A new report warns that without urgent pension reforms, old-age poverty and funding gaps ...

THE World Bank, a trustworthy source of information and data, says that Kenya is the 10th-poorest country in the world, with people living on less than 3 USD a day.According to the World Bank/Our ...

Agriculture remains the backbone of the economy, supporting more than 75 percent of Ugandans. Museveni has rolled out ...

The new Executive director and CEO of African Institute for capacity development Prof James Njiru (left) is congratulated by the outgoing boss Prof Dominic Byarugaba of Uganda at the organisation ...

Multidimensional poverty in the country has steadily declined from 23.9 per cent in the first quarter of 2025 to 21.9 per ...

Africa faces challenges in reducing extreme poverty and inequality. In 2024, 8.5% of the global population was living in extreme poverty (that is, on less than US$2.15 a day). Nearly 67% of these ...

Poverty especially on an absolute scale, is a devastating economic/financial disease afflicting most (if not all) human societies across diverse geographies and time periods. However, the intensity ...

Most accounts of African politics begin with corruption, weak institutions and failed governance. Poverty is not a backdrop. It is the terrain on which politics is built and contested. Where the state ...

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