With young people under 30 making up more than half of the global population and over 272 million children and youth still ...

A wellness app created by Nneka Mobisson ’04 aims to help Nigerians manage chronic health conditions—while showing that ...

The infographic contains a table listing country names and poverty rates. Zimbabwe is ranked first with a score of 84.2 ...

It’s about whether the continent can shed historic dependencies to turn its mineral wealth into prosperity, without repeating ...

WITH an average daily income of less than 3 US dollar, Kenyans are among the world's poorest, according to the World Bank.The nations studied in 'Our World in Data,' a publication by the World Bank, ...

History is often taught as if progress moves in a straight line—from ancient Greece to Rome, from medieval Europe to the Renaissance, from industrialization to modernity. Africa, in this telling, ...

On the largest civilian hospital ship in the world, Australian volunteers provide life-changing healthcare that is ...

“Water bankruptcy happens when both insolvency and irreversibility conditions are present,” Kaveh Madani, the report’s lead ...

Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda’s capital, ...

[CAIRO, SciDev.Net] Burning of toxic plastic waste as a fuel for cooking, heating, or lighting fires has become common practice in low- and middle-income countries, driven by the absence of basic ...

Sand dredging is reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city, Lagos, and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of ...

Containment of neglected tropical diseases is effective but requires new financing models Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT, ...