Africa is experiencing a troubling surge in severe lived poverty, reversing hard-won gains from the past two decades, according to a new report.

A recent survey shows that extreme poverty in Morocco has decreased to around 3%, with the country’s poverty index dropping ...

Lived poverty varies widely across the continent in extent, intensity, and trajectory. For example, over the past decade, severe material deprivation has fallen in Liberia, Burkina Faso, Togo, Gabon, ...

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

Cash transfers to vulnerable households have long been a topic of debate among development practitioners. While these ...

A 171-mile road project in a landlocked country in Africa is set to improve transport connections and provide a much-needed ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa has once again highlighted the ambition to turn the SRD grant into a permanent feature of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a massive human rights violation ...

The World Bank raised its economic-growth forecast for South Africa because of a sustained recovery in its energy and ...