SAN DIEGO — A nonprofit that started here in San Diego, helping people on the other side of the world, has grown tremendously since its start in 1987. In fact, Village Enterprise is leading the ...

ZVIMBA, Zimbabwe — For Pelagia Bvukura, who lives in a rural part of north-central Zimbabwe, COVID-19 had always been a “city disease,” affecting those in the capital, Harare, or other, distant big ...

A new report by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has exposed alarming levels of child labour in Uganda's refugee ...

In the rural town of Ngcobo in the former Transkei in the Eastern Cape, an athlete turned philanthropist is working to alleviate the plight of young rural girls – one sanitary pad at a time.

In a statement read out during the second Africa Climate Summit on Sept. 7-8, African bishops said the climate crisis is both ...

The Economic Issues series aims to make available to a broad readership of nonspecialists some of the economic research being produced on topical issues by IMF staff. The series draws mainly from IMF ...

The Poverty Reduction Strategy approach that the World Bank and the IMF established in the late 1990s, while potentially good for African countries, has in fact been undermined by the lending ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rosemary Atieno knew she wanted to find a way to relieve the struggles of daily life that she saw her mother and other women ...

The Journal of Energy and Development, Vol. 48, No. 1/2 (Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023), pp. 279-308 (30 pages) In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the energy access gap between urban and rural populations ...