The document examines the multi-dimensional inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, highlighting economic, social, political, and environmental disparities fueled by weak governance, gender inequities, and systemic challenges.

The 2024 growth actually was slower than we had projected earlier,” said Deniz Igan, division chief of the IMF Research Department.

The impact of air pollution on African populations is under-researched due to limited air quality data and health studies.

Poor governance and incompetence plague South Africa’s public administration, particularly at the local level.

Experts agree that the private sector must play a role in African urbanization, saying African states are too fiscally constrained to fill the investment gap themselves. Rendeavour, a private company with a multibillion-dollar balance sheet, has deep enough pockets to make a difference.

Dr. Joseph Lubega calls sickle cell disease “probably the saddest story of a health problem that you could imagine.” He and his colleagues at Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine are working to change that narrative.

Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.

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The Labour Organisation (ILO)  has highlighted that the labour market in Sub-Saharan Africa is grappling with wider job inequality.

South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people died during a police siege, as a local volunteer described the horror of extracting their bodies from deep underground.

At that point Africa will be home to approximately 2.5bn people, or around a quarter of humanity. And unless Africa finds a way to boost its sagging productivity, it will continue to fall further behind the rest of the world,

The European Union (EU) Commission has allocated €510 million to Nigeria and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa.