Poverty

Living in darkness: Poverty and pollution in oil-rich Congo

Pointe-Noire – Behind their homes is an oil pipeline and above them are high-voltage cables suspended between pylons. A... Read more

12 Oct, 2022

Palma – As jihadist fighters advanced in northern Mozambique, Henriques Laba saw only one route of escape. “We fled... Read more

5 Oct, 2022

Kigali – Residents of one of Rwanda’s biggest slums accused the government of forcibly evicting them from their homes... Read more

18 Sep, 2022

Lagos – It’s midnight. Luxury cars arrive outside Cocoon, a nightclub in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest and most vibrant city.... Read more

31 Jul, 2022

South Africa does not need yet another plan to overcome the challenges of poverty, unemployment, and inequality. That is... Read more

25 Jul, 2022

Johannesburg – South Africa’s former president Thabo Mbeki warned on Thursday that the country faced a time bomb and... Read more

22 Jul, 2022

San Francisco – Talk about an expensive date: a mystery bidder will be spending a record $19 million for... Read more

19 Jun, 2022

Karamoja – In one of Uganda’s poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition... Read more

14 Jun, 2022

Durban – Thulisile Ntobela, once lived in an apartment, but when her rent went up 25%, the unemployed mother of... Read more

24 Apr, 2022

Freetown – Iyesatu Turay, who lives in a sprawling slum of corrugated-iron shacks in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, says... Read more

19 Apr, 2022