Stats SA reports South Africa’s poverty is declining, with 37.9% of citizens affected in 2023 and children remaining the most ...

According to Stats SA’s national poverty lines, the Lower-Bound Poverty Line (LBPL) is capped at R1,300 per person, per month ...

South Africa has made steady progress in reducing poverty over the past 17 years, but the country’s children remain largely ...

Gauteng has experienced the largest increase in poverty between 2015 and 2023, according to a new report by Statistics South ...

WHO warns rising medical costs across Africa are pushing millions into poverty and worsening financial hardship for vulnerable households.

World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said yesterday that reducing poverty and supporting economic development in Africa will be his top priority, along with modernizing the bank’s cumbersome ...

Although the number of people living in extreme poverty decreased to 5.1 million between 2009 and 2023, 10.8 million, almost ...

The African Media Globe (AMG) has called on African Leaders and the African Union to take decisive steps to dismantle economic and governance systems that perpetuate dependency, corruption, and ...

Africans are getting wealthier more quickly than previously believed, according to a new study that also suggests the poorest continent's riches are spreading beyond the narrow confines of its elite. ...

With a G-8 summit and a wave of worldwide protests shining a sudden global spotlight on African poverty, several major American Jewish organizations are taking steps to put the continent’s troubles ...

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 ...

The Korean government has taken corrective action in response to a campaign by a nongovernmental organization to correct ...