Eswatini had the highest female unemployment rate at 39.4%, followed by South Africa ( 29.9%) Gabon (29%) and Botswana (27%).

In 2018, about 30.9% of Nigeria’s population lived below the international poverty line of $2.15 a day. With a population of about 227 million in 2023, this translates to about 70 million people ...

1. Honourable Chair, it is with a great sense of responsibility and honour that I rise to table Budget Vote 19 of the Department of Social Development for the 2025/2026 fiscal year to this august ...

Discover how the Sidewalk Steri Clinic is revolutionising pet care in South Africa's townships, providing essential veterinary services and education to improve the lives of both animals and their ...

Around a quarter of countries still have nationality laws that deny women the same rights as men to acquire, retain, or change their citizenship, or to pass citizenship onto their children or foreign ...

In the north of Mozambique, Al-Shabaab have waged a brutal insurgency since 2017, leading to beheadings, rapes, and burned villages, even as recent as reports dated 2024. The fight over liquified ...

TB can be cured, but ridding the body of the bug often takes many months and usually requires taking four or more medicines. In this special briefing, Spotlight zooms in on what makes the TB bacterium ...

Archbishop Inácio Saúre of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nampula in Mozambique is appealing for urgent action to address the challenge of child malnutrition, warning food crisis among children in the ...

DAR ES SALAAM: FORMER President and Chairperson of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), Dr Jakaya Kikwete, has ...

A United States non-governmental organisation, NGO, Africa’s Children’s Fund, ACF, has called on government at all levels invest in the people, especially the children and youths, adding that it was t ...

Rwanda cut multidimensional child poverty nearly in half among 5–14-year-olds—from 25.3% to 11.9% between 2016 and 2024. • Free basic education and expanded rural school access drive this progress. • ...

Deputy Minister Steve Letsike has described teenage pregnancy as a national crisis threatening South Africa’s future, calling ...