's future is not inaction, but reactive crisis responses that inadvertently lock in long-term constraints.Within just one month of the new year, African political attention ...

Nick Bernards shows long-term failures of microfinance in his book ‘A Critical History of Poverty Finance: Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures’. The burden of proof that microfinance makes any ...

GT Igwe Chrisent said Africa must erase poverty and help people into the middle class to drive faster blockchain technology adoption. Many people have called for Nigeria and Africa to incorporate ...