As the world commemorates the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty - an observance celebrated annually across the world on October 17th – it is deeply concerning that Africa has the ...

About 13 million children in South Africa live in poverty, despite the estimated R700 billion a year investment made by the government, private sector and NGOs to tackle this. Government spending ...

Over half of the people living in poverty — 584 million — are children under the age of 18, with 317 million in sub-Saharan Africa and 184 million in South Asia, it said. In Afghanistan ...

There is some disagreement among legal practitioners and scholars about whether corporations have duties under international ...

Child poverty is not just a moral issue; it bears a steep economic cost for South Africa, amounting to nearly R700 billion each year. This staggering figure emerges from the latest findings of the ...

Challenges faced by children in South Africa are not foreign to many ears. These challenges include child poverty, which is not just a moral issue, but also a thorn on taxpayers. The South African ...

South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth. Economic growth has been slow since a recession in 2008.

Note, however, that although the unity government is a coalition, it is led by the African National Congress ... continue to focus on the reduction of poverty. But this is unlikely to shift ...

Concerned with escalating poverty, we founded the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) and committed $100 million to identify, mentor, and fund young African entrepreneurs—young people with brilliant ...

South Africa has been struggling for decades to reduce poverty, inequality and unemployment and raise the rate of economic growth. Economic growth has been slow since a recession in 2008.

Authorities say a boat carrying 13 Egyptian migrants to Europe has capsized off Libya’s coast, killing all on board except ...