World Bank18d
State of the Africa Region 2024 – Education and Skills for Africa’s Future
Africa’s working-age population is growing faster than any other region, driven by progress in child survival over the last two decades. Yet, Sub-Saharan Africa invests less in education per capita ...
Reuters29d
Africa's road map to a bigger, greener power system
Africa's current power development road map bodes well for clean-power supporters ... needed to spur industrial growth and enable the region to fulfil its economic and demographic potential.
Map Accurately Compares Size of Texas to Europe?
A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...
BBC5y
Ethiopia apologises for map that erases Somalia
The Ethiopian foreign ministry said it was unsure how the map had "crept in on the website" Ethiopia's foreign ministry has apologised after a map of Africa on its website incorporated ...
Food security in Africa: Managing water will be vital in a rapidly growing region
Sub-Saharan Africa's population is growing at 2.7% per year and is expected to reach two billion by the year 2050. The region ...
CNBC Africa28d
Which is the only region in the world which will add more than 1bn people to its population by the middle of the century?
Secondly, Africa’s natural wealth is well known, from an abundance of precious metals to 20% of the world’s oil and gas reserves, all of which can help to drive trade partnerships in the ...
UNHCR1mon
Horn of Africa drought emergency
Shamsa Amin Ali, 38, Somali refugee in Kenya The Horn of Africa region continues to experience the longest and most severe drought on record, threatening lives and livelihoods, including millions of ...
Cambridge University Press7mon
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
STEINHART, JEAN-PIERRE CHRETIEN & SHANE DOYLE "'While this book is of significant value to scholars of Eastern and Central Africa and the Great Lakes region, [it] also speaks ... which has lovely flow ...
The Africa Report19d
Sahel Sounds: The record label putting the semi‑arid, coup‑struck region on the musical map
Despite the instability reigning in the region, the music plays on at Sahel Sounds. We believe that Africa is poorly represented, and badly under-estimated. Beyond the vast opportunity manifest in ...
The Globe and Mail1mon
Drought in Southern Africa is behind the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, UN says
Months of drought in Southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in ...
AllAfrica.com7d
Web Story - East Africa Joins Other Regions, Launches Bold Plan to Tackle Widespread Child Malnutrition
The situation is particularly dire in Eastern Africa. "Close to 6 million children under five years old in the COMESA region were stunted or wasted in 2021," revealed Yvonne Kinyanjui from the ...
AllAfrica.com7d
West Africa: RSF Calls on Authorities in the Sahel Region to Sign the Declaration on the Right to Information
Newsrooms in countries across Africa's Sahel region are being ransacked and looted, and many media outlets — especially foreign ones — are now banned. Faced with these serious security ...